New Queer Cinema x Trans New Weird: Teen Death Drive @ YBCA

Totally Fucked Up x We’re All Going to the World’s Fair: Teen Death Drive

Gay or not, we can all agree: being a teenager SUX. As a weirdo, finding your footing in a world that privileges squares can feel insurmountable. Both Gregg Araki’s Totally Fucked Up (1993) and Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) allow us to experience the mindf***k that is queer teenagedom.

Totally Fucked Up is a series of teen confessionals that stitch together a tapestry of the lives of queer teens in the ‘90s, while We’re All Going to the World’s Fair depicts the nightmare that is becoming during the digital age. Stinky, sexually frustrated, and suicidal, these teens must reckon with their place in the world.