Libertalia's "Women vs Today and the Everyday: February Friday Film Series"

Saw this film series and am really excited for it, figured I'd share with y'all.

From Libertalia's Facebook event:












A film series that looks at the struggles that contemporary women face, struggles that are often ignored, dismissed or accepted. Do the different forms of feminism and women's movements of the past help us deal with today's conditions, or can we find new ways to address and oppose new forms of both visible and invisible oppression?


Feb. 1 – Letters from the Other Side (2006)

A documentary focusing on the lives of women in Mexico whose lives are destroyed by the effects of NAFTA, immigration, and the violence of globalization.

For more information: http://www.sidestreetfilms.com/


Feb. 8 – Killing Us Softly 4 (2010) / Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded (2011) / The Souls of Black Girls (2008)

These three short documentaries address various and constant forms of media control over women's bodies and self-image, from a critique of advertising to the even more toxic feedback presented to women of color.

For more information: http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2010/10/killing-us-softly-4-advertisings-image-of-women.html

http://www.asianwomenunited.org/slaying-the-dragon-reloaded-2011/

https://www.createspace.com/256654



Feb. 15 – The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde (2002)

A documentary film created after the I AM YOUR SISTER CONFERENCE in honor of black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde, in which 1200 activists from 23 countries came together to celebrate and support Lorde's vision of liberation.

For more information: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c621.shtml



Feb. 22 – Women Without Men (2009)

Magical realism set against the backdrop of the 1953 CIA-led coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister. Banned in Iran, this film centers on the lives of four women and the real ways in which human rights, civil rights and women's rights are often more mythical than fiction.

For more information: http://womenwithoutmen.blog.indiepixfilms.com/


"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde


Fridays in February at 7 pm.

The films will be followed by snacks, coffee, tea and discussion.

Suggested donation $3-5, but no one will be turned away.