"All the Voices That Are Frightening.": FFC Interviews Lizzie Borden - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

by Walter Chaw Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls (1986) was foundational for me. Looking for titilation as a young teen in the VHS age, I found instead a sensitive, uncompromising, unfiltered look at sex work as a blue-collar profession that portrayed sex workers as human beings. Neither revelation should be startling, but for a 13-year-old raised in a culture (two cultures) in which women are largely treated as objects for my consumption, it hit me like a thunderbolt. Ms. Borden shocked me by being aware of my habit of referencing her film in my writing; I’m always surprised when an artist…

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