Pottenkijkers x DykeHouse Press: Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism (1995)

On May 25th, Pottenkijkers and DykeHouse Press take over Filmtheater de Uitkijk for a night dedicated to leather, kink and lesbians. We will read from Leatherdyke Love Letters, the latest zine by DykeHouse Press, and screen Michelle Handelman's landmark documentary BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism (1995).
During the early 1990s, San Francisco was the epicenter of body modification and gender nonconformity. Transgender pioneers were fighting for visibility, and a bold S/M community was carving out space on its own terms. BloodSisters was the first film to represent this queer community on the fringes, featuring the players who started the current conversation on gender fluidity and radical sexuality. Shot on digital video from the inside of this scene, BloodSisters captures these queer outlaws in their zeitgeist moment with an unfiltered rawness that mirrors the activism of that era.
From pushy bottoms to macho femmes, BloodSisters is an A-Z documentary guide that shatters assumptions about gender and lesbian sexuality, and follows a group of self-identified leatherdykes through S/M practices and terminology, the 1993 March on Washington, the San Francisco International Ms. Leather pageant, and the New York City Pride March.
DykeHouse Press is a zine project publishing lesbian poetry, love letters and illustration, edited by Parel Joy. Their latest publication, Leatherdyke Love Letters, brings together nine contributors writing about lesbian leather and kink culture — intimate, sharp and very much worth reading aloud.

• Language: Engels
• Duration: 90 mins.
• Director: Michelle Handelman
• Cast: Skeeter, Rainbeau, Pat Califia
• Year: 1995
• Country: United States