Liad Hussein Kantorowicz - Terrorist Superstars - trailer

What can we do when our struggles fail? Can marginalized, othered bodies from different political struggles learn from each other’s failures? “Terrorist Superstars” starts at a point in time where the black liberation movement and the Palestinian liberation movement meet: Black Lives Matter and the Intifada of the Knives. Zigzagging through points of intersection and comparison between both movements, two iconic women who’ve been branded as terrorists and paid a price for failed participation in their struggles enter the frame: Assada Shakur and Leila Khaled. Between them emerges a third figure: queer, feminine and non-identitarian, embodying the multitude of positionalities of her predecessors and rejecting them at once. The figures are strung together through queer-feminist performative tactics: from the lo-fi of trash- bags-and-plastic-clad outfits to bad vogueing and pop music. Those highlight non-conforming queer bodies performing otherness as a form of resistance and defiance to