Ayanna Dozier
@dozierayanna.bsky.social
Filmmaker, artist, writer, professor, etc.
Header: Doing it For Daddy (2025)
Header: Doing it For Daddy (2025)
So happy for Onyeka but I think it’s irresponsible for the committee to make them spilt the award. If you’re going to award two winners then fund those winners with the expected amount, you make it happen. This is not touching the fact on how bad it looks for the two Blk artists to have to share.
Morgan Quaintance and Onyeka Igwe have been jointly awarded the 2025 Film London Jarman Award artreview.com/morgan-quain...
Morgan Quaintance and Onyeka Igwe win 2025 Jarman Award
The £10,000 prize will be split equally between the two
artreview.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So happy for Onyeka but I think it’s irresponsible for the committee to make them spilt the award. If you’re going to award two winners then fund those winners with the expected amount, you make it happen. This is not touching the fact on how bad it looks for the two Blk artists to have to share.
London ppl: Go see this movie! I’m also in it for a lil bit, lol.
CALLING ALL LONDON HEADS!
On Thurs 12/18 catch a special UK preview screening of "Revelations of Divine Love" at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social in Clerkenwell!
Followed by a Q&A with yours truly!
Tickets & info ticketlab.app/event/36337#/
On Thurs 12/18 catch a special UK preview screening of "Revelations of Divine Love" at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social in Clerkenwell!
Followed by a Q&A with yours truly!
Tickets & info ticketlab.app/event/36337#/
The Nickel Presents - REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE
. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE(2025, USA, Caroline Golum)Between pandemics, people’s revolts and male institutions, this period film cheekily combines fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets....
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November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
London ppl: Go see this movie! I’m also in it for a lil bit, lol.
I wrote about Angelo Madsen’s A Body to Live in for Film Comment.
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I wrote about Angelo Madsen’s A Body to Live in for Film Comment.
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Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…
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CALL TO ACTION — SAVE CINEMATHEQUE
The NEA’s collapse cut 25% of our funding. Help us raise $50,000 to keep San Francisco Cinematheque alive! Your support sustains 60+ years of experimental film culture.
www.sfcinematheque.org/about/suppor...
#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit
The NEA’s collapse cut 25% of our funding. Help us raise $50,000 to keep San Francisco Cinematheque alive! Your support sustains 60+ years of experimental film culture.
www.sfcinematheque.org/about/suppor...
#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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for blackstar's SEEN journal, i had the honor of writing about becoming the country's largest black film distributor and the history of racist practices that keeps black film distribution locked up in a cyclical prison.
www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/is...
www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/is...
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
for blackstar's SEEN journal, i had the honor of writing about becoming the country's largest black film distributor and the history of racist practices that keeps black film distribution locked up in a cyclical prison.
www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/is...
www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/is...
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With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies
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This weekend I had the pleasure of screening "Revelations of Divine Love" for the esteemed scholars of the International Anchoritic Society & Early Middle English conference at Brandeis! Believe me folks, there is no tougher room than one filled with medievalists! And they dug it!!
September 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This weekend I had the pleasure of screening "Revelations of Divine Love" for the esteemed scholars of the International Anchoritic Society & Early Middle English conference at Brandeis! Believe me folks, there is no tougher room than one filled with medievalists! And they dug it!!
I’ll lead a listening exercise/lecture on Blk women’s sonic sensualities & sufferings at Wendy’s Subway (9/18). I’ll talk about my new manuscript on Blk sx workers’ influence in music culture/honor the 5th anniversary of my book on Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope
www.wendyssubway.com/programs/eve...
www.wendyssubway.com/programs/eve...
Wendy’s Subway
www.wendyssubway.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’ll lead a listening exercise/lecture on Blk women’s sonic sensualities & sufferings at Wendy’s Subway (9/18). I’ll talk about my new manuscript on Blk sx workers’ influence in music culture/honor the 5th anniversary of my book on Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope
www.wendyssubway.com/programs/eve...
www.wendyssubway.com/programs/eve...
tonight (July 29th) I will introduce Batman & Robin, one of my favorite films, at Low Cinema in Ridgewood. I’ll briefly speak on how Schumacher cites and extends on queer cinema of both Pre and Post code Hollywood. Come out, if only for the A/C, lol.
lowcinema.com/tickets/p/eh...
lowcinema.com/tickets/p/eh...
