-dyked- Arielle Faye And Mindi Mink - Under Her... ⏰

Drawing on feminist geographer Gillian Rose’s work on the politics of spatiality (1993), we examine how the film’s central setting—a traditionally furnished, heteronormative home—is systematically transformed into a site of lesbian authority. The titular act of “dyking,” here used as a verb, signifies a structural and symbolic intervention: the literal and figurative reframing of a space designed for patriarchal or hetero-monogamous scripts into an arena for queer control.

From the opening frames, Dyked establishes its protagonist’s (Mink) domain as a pastiche of bourgeois domesticity. The set design features floral wallpaper, a well-appointed kitchen, and a master bedroom with a four-poster bed—what art director Judith Halberstam (in a separate commentary) might call “the visual grammar of compulsory heterosexuality” (2018, p. 44). Mink’s character, initially presented as the aggressor, moves through this space with the ease of a homeowner, but the film’s framing quickly subverts this assumption. -Dyked- Arielle Faye and Mindi Mink - Under Her...

Under Her... Release Date: Not specified Production Company: Not specified Director: Not specified Cast: Drawing on feminist geographer Gillian Rose’s work on