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danita
@danitasteinberg.bsky.social
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I’m in a mood. Writer, film programmer, cryer, spinster, moviegoer, future ghost & a bagel on a plate of onion rolls. She/her. 🎞️👽🌈💆🏻‍♀️😷 📍Toronto
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · 2d
Toronto friends! Masked at the Movies is back on November 25 with the charming, life-affirming, wholesome FACES PLACES. Hope to see you there! 💕

Free tickets and details 👇
Masked at the Movies presents FACES PLACES
A mask-mandatory screening of FACES PLACES (2017).
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4d
This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 2d
TCM published an article about @cadenmgardner.bsky.social and I's upcoming program on their website.

www.tcm.com/articles/Pro...
Trans Images on Film
November 17 & 24 | 11 FilmsWith the recent publication of “Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema,” Turner Classic Movies sheds light on the various perspe...
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · 2d
Toronto friends! Masked at the Movies is back on November 25 with the charming, life-affirming, wholesome FACES PLACES. Hope to see you there! 💕

Free tickets and details 👇
Masked at the Movies presents FACES PLACES
A mask-mandatory screening of FACES PLACES (2017).
www.eventbrite.ca
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · 14d
Toronto friends! The film is still TBD but please put Nov 25 on your calendar for the next Masked at the Movies! 🥰
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hey, if you’re attending #TIFF50 next week, please consider wearing a high quality mask (like a KN95). I don’t want to get sick and I don’t want you to get sick! Let’s keep each other safe from airborne illness this year. Cool? COOL! I promise you no one will care. Always happy to give mask recs! 😷
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 30
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 30
Using my friend’s Jewish name when she is an outspoken anti-Zionist who has been marching for 20 months is really something else.
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 30
I wasn’t going to say anything else beyond my original reply about the event last night but conflating this with what’s happening in Palestine is so out of pocket. Unbelievable.
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 30
Our event started at 6pm. When I arrived at 6pm on the dot, they had the surgical mask on. But yes, a surgical still poses risks and I will mention that next time.
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 30
Yes, for attendees and it’s enforced with free respirators available. This was a venue employee. Next time I will be more clear that folks may encounter surgicals on employees so they can make a more informed decision about attending or not.
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 30
It is respirator-required and enforced for attendees, with free masks available. The person in a surgical was an employee of the venue. Doing my best here! Next time I will inform folks they might encounter surgicals on venue employees so they can make a more informed decision about attending or not
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 30
The person was an employee at the venue. I’m sorry they said that to you. Ultimately, it’s only respirator-mandatory for attendees as it’s a public space - and all attendees were in respirators the entire time. Going forward, I will be clear that folks may encounter unmasked ppl/surgicals inside.
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 28
Toronto friends, Masked at the Movies presents CHICAGO is tomorrow (June 29!) at Innis Town Hall ✨ Doors open at 6, film starts around 6:45. There will be vendors with mask chains and art! FREE to attend! Register below 🫡 www.eventbrite.ca/e/1391840906...
Masked at the Movies presents CHICAGO
A mask-mandatory screening of CHICAGO
www.eventbrite.ca
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 15
Toronto friends, TWO WEEKS until Masked at the Movies presents CHICAGO 🎹 Musicals are one of my greatest joys and I can’t wait to see Cell Block Tango on the big screen for the first time since 2002!!! 🔪 FREE TO ATTEND, register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...
A still from Chicago
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 2
COVID-safe Toronto friends!! Masked at the Movies is back on June 29 with a little extra razzle dazzle for Pride month! 🎹🕺🎷🎶 Free!! www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...
Masked at the Movies presents CHICAGO
A mask-mandatory screening of CHICAGO
www.eventbrite.ca
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · May 26
It is consistently wild to see this rash of pieces on Covid that are all about its origin and its politics, by people continuing to steadfastly ignore that it’s still here, it’s still killing people, there’s a rising mass of disabled people from it, and that all of that is preventable.
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We Really Like Her! 👩🏼🍿👩🏻‍🦱 @wereallylikeher.bsky.social · May 13
We're screening not one, but TWO '90s queer cinema classics at Toronto's Revue Cinema this June 💅🏻🏳️‍🌈📽️

Join us for INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (screenplay by Anne Rice) June 8 and TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (dir. Beeban Kidron) June 12. Both screenings are over 60% sold out!
We Really Like Her! June at Revue Cinema. Interview with the Vampire: June 8, 12:45pm, part of Fang-Tastic Weekend. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar: June 12, 6:45pm.
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K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · May 9
Sorry to "well actually" you, my dearly beloved Fango, but I have to tell you there IS a directory of all the remaining video stores in the world, kept up by yours truly + last updated in January.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · May 6
Writing on the back of this photo from my collection says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.
Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · May 7
being covid-aware and keeping myself safe has me so worn down y’all like I feel like I’m moving through cement to do literally anything 😭 it’s so tempting to just give up (I won’t) but holy hell this gets harder by the day! sending resolve and strength to everyone 💕
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We Really Like Her! 👩🏼🍿👩🏻‍🦱 @wereallylikeher.bsky.social · May 5
Get ready to rock n' roll all night with our screening of THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS (dir. Penelope Spheeris)! 👨🏼‍🎤🔥

This Thursday at Toronto's Revue Cinema! Get tix: revuecinema.ca/films/we-rea...
A pile of posters for '80s hair metal shows, including Faster Pussycat at the Troubadour on Saturday, May 31 Rock star Alice Cooper smiles into the camera while holding a noose Two men with long black hair use a hairspray and a bottle of alcohol to light a fire Two women with teased hair sit in front of a purple backdrop. The caption reads: "sex, drums and rock n' roll."
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · May 5
let’s face it — if wearing a mask was the socially acceptable norm, you’d be doing it. Doesn’t that give you pause even for a second? If I’m wildly off base please tell me but aside from denial, social pressure seems to be the culprit here!
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danita @danitasteinberg.bsky.social · May 5
dude please just wear a mask… giving into social pressure is soooooo embarrassing for you!
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Angelo Muredda @amuredda.bsky.social · May 5
I wrote about Reid Davenport’s funny and infuriating disability and assisted dying doc, LIFE AFTER, for @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social filmfreakcentral.net/2025/05/life...
Life After (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
***½/****directed by Reid Davenport by Angelo Muredda “I’ve done what I can, and the quality of my life is over,” 26-year-old disabled woman and assisted dying cause célèbre Elizabeth Bouvia says in a...
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