Building Bridges: Coalitional Formations in BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ Canadian Documentary Cinema of the 1990s
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Abstract
In this dissertation, I argue that Canadian BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ documentarians of the 1990s provided much-needed representations of inclusive cultural formations of different scales, including hybridized identities, relationalities, and socialities. Collectively, these coalitional formations galvanize intersectional, progressive politics that can help us work toward finding liberatory alternatives to extractivist settler capitalism. First, I explore how my deliberately curated corpus speaks to the complexities of individual intersectional identities in the nineties. Each film highlights how, for BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, one’s internal relationship with various aspects of the self animate the complicated intersections of different aspects of personal identity. Individual attachments with multiple cross-cutting identities draw people into community with various overlapping identity groups. My second chapter looks at cultural formations on a meso-scale, imagining how my corpus represents the healing and supportive relationalities that progressive BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ Canadians created in the nineties. These interpersonal relationships empower and include minoritarian Canadians. Finally, I turn to macro-level, institutional collectivities and politics. I argue that each film from my corpus either raises an intersectional and decolonial political consciousness or explicitly documents the political and activist coalitions that minoritarian communities formed in the nineties. The films from my corpus collectively celebrate the lived identities, relationalities, and collectivities that unite diversely situated BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their allies. By engaging in coalitional politics, we can remake the world by aligning feminist, anti-racist, decolonial, 2SLGBTQIA+-affirming, and working-class movements in solidarity. In this way, documentary films of the 1990s can inform and inspire contemporary progressive identity politics, as we work collectively toward building a society that supports the needs of minoritarian communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".