Nancy Nicol
Nancy Nicol is a professor in the Visual Arts and Art History Department, York University, a documentary filmmaker and the principal investigator for Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights, an international research project that brings together 31 partners in 12 countries to research and document LGBT rights and social movement histories. Her films include the four-part documentary series From Criminality to Equality, (2002-2009) on the history of lesbian and gay rights organizing in Canada; One Summer in New Paltz, A Cautionary Tale, (2008) on the civil disobedience same-sex marriage movement in the USA; Dykes Planning Tykes: Queering the Family Tree (2011) and No Easy Walk to Freedom (2014) on the legal challenge to s. 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the first of the British colonial laws that criminalized ‘crimes against the order of nature’. Nicol's award-winning documentaries have screened widely in international film festivals and are used in universities and colleges internationally. She is currently working on a documentary on the movement for LGBT rights in Botswana, and on a number of participatory video projects with Envisioning partners in Africa and the Caribbean. Nicol’s recent scholarly publications include: Sexual Rights and the LGBTI movement in Botswana by Monica Tabengwa with Nancy Nicol in: Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change. Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds.) London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK. April 2013; Legal Struggles and Political Resistance: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada and the U.S. by Nancy Nicol and Miriam Smith, in Same-Sex Marriage in the Americas, ed. Adriana Crocker, Pierceson and Schulenberg, pub. Lexington, June 2010; Politics of the Heart: recognition of homoparental families, in Who's Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting, ed. Rachel Epstein (Sumac Press, March 2009).
Artist Code: 298
Videography
2015, 70:00 minutes, colour, English, available with English subtitles
2014, 92:00 minutes, colour, English & Hindi with English Subtitles, Closed Captioned
Dykes Planning Tykes: Queering the Family Tree
2011, 60:00 minutes, colour, English
2009, 09:52 minutes, colour, English
2009, 600:00 minutes, colour, English
2009, 91:00 minutes, colour, English
One Summer in New Paltz: A Cautionary Tale
2008, 54:00 minutes, colour, English
2007, 16:50 minutes, colour, English
2007, 16:15 minutes, colour, English
2006, 90:00 minutes, colour, English
Politics of the Heart / La Politique du Cœur
2005, 68:00 minutes, colour, English language version, or French language version
2002, 124:00 minutes, colour, English, also available closed captioned
and that's why I'm leaving (Landscapes and Stories)
2000, 16:00 minutes, colour, English/Tagalog w subtitles
Migrante, stories & songs of Filipino migrant workers
1997, 73:00 minutes, colour, English/Tagalog w subtitles
1994, 62:00 minutes, colour, English
1992, 45:00 minutes, colour, English
1988, 35:00 minutes, colour, English
Struggle For Choice - Part 5: The Legal Battle
1986, 30:00 minutes, colour, B&W, English
Struggle For Choice - Part 4: Restraint / Repression
1986, 31:00 minutes, colour, B&W, English
Struggle For Choice - Part 3 (La luttte pour le libre choix : troisieme partie) Québec (1971-1980)
1986, 37:00 minutes, colour, B&W, English/French
Struggle For Choice - Part 2: Access
1986, 34:00 minutes, colour, English
Struggle For Choice - Part 1: Abortion Caravan
1986, 31:00 minutes, colour, B&W, English
1986, 23:00 minutes, colour, English
Our Choice, A Tape About Teenage Mothers
1983, 37:00 minutes, colour, English
1982, 83:00 minutes, colour, English
1980, 38:00 minutes, colour, English
The Miniature Theatre - Notes From An Unknown Source (A Science Fiction)
1979, 23:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . James Wegg Review, Oct. 14, 2009.
by . Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996.
by . YYZ Books, McGill University, 1995.
by . Broadside - A Feminist Review, May 1987, v. 8, no. 7.
by . Fuse, Nov. 1981, v. 5, no. 8 & 9.
by . Florida Philosophical Review, Summer, v. 8, no. 1.