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What Is an Intimacy Professional?
What Is an Intimacy Professional? An intimacy professional is an umbrella term for someone who uses consent-based methods to craft scenes of intimacy (including but Read more
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Identifying Growing Pains in a Rapidly Expanding Field
Read the Discussion and Conclusion of The 2022 Intimacy Professionals Census Review: Identifying Growing Pains in a Rapidly Expanding Field Read more
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10 Ways To Support Gender Diversity On Set
What is gender diversity and why are we supporting it? Gender diversity is the equitable inclusion and support of all gender identities including trans, nonbinary, Read more
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What Is An Intimacy Coordinator Kit And What Is In It?
First off, let’s define what an intimacy coordinator kit is exactly. An intimacy coordinator kit is a collection of tools an intimacy coordinator uses for Read more
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What Qualifications Should an Intimacy Coordinator Have?
There are several different areas an individual needs to be proficient in in order to effectively intimacy coordinate a film while reducing harm. While each Read more
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Elements of a Nudity Rider
A nudity rider documents and clearly defines the levels of nudity and the intimate actions to be performed in creative projects such as film, television, Read more
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Explaining Psychoanalytic Theory in Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
In the essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey structures her argument around two crucial ideas, titled “Pleasure in Looking/Fascination with the Human Form,” and “Woman Read more
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Gender Construction and the Gaze in Deepa Mehta’s Fire
Deepa Mehta’s film Fire is the love story of two sisters-in-law from New Delhi, India. The first, Radha, is the barren wife of Ashok. She has been in a Read more
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Pubic vs. Public: My Fight with Society and My Body Hair
Curly Goes the waves Cascading down my inner thigh My legs Densely Yet fine enough that I hope no one notices. I remember seeing a Read more
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How The World Is Divided In Two: An Examination Of Social Justice Filmmaking, Economic Investment, Global Autonomy, And Individual Ability
“I didn’t find what I set out looking for. Instead, I found the normal people who were trying to express themselves through a medium which can be heard. Perhaps this is the true social justice… Read more
Bio
Acacia DëQueer (fae/they) co-authored The 2022 Intimacy Professionals Census Review: Identifying Growing Pains in a Rapidly Expanding Field which was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Consent-Based Performance and faer blog post, Elements of a Nudity Rider, has been translated for publication at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz’s Theater Academy in Warsaw, Poland.
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