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Dream Homes film screening at anthology film archives

Join us at Anthology Film Archives for a screening of Dream Homes, a 30-minute documentary film featured in Cooper Hewitt’s Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, exploring communal living within three LGBTQIA+ collectives across the nation—Lupinewood, Ten of Cups Farm, and House of GG. Co-directed by PIN–UP publisher Michael Bullock and filmmaker Michael Cukr, the film reimagines home and kinship, highlighting solidarity, community, and new domestic models.

After the screening, stay for a thoughtful discussion with the filmmakers and multigenerational representatives featured in the film including Miss Major from House of GG, Terran Rainer of Lupinewood, Cait Rippey of Ten of Cups Farm, co-director Michael Bullock, and moderated by writer, critic and artist Journey Streams. Together, the group will discuss how their communities cultivate a profound sense of home while defying mainstream norms that often exclude queer people.

On your way into the theater, grab a copy of Cooper Hewitt’s Hive Zines centered around the theme of dream homes and safer spaces. The issue was designed by teens from the museum’s Design Hive program who worked closely with the PIN–UP team.

Please note: This program is located offsite at Anthology Film Archives movie theater. See address and location information below.

SPEAKERS 

Michael Bullock is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and documentary filmmaker focused on art, design and queer culture. He is the author of Roman Catholic Jacuzzi (Karma 2012), the editor of Peter Berlin: Artist, Icon, Photosexual (Damiani 2019), and co-editor of I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean Delear (Semiotext(e) 2023). Bullock serves as associate publisher of PIN–UP and The Whitney Review of New Writing and is a contributing editor to apartamento.

Miss Major is a veteran of the historic “Stonewall Rebellion” and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader, author and human rights activist. She is simply “Mama” to many in her community. Her personal story and activism for Transgender civil rights intersects TLGB struggles for justice and equality from the 1950’s to today. At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her gurls, Trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons.

Terran Rainer is a founding member of Lupinewood Collective, a queer and trans collective of artists and organizers living in and fixing up a dilapidated mansion for community use in western Massachusetts. Through Lupinewood, Rainer runs a free weekly program for low-income children and a solidarity program with currently and formerly incarcerated LGBTQ folks. He is also secretary for Lupinewood Institute, the nonprofit wing of Lupinewood that hosts a community recording studio and community print shop, and provides start-up money and support to organizers starting new grassroots projects in a collective context.

Cait Rippey is an artist, parent, class traitor, psychiatrist, and farmer. She is one of the creators of Ten of Cups Farm, home to a queer and trans family woven together by love, conflict, and an enduring thirst for liberation. It has been her lifelong project to imagine and organize for the new world by stretching and breaking the bars that keep collective reality trapped and stagnant. This project has led her down many paths that have woven a life full of hard play, hard work, authenticity, connection, and healing.

Journey Streams is a writer, critic, and artist based in Brooklyn. Her first book, an oral history of the Brooklyn DIY community center, The Spectrum, is forthcoming through Semiotext(e) in 2026.

 

 

AccessibiliTy & What to Expect

  • Format: The program will begin with a brief welcome then the 30 minute film will screen. After the screening, the speakers will engage in a moderated conversation. 
  • About the space: This program will take place offsite at the at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003. 
  • Accommodations: For any questions about accessibility, please email us at cheducation@si.edu.

Support 

Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial is presented in collaboration with Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. This project received federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum; the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino; the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center; and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Generous support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Support is also provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Edward and Helen Hintz; re:arc institute; the Keith Haring Foundation; the Lemberg Foundation; Maharam; and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

 

Image: PIN-UP, Installation of “Dream Homes” in Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution