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Nearly four decades after its initial release, Born in Flames remains a timely reminder of the ongoing need to fight for equality and change.

Ten years after the “Social Democratic War of Liberation” and set in a not-too-distant future New York City, Borden’s science fiction fantasy imagines a coalition of women crossing racial and class divides to rise up to fight for equality. Centred on two pirate radio stations ‘Radio Ragazza’ and ‘Phoenix Radio,’ a Women’s Army responds with action after world-traveling political activist Adelaide Norris is arrested and suspiciously dies in police custody. Through a Marxist lens Borden’s feminist reimagining of America complicates binaries of individualism and community. Queer time in Born in Flames relates to the temporality of revolutionary action and the necessity of community to create change.

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