“Bad Form: Queer, Broke, & Amazing!” Film Screening

Please join us on April 3 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Grant Auditorium for the film screening of C.A Griffith and H.L.T Quan’s film, Bad Form: Queer, Broke, & Amazing! Following the film screening there will be a moderated Q&A and a small reception in the lobby. This screening kicks off the two-day DK Symposium. Registration for day two of the symposium is still open and you can register to attend virtually here. The first day’s session will be in Kitteridge Auditorium, HBC.

About the Film:

Bad Form: Queer, Broke, & Amazing! is a documentary that refreshingly challenges the myth of gay affluence and reveals an extraordinary world of resilient, economically struggling LGBTQ+ people who are surviving, thriving and trying to get everyone free. From the Deep South, Arizona, Navajo Nation, queer coastal meccas of the U.S. and points in-between, the film chronicles the lives of more than 80 queer, broke and amazing activists who may be unsung, but you’ll never forget! Featuring nearly 100 interviews, including Angela Y. Davis, Barbara Smith, Clair Farley, Arthur Áviles, Monica Jones, Kenyon Farrow and Mary Hooks, this stunning cacophony illuminates a universal truth about poverty.

About the Artists:

H.L.T. Quan is a political theorist, an award-winning filmmaker and an associate professor in the School of Social Transformation at ASU. Her research centers on movements for justice, and race, gender & radical thought. Her monograph (2012), Growth Against Democracy is a radical critique of modern development thought and policies. Her current book project, Against Tyranny: Ungovernability and Tools for Democratic Living explores will-full resistance to various forms of governing. Through QUAD Productions, C. A. Griffith and Quan produced/directed short and feature documentaries such as Mountains That Take Wing/Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation, América’s Home, and a film about gentrification and displacement in Puerto Rico.

C.A. Griffith is an award-winning filmmaker with more than three decades of film production experience. Trained in New York’s independent film community, Griffith’s credits include the feature film Juice starring Tupac Shakur, PBS and BBC documentaries such as A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (cinematographer), D.A. Pennebaker’s Branford Marsalis: The Music Tells You (camera operator) and Depeche Mode 101 (1st AC), Eyes on the Prize I & II, St. Clair Bourne’s Making ‘Do the Right Thing’ and music videos from Tracy Chapman and Public Enemy to The Rolling Stones. Her screenplays have made the finals of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs and won a top award from the Latino Screenplay Competition.

Our Sponsors:

This event would not be possible without our co-sponsors: CODE^SHIFT, School of Education, Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI), Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA), Lender Center, LGBTQ Studies, Engaged Humanities Network, and the Departments of: Women’s and Gender Studies, History, African American Studies (AAS), Sociology, Communication and Rhetorical Studies (CRS), and Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (LLL).