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Faculty Film Screening: Yours in Sisterhood with Irene Lusztig

Tue, May 22, 2018, 7:00 pm
Location: 
Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C)

Join us for a film screening  screening with Director, Irene Lusztig in-person

What might be revealed in the process of inviting strangers to act out and respond to 1970s feminism forty years later? Between 2015 and 2017, hundreds of strangers in communities all over the US were invited to read aloud and respond to letters from the 70s sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine–the first mainstream feminist magazine in the US. The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations that emerge from these spontaneous performances make us think critically about the past, present, and future of feminism. YOURS IN SISTERHOOD is a collective portrait of feminism now and forty years ago that is newly urgent in the aftermath of the 2016 election–a project about time travel, embodied listening, empathy, public discourse, and the lost art of letter writing.

with Respondents:

  • BETTINA APTHEKER (Feminist Studies) 
  • MEGAN C.MOODIE (Anthropology) 
  • MADHAVI MURTY (Feminist Studies)

For more information about the film: http://yoursinsisterhood.net/

 For more info about the event or for accommodation requests, please contact film@ucsc.edu or 831-459-3204

 Free and open to the public