Oct6
Popcorn & Pop-culture
Feminist Movie Night
Thursday, October 6, 2022 5:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Room 240K
Johnson Center, Room 240K
Join us for a Feminist film & discussion afterwards!
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Feminist Movie Night
Join us for a Feminist film & discussion afterwards!
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Featuring Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, whose work embodies the extremes of a woman's life under brutal colonial regime, this event will be held in the Gillespie Gallery amongst the backdrop of current school of art artist-in-residence Abdulrahman Naanseh. Including readings by SWANA poets: Zeina Azzam, Danielle Badra, Holly Mason Badra, Zein El-Amine, & Leeya Mehta.
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In Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020, Elisabeth Griffith presents a sweeping, diverse perspective on what happened after women won the right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, because it was an incomplete victory.
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Re-examine feminist theory through a South Asian lens using ancient sculpture, mystic folk poetry, philosophy and more with Anu Aneja, author of Feminist Theory and Aesthetics Within: A Perspective from South Asia. Sponsored by Women and Gender Studies.
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In LaNitra Berger’s sweeping book, Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color, she examines how a white artist became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Register for free: https://cglink.me/2d7/r1641499 Sponsored by Women and Gender Studies, and African and African American Studies.
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Rajika Bhandari’s memoir, America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility, explores the travails of international students in the U.S., the web of immigration they must navigate, and Bhandari's journey as a woman of color and Asian American immigrant. Sponsored by Women & Gender Studies and African & African American Studies.
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Unapologetic illuminates the love underpinning the anger and frustration that comes with being Black, queer women in the US, and elevates those who are most often leading the way while being denied the spotlight.
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Goalkeeper Briana Scurry’s stats are impressive: she’s a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, first female goalkeeper and only Black woman in the Hall of Fame, and part of the legendary Women’s World Cup ‘99ers. She’s broken barriers of trauma as she healed mentally and physically from a soccer-related head injury that left her “temporarily totally disabled.” My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper is the powerful memoir that tells this story. Teammate and fellow legend Mia Hamm says, “Everybody knows Bri was one of the greatest keepers in the history of women’s soccer. When you read My Greatest Save, you will find out that her heart and courage were every bit the equal of her ball-stopping skills.” Sponsored by the City of Fairfax.
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In October of 1990, a group of women in Hyannis, Massachusetts started the first Clothesline Project to raise awareness about dating and domestic violence. Today, Clothesline Projects all over the world remind people of the real meaning of violence statistics. Each shirt represents a survivor or victim of sexual and interpersonal violence. During Dating/Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we display the Clothesline Project to bear witness and offer our support to survivors. Check back soon for updates!
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Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobiles in India
Join the CSSR Urban Research Hub for a book talk with Tarini Bedi as she discusses her book, Mumbai Taximen. In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary trade for more than a century. While most understandings of automobility remain tied to Western assumptions, patterns of driving, (sub)urbanization, and engagements with the road, realities in the Global South differ. Mumbai Taximen provides a correction to this imbalance from Mumbai through a timely exploration of South Asian social, material, political, labor, and technological histories and practices of motoring and automobility.
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The Slow Hustle is nominated for a 2022 Emmy Award. The film chronicles the still unsolved death of Baltimore police detective Sean Suiter, fatally shot in 2017 while in the line of duty, and explores the ongoing speculation about what really happened that day.
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George Mason University is closed in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
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