Pratibha Parmar

Pratibha Parmar is a British-Indian lesbian filmmaker and activist who has been a pioneering voice in queer feminist filmmaking since the early 1990s. She is known for Warrior Marks (1993), a documentary co-created with Alice Walker about female genital mutilation, Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006), and A Place of Rage (1991), which featured Angela Davis and June Jordan. Parmar has been openly lesbian throughout her career and her work consistently brings together queer, feminist, anti-racist, and post-colonial perspectives.