For the last post, I went to see the screening which was held in the Whitney Museum. This 64 min film was called “SHAKEDOWN”, directed by Leilah Weinraub who was born in Los Angeles, showed this dreamlike, intoxicating portrait of Los Angeles’s African American lesbian strip club scene in which the network of female performers attached to a weekly party called Shakedown take center stage. This film certainly gave me a different perspective in which how the sexual display was built and the desiring gaze of queer women of color in this utopian community. This was one first time watching the film which was related to the topic of queer African-American women in the strip club and certainly made me think a lot of how the queer community was behaving during the 90s and up until now. After seeing behind the scenes of the dancers trying to make their way of living, I feel these rarely untold stories gave me more appreciation on queer women of color, and how the existence of this club played a major position inside a lot of people’s life in their community. The way how the director was shooting the film with all low lighting made the dancers’ appearances more mysterious and wanted to know more about their stories which were ignored by the mass media and I feel we certainly should get to know more about the community in various perspectives and understanding their thoughts and life experiences.