Riot Acts Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance (2010)

Riot Acts is a transfabulous rockumentary representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians through a firsthand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance This featurelength documentary highlights issues crucial to interviewees such as songwriting voice presentation presenting a body or bodies on stage audiences venues the idea of the spectacle media representation performing gender and notions about drag and the personal as political The film culminates with the notions that identities and bodies are undeniably political and the the trans experience isnt always one of tragedy but one of creativity and joy