In Plain Site (2021)

In Plain Sight is a documentary film about LGBTQ women in the rural upper Midwest who want to stay. Contrary to dominant ideas that position rural places as backwards, conservative, and homophobic, the women in In Plain Sight feel safe, supported, and happy. The film asks how we have come to imagine what life is like for LGBTQ people in rural places—and provides an opportunity to imagine it otherwise. 

Created on a shoe-string budget and by working primarily with undergraduate students, In Plain Sight both shares ideas I develop in my book Visibility Interrupted and makes new interventions beyond those that the book offers. For more extended reflections on making the film and its relationship to arguments I develop in my book, please see the concluding chapter of Visibility Interrupted. 

In Plain Sight has been screened at several film festivals and universities and is being distributed by Films Media Group.