Movies by Pratibha Parmar
![Reframing AIDS](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mmqhvFXwWmzba4SkOnFG4NjavBW.jpg)
Reframing AIDS
Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this documentary investigates the way in which AIDS has been used by the media and by the government to increase state harassment of gay men and lesbians, black people and women. Framing the problem in terms of a left politic, the tape reveals how both homophobia and puritanism have been responsible for the slow government response to AIDS.
![Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eZGxXRGRtSl8vyRXKsEcsxjWKal.jpg)
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth Century.Walker made history as the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple.
![Wavelengths](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/e5u4R5yBiSIR1cDOcI7ncQg3Gve.jpg)
Wavelengths
A woman searches for emotionally safer sex via gay bars and the internet.
![The Righteous Babes](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zCLW4v56ZU1FZXazgUSEdN74RLv.jpg)
The Righteous Babes
The Righteous Babes shows how the self-affirmative music of young women is renewing the 90's feminism. In the film, audience can experience feminism not in the library but in the rock concert hall. The film shows interviews and performances. In addition, controversial feminists along with American and British women journalists share their views on pop culture.
![Khush](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/dsQ3YCSfW2FRDHAUMNemdCpuEPf.jpg)
Khush
Khush means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians and gay men in Britain, North America, and India, the term captures the blissful intricacies of being queer and of color. Inspiring testimonies bridge geographical differences to locate shared experiences of isolation and exoticization but also the unremitting joys and solidarity of being khush.