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Bender Defenders (2024)
Four members of a queer martial art club “Bender Defenders” in East London get together to celebrate trans people in sports through conversations about the necessity of anger, the pleasure of pain and the inevitability of friendship and joy as main tools of resistance.
🏳️🌈 This powerful non-fiction documentary short explicitly features a prominent queer matrix, tracking a tight-knit community ballroom and combat sports group fighting anti-LGBTQ+ bias.
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