Prathiba Parmar director of Nina’s Heavenly Delight will be presenting and screening earlier film works as part of this series that brings together a diverse array of women media makers, from film, video, television and new media, and considers the gendered politics of producing mainstream commercial texts, independent commercial texts, and experimental works, and the relative presence of women in a number of sectors of varied media industries. This event is presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Program in Film and Video of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University. For event details, contact Eric Freedman, 561-297-2534 (efreedma@fau.edu). This event is FREE and open to the public. Florida Atlantic University at Fort Lauderdale 111, East Las Olas Boulevard, Higher Education Complex (HEC), Room 910.
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| BOY I AM |
A special trans panel debate moderated by Celeste Fraser Delgado . Confirmed panelists include: Sam Feder (director of Boy I Am), Brooke Sebold (director Red Without Blue) Dr. Marilyn Volker,Jessica Lam and Jay Beery – panelists bios below. FREE to ticket-holders.
Moderator:
Celeste Fraser Delgado is publisher of the online Miami city magazine, category305.com and a cultural critic currently working on Direct Line to Heaven, a book on the Latin music industry, for St. Martin’s Press.
Confirmed panelists include: Sam Feder (director of Boy I Am, see pg XX), Brooke Sebold (director Red Without Blue, see page XX) Dr. Marilyn Volker, Jessica Lam and Jay Beery.
Dr. Marilyn Volker co-founded the first GLBT youth group in Miami Dade County in the 1970's which is now Pridelines Youth Services, helped to establish the first Pride Conferences through the Institute on Sexism/Sexuality at FIU (later MD College) in response to Anita Bryant's anti-gay attacks in the 1970's, assisted establishing education on GLBT teens in school systems in Dade County, Florida and the Caribbean and helped start the first community based AIDS project –the Health Crisis Network in the 1980's. Maybe you remember her from the Daily Radio program, SEX WITH MARILYN in the late 1970's. Marilyn Volker received her undergrad/masters in deaf/special education and a doctorate in sexology. She is a practicing sexologist for past 37 years. Does not that sound good?
Jessica Lam
“I had always known and felt different from the rest. My feelings about my gender began to emerge early in life. I can remember I felt this inevitability. I was intrigued by the female identity. And although I wanted to be female, I did not find myself attracted to boys, but preferred dating girls. I was always too afraid of disclosing my inner most desire of becoming a woman and ultimately feeling I might be a lesbian. My parents always assumed I was “gay”, turned out they were right -just not the “gay” they thought I was.”
Jay Beery
“As far as my thoughts on transgender issues -political and/or personal, I'm grateful it has become a lot more acknowledged ‘out there’. Kids these days have much more support and information,. Although, there is a lot more work to be done in acceptance and understanding. I also don't necessarily agree with being under the "GLBT" umbrella because discrimination towards us exists even under that umbrella. I just want to let people know that it's not a disease, it's not an escape, and it's not easy. However, it's the only way to be free to be who we are and supposed to be.”
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