Batman & Robin (1997) — Low Cinema
A stunning ensemble cast — George Clooney, Chris O’Donnell, Alicia Silverstone, Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger — star in easily the most maligned film in the Caped Crusader canon. While it was...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
tonight (July 29th) I will introduce Batman & Robin, one of my favorite films, at Low Cinema in Ridgewood. I’ll briefly speak on how Schumacher cites and extends on queer cinema of both Pre and Post code Hollywood. Come out, if only for the A/C, lol.
lowcinema.com/tickets/p/eh...
lowcinema.com/tickets/p/eh...
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"Hey Caroline, how'd it go with the World Premiere of 'Revelations of Divine Love' at FIDMarseille?"
Your burning question, ANSWERED, over at
@screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/con...
Your burning question, ANSWERED, over at
@screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/con...
Connexions Françaises: Caroline Golum at FIDMarseille 2025
For nearly four decades now, the Cote d’Azur’s foremost festival of experimentation has occupied a cherished niche in the international avant garde filmmaking community. Just down the road a spell fro...
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July 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Hey Caroline, how'd it go with the World Premiere of 'Revelations of Divine Love' at FIDMarseille?"
Your burning question, ANSWERED, over at
@screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/con...
Your burning question, ANSWERED, over at
@screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/con...
I wrote about erotics & process in the work of Paul Mpagi Sepuya for Family Style Magazine. I’m not really into writing art profiles anymore but this was an exception as a photographer I want to be able to be able to dig into process with other photographers.
www.family.style/art/paul-mpa...
www.family.style/art/paul-mpa...
Family Style - A Flash in a Darkroom
Photographer and artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya unpacks his creative and collaborative process.
www.family.style
July 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote about erotics & process in the work of Paul Mpagi Sepuya for Family Style Magazine. I’m not really into writing art profiles anymore but this was an exception as a photographer I want to be able to be able to dig into process with other photographers.
www.family.style/art/paul-mpa...
www.family.style/art/paul-mpa...
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This is exactly why people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy are isolated, harmed or worse, m*rdered.
Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.
Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.
July 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is exactly why people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy are isolated, harmed or worse, m*rdered.
Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.
Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.
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Anti-Blackness performed a work within this case.
This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.
This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.
July 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Anti-Blackness performed a work within this case.
This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.
This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.
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That conflation between s3x w0rk and prostitution is how we get here. This where the whore disfigure enters.
July 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
That conflation between s3x w0rk and prostitution is how we get here. This where the whore disfigure enters.
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For the last six years, I have sat with this work and can share that “The pornographer and the party” has officially been published by Women & Performance journal.
Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍.
#blackstudies
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍.
#blackstudies
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
June 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For the last six years, I have sat with this work and can share that “The pornographer and the party” has officially been published by Women & Performance journal.
Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍.
#blackstudies
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍.
#blackstudies
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
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(5/5) "Though [Ayanna Dozier's] exploration of...the psychosexual trappings of evangelism and the suppression of libidinal desires by belief systems is playful, the link between sex and religion are... explicit: ‘Both acts of submission required me to be on my knees.’"
artreview.com/sex-workers-...
artreview.com/sex-workers-...
Sex Workers Deserve a New Story
The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap
artreview.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
(5/5) "Though [Ayanna Dozier's] exploration of...the psychosexual trappings of evangelism and the suppression of libidinal desires by belief systems is playful, the link between sex and religion are... explicit: ‘Both acts of submission required me to be on my knees.’"
artreview.com/sex-workers-...
artreview.com/sex-workers-...
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The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap artreview.com/sex-workers-...
Sex Workers Deserve a New Story
The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap
artreview.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap artreview.com/sex-workers-...
A great essay by Sophia Satchell-Baeza on my film, writing, and visual art practice on sex work is up on ArtReview. It’s the first long form review of my work to ever be published in an arts journal/magazine so this means a lot. Give it a read: artreview.com/sex-workers-...
