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hmongthrills:

My Way Home

MY WAY HOME is a documentary film that chronicles a young Hmong - American woman’s journey to reconnect with her past. Born in the jungles of Laos but raised in the United States, twenty-two year old Hmong filmmaker Dao Chang wants to make films about her culture. The only problem is she doesn’t know much about it. Seeking information about the war that changed her family’s destiny and her mother who died in a refugee camp, Dao turns to her father, who protects her from the past. Desperate for answers, Dao travels to Laos in search of an aunt who stayed behind. What she finds is far from what she imagined.

(via stopwhitewashing)

'Black Girls Code' demonstrates non-profit's dedication to girls of color»

The film begins with founder Kimberly Bryant discussing the non-profit organizationBlackGirlsCode, started in April of 2011 in the San Francisco area. BlackGirlsCode teaches technology and computer programming skills to girls of color aged seven through seventeen.

Many young women of color are interviewed and regarded as the main focus of this documentary, just as they are the main focus of the non-profit organization itself. Students are shown working at computers in classrooms throughout the film; they are engaged and interested in their lessons. The students discuss a range of ideas such as building their own websites, coding skills, learning from the educators at BlackGirlsCode, and their own career aspirations.

Read more at: http://www.examiner.com/review/black-girls-code-demonstrates-non-profit-s-dedication-to-girls-of-color

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I got dressed in my traditional Indian regalia, but there was a man, he was the producer of the whole show. He took that speech away from me and he warned me very sternly. “I’ll give you 60 seconds or less. And if you go over that 60 seconds, I’ll have you arrested. I’ll have you put in handcuffs.”

- Sacheen Littlefeather in Reel Injun (2009), dir. Neil Diamond.

(via feministmonsta)

July 18th: Screening of HBO documentary film '12th & Delaware'»

On Wednesday, July 18th, Chicago Abortion Fund will be showing the HBO film 12th & Delaware. This event will take place at Jane Addams Hull House Museum in Chicago. The documentary will run from 6 PM until 8 PM. There is no cover charge for this film screening but donations will be accepted at the door.

12th & Delaware is a documentary film about an abortion clinic and a crisis pregnancy center operating directly across the street from one another in the town of Fort Pierce, Florida.

Read more at: http://www.examiner.com/article/july-18th-screening-of-hbo-documentary-film-12th-delaware

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tomorrowmag:

Tonight in Los Angeles: The world premiere of A Missionary Position at the REDCAT. It’s a one-man show by Ugandan-American artist Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine about the homophobia tearing through his country.

According to the write-up, the show “reveals Uganda’s LGBT community as seen through the eyes of a Ugandan government official, a transgender sex worker, a gay priest and a lesbian activist, and creates a complex investigation of the burgeoning resistance to state-supported oppression.”

Mwine has spent months documenting the LGBT-right movement in Uganda with video, photography and drawing, and in the past he’s created other shows and collaborated on documentaries about the struggle.

—Zak

Aw man, I want to see thisssssssss

“Loving Story” Doc Tells Tale Of Jim Crow Era Interracial Marriage

My belated Valentine’s Day- related post for ya’ll :’) I normally ignore the holiday, but this is something that I think should be shared any time of the year <3

The white bricklayer from Virginia defied stereotypes and centuries of racist laws when he married Mildred Jeter, who was black and Native American. Convicted of violating a law against interracial marriage, the Lovings fought for their rights and won a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that struck down such bans nationwide.

Their lives are explored in a new documentary, “The Loving Story,” which premieres Tuesday on HBO.

Today, there are more than 4 million “mixed marriages” in the United States, and roughly one in seven new marriages are between people of different ethnicities. But in 1958, when the Lovings’ marriage was ruled illegal and they were banished from their native Virginia, 21 states outlawed interracial unions.

“The Loving Story” details the couple’s nine-year battle to live in Virginia as man and wife. Using evocative photographs, newly unearthed footage and interviews with the Lovings’ daughter and lawyers, the film reveals the power of love to overcome bigotry.

“I came to respect Mildred and Richard so much,” said the film’s director and producer, Nancy Buirski. “I think these people had such high standards and strong principles and in many ways they defied stereotypes.”

“You don’t have to be an activist to change history,” Buirski said. “You just have to believe strongly in something.”

TODAY ONLY! Watch "Silent Choices"»

“Silent Choices” is about abortion and its impact on the lives of African American women. The film is a “hybrid” documentary: part historical piece, part social and religious analysis and part first-person narrative. From African Americans’ cautious involvement with Margaret Sanger during the early birth control movement to black nationalists and civil rights activists who staunchly opposed abortion (or stayed silent on the issue), “Silent Choices” examines the juxtaposition of racial and reproductive politics. Three black women also share their stories of the abortions they had, including a woman’s wrenching tale of the illegal procedure she endured. African Americans who oppose abortion were also interviewed, and the film wraps up with a montage of responses to a comment made by one of the pro-lifers, that abortion is a white woman’s issue.

a must watch

nuestrahermana:

Fair or Not?: The Snow White Complex

Directed by: M. Hasna M.

“Fair or Not?: The Snow White Complex” is a documentary about Eurocentric standards of female beauty that are held across most (post-Colonial) cultures. 

Some of the topics covered: Skin color preferences in relation to class/culture, the media’s role in exacerbating internalized racism, skin bleaching products, exoticism of dark-skinned women, and the phenomenon of tanning amongst White women.

WATCH THIS NOW. WATCH IT.

(via fuckyeahethnicwomen)