Can we look at that video?

Dictactics?

Yeah!

Yeah.

This is Lisa Silverstein, an experienced developer at the Oakland Museum of California, just down the street from me.

She's showing me around their current exhibition called Queer California Untold Stories.

This is a really important film by Barbara Hammer.

It's her and her friends,

it's frallicking nude in nature.

That's the first part of the video, and the second part is her and her lover having sex.

And she called it Dictactics because sort of like, uh, didactics to like show people what it was to be a lesbian.

There are more films and zines and costumes and posters on display,

as well as the original Pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker,

and a photography project chronically queer separatist communes out in the countryside.

The fantasies of Utopia that are not some heubristic quest to mold the world.

These dreams of Utopia are from necessity by groups of people who wanted to claim some autonomy when the world wouldn't grant it to them.

There's an amazing spread in here of a self- photographs of a self-defense class where everyone's nude.

But one of my favorite things in this exhibit is a board game.

It's called the Rainbow Game, spelled with a G-A-Y-Gay,

and it was originally designed in 1992.

For this exhibit, two artists, Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Nika Ross,

took this board game and blew it up and printed it on a rug,

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