Sex Workers Deserve a New Story
The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap
artreview.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A great essay by Sophia Satchell-Baeza on my film, writing, and visual art practice on sex work is up on ArtReview. It’s the first long form review of my work to ever be published in an arts journal/magazine so this means a lot. Give it a read: artreview.com/sex-workers-...
we will NOT be rehabilitating Brownmiller on my watch. Her discourse on rape participates and codifies colonial “common sense” fascist narratives on race and gender essentialism that decry cis white women as a protected class that becomes the cult of “true” femininity.
May 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
we will NOT be rehabilitating Brownmiller on my watch. Her discourse on rape participates and codifies colonial “common sense” fascist narratives on race and gender essentialism that decry cis white women as a protected class that becomes the cult of “true” femininity.
Installation views of my solo exhibition, Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You are now available. The exhibition is on view through May 31st at Microscope Gallery. This Friday (5/16) at 7PM, I will be in conversation with curator Jesse Firestone about the show.
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• Ayanna Dozier: Installation Views
Ayanna Dozier Installation Views
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May 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Installation views of my solo exhibition, Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You are now available. The exhibition is on view through May 31st at Microscope Gallery. This Friday (5/16) at 7PM, I will be in conversation with curator Jesse Firestone about the show.
microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...
microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...
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@dozierayanna.bsky.social 's "Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water", which I play opposite the @cleoouyang.bsky.social, premieres Thursday at The Walker Museum in Minneapolis. Check out this interview with Ayanna in anticipation of the exhibition of her work.
walkerart.org/magazine/my-...
walkerart.org/magazine/my-...
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May 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
@dozierayanna.bsky.social 's "Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water", which I play opposite the @cleoouyang.bsky.social, premieres Thursday at The Walker Museum in Minneapolis. Check out this interview with Ayanna in anticipation of the exhibition of her work.
walkerart.org/magazine/my-...
walkerart.org/magazine/my-...
My second NYC solo show, “Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You,” opens next Thursday (6-8PM) at Microscope Gallery. The show features new photographs on leather (a technique I’ve been working on for 5 years) and three new 16mm films. Hope to see you there 🖤
microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...
microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...
• Ayanna Dozier: Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You
Ayanna Dozier Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You April 24 – May 31, 2025 Opening Reception Thursday April 24, 6-8pmStill from: “Whore in the House of the Lord” (2025), by Ayanna Dozier, 16mm film, 11 ...
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April 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My second NYC solo show, “Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You,” opens next Thursday (6-8PM) at Microscope Gallery. The show features new photographs on leather (a technique I’ve been working on for 5 years) and three new 16mm films. Hope to see you there 🖤
microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...
microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...
I wrote about the experimental films Mano Destra and Kissy Suzuki Suck. Two films by sex workers that examine dominatrixing and street-based encounters. You can read it on @screenslate.bsky.social and then head over to AFA to catch the only screening at 5:15 PM.
www.screenslate.com/articles/man...
www.screenslate.com/articles/man...
Mano Destra + Kissy Suzuki Suck
This essay appears in “Women, Workers, & Whores on Film” Zine with the title “Macho Sluts.”
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April 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I wrote about the experimental films Mano Destra and Kissy Suzuki Suck. Two films by sex workers that examine dominatrixing and street-based encounters. You can read it on @screenslate.bsky.social and then head over to AFA to catch the only screening at 5:15 PM.
www.screenslate.com/articles/man...
www.screenslate.com/articles/man...
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I wrote a short essay on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ for @dozierayanna.bsky.social ‘s “Women, Workers, and Whores on Film” Anthology Film Archives screening series premiering tonight. The alternate title for the Zine is “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E.”
www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...
www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...
Girl 6
This essay has been published in “Women, Workers, & Whores on Film” Zine with the title “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E”
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April 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I wrote a short essay on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ for @dozierayanna.bsky.social ‘s “Women, Workers, and Whores on Film” Anthology Film Archives screening series premiering tonight. The alternate title for the Zine is “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E.”
www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...
www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...