Linn da Quebrada – Bixa Travesty #Berlinale2018

February 21, 2018

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Linn da Quebrada, actress of the documentary Bixa Travesty.

Linn da Quebrada is a force of nature, a straight talking, charismatic persona with solid ideas about what she is, what she wants to be and the freedom she wants and asks for in order to be herself. In the film about her life and her work she opens up, she reveals and explains the evolution of her personal and artistic world.

Bixa Travesty: Linn da Quebrada is a black transwoman from impoverished periurban São Paulo; she is also a pop performer who raises her voice for queers of colour from the favelas. Accompanied by her childhood friend and partner in crime, black transwoman and singer Jup do Bairro, her concerts are nothing short of dazzling. Aided by exorbitant costumes and plenty of twerking, her performances are onslaughts of electro against Brazil’s white heteronormative gender order and the machismo of the country’s funk scene. Private moments reveal her gentler side: as she showers with friends or cooks with her mother the talk turns to love, racism and poverty. Archive footage in the shape of home videos shows her in intimate performances at a hospital during her own cancer treatment. We begin to realise that Linn uses radical nudity as a means to undermine accepted gender roles. This documentary also shows her in dramatised radio interviews in which she powerfully espouses her convictions about feminism and her transsexuality: not for Linn the role of a cis woman; she’d rather be a woman with a penis whose gender identity is not bound by her genitalia but is in a permanent state of flux.

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