Video

Not Tough Enough

Ariella Pahlke and Brenda Barnes

1994, 05:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 185.01

Do all lesbians really wear Birkenstocks, drive pick-up trucks, and play softball? Find out from Brenda and Ariella as they dress up in drag in this campy rock-video - a spoof of a spoof of an already many times appropriated song.

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Critical Writing

The Oxide Mandate: Queer Media in Halifax
by James MacSwain. Queer Looking/ Queer Acting, 1997. Mount St. Vincent: Mount St. Vincent University Press, 1997.
Pahlke debuts video at Peggy's Festival: Queer Video and Film...
by Elissa Barnard. The Mail-Star, June 11, 1994.