Brown Queers developed out of a need to create a docufiction of intersectional identity through multiple personas and styles in 2016, when the footage for this film was gathered over an 8-month period. The protagonists of Brown Queers, Krishna Istha, Kasra Jalilipour, Natasha Lall and Umber Ghauri are gender fluid/non-binary, and all identify as brown and queer. Beyond this, complexities related to nationality, race, class, gender and sexuality play out through their bodies and in the different contexts in which they live and work. Several years on, the film is a record (time capsule) of these individuals within the context of the UK. Brown Queers poses questions that come out of the layered states of being that embody fluidity, “brownness” and “queerness”. Behind the camera, is Williams Gamaker, whose own queer self-expression is more muted, but nonetheless present through her intergenerational allyship and content of her many of her films.
