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Hand on the Pulse (2002)
Directed by Joyce Warshow
· 52m
Joan Nestle is the founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City. This documentary traces her life; finding her community in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, celebrating the body in her writings and in her public readings in her black slip, having a lesbian archives in her home for 25 years, participating in the Black civil rights movement as a freedom rider, becoming a feminist, and helping to forge a new queer consciousness through grass roots organizing. This 2002 documentary features interviews with Joan in her sixties, as she continues to celebrate the body as an aging woman and as a woman with cancer.
Crew
- Director
- Joyce Warshow
Details
- Release date
- 2002-08-10
- Runtime
- 52m
- Original language
- EN