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Hooligan Sparrow
Women’s rights activist, Ye Hiayan (AKA Hooligan Sparrow), holds a sign which reads, “All China Women’s Federation is a Farce. China’s Women’s Rights are Dead.” Source: https://hooligansparrow.com/...
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Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
(image from amazon.com) This two part documentary was designed by activists and community organizers directly impacted by the violence of incarceration, as a tool to educate communities about the...
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Strong Island (2017)
Source: delmarvalife.com Filmmaker: Yance Ford Year: 2017 Running Time: 107 minutes Country of Origin: United States Streaming: Netflix Synopsis: Filmmaker Yance Ford, in this achingly personal...
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Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (1989)
Image Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098414/ In Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (1989), Trinh T. Minh-Ha deconstructs the idea that documentary reveals the “real world,” especially within the...
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Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism (Virginie Despentes, 2009, France, 85min) Punk Porn Feminism is a queer feminist documentary that tells the radical pro-sex work and pro-porn stories of 1990s and 2000s...
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Spirits of Rebellion: Black Independent Cinema from Los Angeles
(Spirits of Rebellion, Zeinabu Davis, 2017) Zeinabu Davis, director of Spirits of Rebellion, was one of the black filmmakers and media artists known as the Los Angeles Rebellion. In this documentary,...
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Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Women involved in the Second Wave Feminist movement in the USA reflect on their experiences as self-identified feminists. The documentary is centered around a 1977 photobook containing photographs of...
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Khush
(still from Khush where two women look directly into the camera as a clip from a Bharatanatyam performance is projected behind them) Synopsis: “What do you enjoy the most about being gay? Two things:...
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Trapped
Trapped, written, directed, and produced by Dawn Porter, a 1988 Swarthmore graduate, follows abortion providers in the American South as their clinics are targeted by right-wing lawmakers. The...
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Freeheld
Laurel and Stacie Freeheld is about New Jersey police officer Laurel Hester and her partner Stacie. Laurel is dying of lung cancer and wants to transfer her benefits to Stacie. Counties can extend...
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