I love the main cast of this movie. Seret Scott is perfect at portraying a woman who is confident, vivacious, and engaging when she's in her element in the classroom while being so easily dissuaded from that understanding of herself by her husband and mother. Bill Gunn is one of my favorite assholes in fiction. The right amount of charming and smarm with his jealousy and shaky self-confidence oozing out from underneath. Duane Jones owns every single scene he's in…

I watched this in 2000 with my high school girlfriend (long distance, from my nerd summer camp, where I was an out and faggy bisexual) in the basement of the house I grew up in. I was in a glass closet about being queer at school, maintaining vague deniability because it was conservative, rural New York. I never got involved with anybody from there. I left town later that year and never looked back. Being a trans woman was not…