G. Chesler
@g6pictures.bsky.social
filmmaker : professor : lover of pixels and grain (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
News you can use. My documentary, Connection | Isolation on trans lives in Covid is streaming on @kanopy.com Which means it’s free if you’re library carries the streamer! Universities - please request your library purchase through New Day Films. All info at www.g6pictures.com/connection
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
News you can use. My documentary, Connection | Isolation on trans lives in Covid is streaming on @kanopy.com Which means it’s free if you’re library carries the streamer! Universities - please request your library purchase through New Day Films. All info at www.g6pictures.com/connection
Los Angeles! October 19th LA LGBT Center, join me for a screening of Connection | Isolation part of the CIRCA Queer History Festival. I’ll be in a q&a with Composer Luka Fisher and queer studies scholar Eliot “Eli” Dunn following 🏳️⚧️😷 Masks + open captions. Tickets g6pictures.com/connection
September 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Los Angeles! October 19th LA LGBT Center, join me for a screening of Connection | Isolation part of the CIRCA Queer History Festival. I’ll be in a q&a with Composer Luka Fisher and queer studies scholar Eliot “Eli” Dunn following 🏳️⚧️😷 Masks + open captions. Tickets g6pictures.com/connection
Standing with our GMU President and grateful Washington is not bowing to false accusations and politicized, fictionalized charges! A model for what University presidents need to be doing right now.
@jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @katiemangan.bsky.social have been all over the George Mason U. DOJ investigations since they began. Today they broke some news @chronicle.com: GMU president Gregory Washington is digging his heels in and won't be apologizing for DEI work. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
GMU President Refuses to Apologize for Diversity Efforts, Lawyer Calls Ed. Dept. Claims ‘Absurd’
In a 10-page letter, Gregory Washington’s lawyer says the Trump administration conducted an incomplete and haphazard investigation full of “gross mischaracterizations.”
www.chronicle.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Standing with our GMU President and grateful Washington is not bowing to false accusations and politicized, fictionalized charges! A model for what University presidents need to be doing right now.
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The only way to fully protect the rights of DC residents is to make the district a state.
Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_.
Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_.
August 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The only way to fully protect the rights of DC residents is to make the district a state.
Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_.
Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_.
I am devastated. CPB + its divisions have enabled public discourse and helped deepen our cultural understandings. So many brilliant people and our documentary community are horribly impacted by these actions and choices.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
August 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I am devastated. CPB + its divisions have enabled public discourse and helped deepen our cultural understandings. So many brilliant people and our documentary community are horribly impacted by these actions and choices.
Portland premier of Connection | Isolation is one month away and tickets are up! Wear a mask and hope to see you there. I’ll be in discussion with Editor Eli Haan after the screening: tomorrowtheater.org/movies/conne...
April 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Portland premier of Connection | Isolation is one month away and tickets are up! Wear a mask and hope to see you there. I’ll be in discussion with Editor Eli Haan after the screening: tomorrowtheater.org/movies/conne...
Reposted by G. Chesler
Today is the last day that the State Department is taking public comments about its policy denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans
The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...
action.aclu.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today is the last day that the State Department is taking public comments about its policy denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
Tonight! Kansas City screening of Connection | Isolation on trans lives in the COVID pandemic at Stray Cat Film Center. Five years since the emergency declaration, it’s so important to remember, stay connected, and keep insisting on communal care and safe spaces for all. Mask up!
March 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Tonight! Kansas City screening of Connection | Isolation on trans lives in the COVID pandemic at Stray Cat Film Center. Five years since the emergency declaration, it’s so important to remember, stay connected, and keep insisting on communal care and safe spaces for all. Mask up!
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I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages
Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...
docs.google.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
hey virginia and dc - what y’all are going through right now is brutal and i’m thinking of you. i’ll be in town screening a film that is about trans community in the pandemic (i.e. holding together in impossible times) Come out and feel some love (masked up!) 💜 vfs.gmu.edu/events/16532
February 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
hey virginia and dc - what y’all are going through right now is brutal and i’m thinking of you. i’ll be in town screening a film that is about trans community in the pandemic (i.e. holding together in impossible times) Come out and feel some love (masked up!) 💜 vfs.gmu.edu/events/16532
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"The probable purpose of Trump’s executive order is to whip up moral panic around the existence of trans people, but its blow no less impacts intersex people. "
My existence as an intersex American was finally acknowledged, then erased four days later
Federal government now defines sex as 'male' and 'female.'
www.washingtonblade.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"The probable purpose of Trump’s executive order is to whip up moral panic around the existence of trans people, but its blow no less impacts intersex people. "
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Giovanna Chesler's work as a director includes fiction, documentary and experimental films, performance videos, and a transmedia project. These projects are linked through questions of the body, gende...
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January 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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