Wil Pang (Michelle Krusiec) é uma jovem cirurgiã com uma promissora carreira e um imenso problema. Solteira, aos 28 anos, ela descobre ser lésbica ao se apaixonar pela bailarina Vivian (Lynn Chen). Enquanto se encontra às escondidas com a namorada, Wil pensa em um jeito de contar a novidade a sua mãe, a viúva Ma (Joan Chen). Sua vida toma um rumo inesperado numa noite em que Wil encontra a mãe na porta de sua casa. Grávida, Ma foi expulsa da conservadora comunidade chinesa de onde elas vieram por se negar a revelar o nome do pai da criança. Agora as duas precisam se entender.
Um grupo de mulheres interrompeu a cerimônia do Miss Mundo em 1970, em Londres, fazendo uma crítica ao patriarcado, ao padrão estético inalcançável promovido por esse tipo de concurso e à objetificação feminina. O movimento foi muito comentado, mas não foi a única surpresa da noite. Afinal, quem levou o prêmio foi a Miss Granada Jennifer Hosten, a primeira mulher negra a vencer o concurso.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A tribute to legendary black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde, one of the most celebrated icons of feminism's second wave.
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.
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.