Para Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang, neoyorquina de 28 años, la vida es una representación de juegos malabares entre una prometedora carrera como cirujana y sus responsabilidades como hija obediente. Al igual que la línea 7 del metro que la lleva a visitar a su familia china una vez por semana, Wil está permanentemente en tránsito entre dos mundos. Las expectativas de la sociedad de Flushing, Queens, de la que procede, y su propio deseo de alejarse de ella han logrado que Wil esté satisfecha con la vida paralela que ha optado llevar, a pesar de que ello conlleve un involuntario juego de charadas con su madre viuda y el viejo mundo que ésta representa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Año 1970. El certamen de Miss Mundo se celebra en Londres presentado por Bob Hope, leyenda de la comedia estadounidense. En ese momento Miss Mundo es el programa de televisión más visto en el planeta, con más de 100 millones de espectadores. En pleno directo el recién creado Movimiento de Liberación de Mujeres invade el escenario e interrumpe la retransmisión afirmando que los concursos de belleza degradan a las mujeres. Así, de la noche a la mañana, el Movimiento se hace famoso... Al reanudarse el programa, la elección de la ganadora provoca un nuevo gran revuelo: no es la favorita sueca, sino Miss Grenada, la primera mujer negra en ser coronada Miss Mundo. En cuestión de horas, una audiencia global fue testigo de la expulsión del patriarcado del escenario y del nacimiento del nuevo ideal de belleza occidental.
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a Black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the country, Hurt gathers reflections on Black masculinity from men and women of a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and a host of leading scholars and cultural critics. What results is an engaging and honest dialogue about race, gender, and identity in America. Features bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Kevin Powell, Andrew Young, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, Jackson Katz, and many others.
Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States. The exchange is sometimes dramatic as they lay bare the pain that racism in the US has caused them.
Marsha P. Johnson was a drag queen, sex worker, and LGBT activist who fought at Stonewall and knew Andy Warhol. She was a New York fixture who made her motto her middle name: "Pay it no mind". This documentary about her life includes the last interview she gave before the suspicious circumstances of her death in 1992.
Watch these important conversations by transgender, GNC, and queer masculine-of-center folx and join us in creating a new definition of masculinity.
In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. In this sequel, we hear and see more from those discussions, in which the men talk about about how racism has affected their lives in the United States. We also learn more about the relationships between them, and about their reactions during some of the most intense moments of that discussion.
bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under analysis, she makes a compelling argument for the transformative power of cultural criticism.
A tribute to legendary black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde, one of the most celebrated icons of feminism's second wave.
One Sunday between meals and chores with her family, ten-year-old Leah experiences small but striking moments of longing and loss. A series of reimagined memories, the film offers a meditative and wistful glance into the intersectional identities of being Chinese-Australian.