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Deadline reports Paris is Burning is part of Ava DuVernay's carefully curated Cinema and Conversation series Array 360 for 2025 

The New York Times named Paris is Burning as one of the 50 Best Movies on HBO MAX right now Oct 2 2025

Deadline reports 2025 grants from the Jewish Film Institute, including for Earth Camp One. Aug 2025

New York Times critic AO Scott listed Paris is Burning as one of his ten best films of all time. Dec 11 2022

Paris is Burning was listed by The Washington Post on September 9, 2022 as a top 24 film assigned to colleges, listed next to Singing in the Rain and Apocalypse Now. Sept 9, 2022

Paris is Burning is in the Stories of Cinema exhibit at the Academy Museum.

Here's LA Times film critic Justin Chang on how the museum is changing film history

Jennie’s March 2021 interview on BBC's Witness HistoryMarch 15, 2021

Esquire's Emma Carey and Brady Langmann discuss Paris is Burning as a documentary that will Change Your LifeFebruary 26 2021

New York Times columnist Charles Blow on life, death, health, and happiness, invoking the wit and wisdom of Dorian Corey. April 18 2021

In a Jezebel interview Jennie discussed the legacy of Paris is Burning. February 28, 2020

Listen to WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart interview Jennie and Sol Williams Pendavis. February 25, 2020

Jennie spoke with Interview Magazine about why Paris is Burning is “The History Lesson Americans Need.” June 18, 2019

The New York Times's Cassidy George interviewed Jennie about 'Paris is Burning' and its influence on today's LGBTQ media landscape. June 12, 2019

Jennie was interviewed by CherryPicks on Capturing the Spark of 'Paris is Burning'. June 4, 2019

The Verge's Noel Murray breaks down 'Paris is Burning's influence on the FX drama series Pose, on which Jennie serves as a Consulting Producer, encouraging readers to Get ready for Pose by watching Paris is Burning." June 1, 2018

Wesley Morris includes Paris is Burning alongside Princess Mononoke, Do the Right thing, and Die Hard in "12 Films to See Before You Turn 13," a special kids-only section of the New York Times pullout.  November 19, 2017

PBS's Independent Lens' "LGBT Movies That Rocked Their World" reflects on the legacy of "Paris is Burning" as a touchstone of queer cinema   June 10, 2017

Paris is Burning has been added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry. New York Times  December 14, 2016

AV Club published a write up about Paris is Burning and the other 24 films added to the National Film Registry   December 14, 2016 

Jennie weighs in for a sidebar to Frank Rich's New York Magazine article on Todd Haynes' film "Carol"   November 18, 2015 

Jennie discussed their work on Earth Camp One, Paris is Burning, and their show at AMP Gallery with Provincetown MagazineJune 3, 2015 

In an interview with Manohla Dargis for the New York Times, Jennie, along with Ava DuVernay, Barbara Streisand, Joey Soloway, Kimberly Peirce, and others, weighs in on the topic of women in filmJanuary 21, 2015 

Jennie wrote this for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival website. The blog piece kicked off the festival's Freefail event, on the uses and meaning of failure, which included a panel with festival founder Robert Redford and director Joey Soloway (Transparent)  January 22, 2014

A book on the making of, critical response to, and influence of Paris is Burning: Paris is Burning a Queer Film Classic, Lucas Hilderbrand, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014 (first volume in a series, Queer Film Classics) 

8 Music Videos that Pay Homage to ‘Paris is Burning,’ Saeed Jones, buzzfeed.com  February 7, 2013

In The Works: New Doc from Paris is Burning" Director, Bryce J. Renninger, Indiewire.com  January 6, 2011

Octavia St Laurent's last interview, Petter Wallenberg, Dazed 2009.

An interview with Jennie Livingston by Dena Seidel, Films for the Feminist Classroom, volume 1, number 1, Rutgers University  2009

Five Questions for Jennie Livingston, Director of Paris is Burning and Who’s the Top?, Eugene Hernandez, indiewire.com  August 6, 2005

Home, Houses, Nonidentity: Paris is Burning, Chandan C. Reddy, Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity, Westview Press  1997

Queens of Language Jackie Goldsby, Queer Looks, Routledge  1993

The Slap of Love: Michael Cunningham on Angie Xtravaganza  December 1993

Gender is Burning Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter, Routledge 1993

Hurray for you Manfred Hermes, Konkret  October 1991

Paris is Burning, Michelle Parkerson The Black Film Review vol. 6., no. 3

Paris is Burning Illusions Were Never So Real Essex Hemphill, The Guardian  July 3, 1991

Tanz der Beleidigten, Bodo Fründt, Suddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 254  November 4, 1991.

Realness, The Current Cinema, Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker Magazine  March 25, 1991 

Dressed to Thrill, Entertainment Weekly  April 5, 1991

Jennie wrote about gender and the ball world in Aperture, The Body in Question 1988

A Gay Subculture is Poignant Under Scrutiny, Jennifer Dunning, Dance Section, The New York Times  March 23, 1991 

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