Radical Itty Bitty Titties

Oooooooooh AGLIFF is so much fun. Leztastic is a word that comes to mind. Also: Gaysplosion!

Yesterday I saw Jamie Babbitt's new film Itty Bitty Titty Committee and boy did this feminist, Le Tigre-loving nerd FLIP OUT!

IBTC chronicles the radical feminist awakening of Anna (played by Melonie Diaz). Anna joins a group known as Clits In Action (that's C(I)A to you, bubbeleh) at the behest of the group's blondest and most manipulative member, Sadie (played by Nicole Vicius). The C(I)A counts a transman, a butchie lesbian, and a straight (maybe?) woman named after feminist foremother, Shulamith Firestone, amongst it's membership. The C(I)A get their political rocks off by staging protest actions – i.e. placing a statue of Angela Davis in a memorial plaza, spray painting on the doors of plastic surgery clinic (where Anna works as a receptionist). IBTC is 1970's politics grafted onto the Noughty generation. Anna struggles to be accepted and loved by the manipulative Sadie, who already has a gay-rights-lobbying girlfriend... and in the process helps add the the bad blood that briefly breaks up the C(I)A – making very real the greatest axiomatic line to come from second-wave feminism "The personal is political!" Don't be fooled, though, the film isn't about radical action, coalition-building, communal living, or even a politics of current feminist thinking – instead it's a wonky love story that finds everyone happily making out by film's end. Sure, making out is pretty radical (in the "Duuuude, That's RADical"-sense and the Redstockings-sense), but is that all we really wanna do?

Oh and Guinevere Turner was on hand to gossip and talk-back after the film. We just about wet our panties! And may the Gay Place just say: Guinevere, ye of Go Fish and L Word fame, you are a gem! And so cute! (And my editor says, "Rrrowr!")

Side note: The film boasts a score by Le Tigre and various queer rock outfits: GRRRRRRRRRL!