We Are Pat Documentary Explores Gender Identity
From Rated LGBT Radio
We Are Pat is a new feature-length documentary exploring the evolution of gender identity and comedy from the 90s to now through the lens of the iconic SNL sketch, It’s Pat. Featuring the now classic character by Julia Sweeney, the film examines Pat’s origins as a joke rooted in cultural anxiety of the 90s around gender while drawing striking parallels to today’s culture wars around transness and queerness. My guest, director Rowan Haber is an aesthetically-minded Writer/Director. An MFA gradu