A tender and passionate afternoon make-out session climaxes in intense, consensual amputee sex between two self-identified fat bodied genderqueer women, in the short film Wall of Fire by partners Lisa Ganser and Nomy Lamm.

Between paddles and penetration, the sex and connection they share poses an honest and unfiltered look at what it’s like to love someone as we see ourselves. This vision challenges conventional beauty standards, subverting gender, sexuality, and self, while, as the film’s creators say, exposing what it means to “work with what we got (or not).”

Author and fat-activist Virgie Tovar says of the film:

“What makes the film so powerful is that it offers a critique of the ideas and representations of fat bodies and disabled bodies in not only mainstream but also queer media and discourse. Beyond its value as an arousing and intimate portrait, this film has clear political significance as a documentation project. Lisa archives this typically hidden or absent-from-public-memory narrative around the disabled body, the fat body and the multiplicity of queer sex.”

Not to be left out is the beautiful original score by Nomy Lamm. Wall of Fire was completely underwritten and funded by feminist sex shop the Smitten Kitten.

The film has screened at the San Francisco PornFilmFestival, Un(dis)sing Our Abilities, and QCC’s National Queer Arts Festival, among many others.

Wall of Fire is not available online. If you’re fortunate to be able to catch a screening, please go!