ronika mcclain

a thousand bitches is an autobiographical trilogy of short experimental performative films. i view them as simultaneously linear and non-linear. they draw from pop culture, youtube, my writing, my twisted mind, and my experiences. i by no means think that i have a universal experience but i feel my voice can add to the chorus of representation. they’re honestly just one man’s opinion. i feel the need to be deeply vulnerable and deadpan about the things i’ve experienced in an effort to avoid the trauma voyeurism that art about sexual assault sometimes veers into. i began thinking about these videos as ways to montage my ever flowing connections to history, time, culture and identity. i think everything is a text and deserves to be treated like one. i try to represent a voice that i haven’t seen represented that often surrounding multiple kinds of experiences. i am a bi-racial, ex mormon, leather dyke, sexual assault victim, divorcee, abuse survivor and artist. here is my story. i hope you like it. 

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