“Respect Me, Don’t Media Me” was produced in a workshop with Sisters Empowering Sisters, a program of the Girls Best Friend Foundation. The film examines the portrayal of young women in music videos and other media. It also asks the questions: “What do these kinds of portrayals mean for young women?”, “How do they affect our lives, our decisions and our relationships?” and “What can we do to change them?” See https://beyondmedia.org for more information.
00:15 Title animation: “HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!” followed by a classroom skit where students are asked what they of the word “viral”. 01:16 Onscreen text animation: “What is HIV?AIDS?” Reginald Davis and John Gafeney discuss being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. 02:33 Onscreen text animation: “Who gets HIV/AIDS?” Kevin Irvine says “Anybody can get HIV, it doesn’t matter who you are, it matters what you’re doing.” Discussions of the HIV epidemic’s disproportionate effects on young people, women, people of color, gay, and […]
“Why They Gotta Do Me Like That? The Empowered Fe Fes Take On Bullying” was produced in a workshop with the junior group of the Empowered Fe Fes. In this film, 13 young women with disabilities explore school-based bullying by interviewing people on why bullying happens and how they respond, then acting out common experiences with new solutions. The Empowered Fe Fes demand viewers to consider bullying as a serious issue of discrimination, letting us know that we can work together to both understand the stop the problem. See https://beyondmedia.org for more information.
The Empowered Fe Fes, a peer group of young women aged 16 to 24 with different disabilities, strike again with their second video production, an insightful investigation into the truths about sex and disability. In the video, the Fe Fes educate themselves about sex from many angles by talking with activists and scholars. The viewer tags along on a date between a woman with a disability and her able-bodied boyfriend, exploring relationship issues of dating with a disability over a candle-lit dinner. See http://beyondmedia.org for more information.
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In 1993, Girl Talk, a program for girls, ages 12-17, who are detained in the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center (JTDC), came into being as the brainchild of some very dynamic women and their sponsoring organizations, the Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern Law School (CFJC) and Chicago Women’s Health Center. A survey of the girls, conducted by CFJC, found that they faced a number of serious concerns on a daily basis, including sexual assault and other forms of violence, relationships and conflict resolution, education and employment, legal rights, and a wide range of health issues. Programming and services related to these issues were almost non-existent through the detention center, and Girl Talk, a name chosen by the girls themselves was one answer. Girl Talk started as an eight-week pilot project and quickly grew into a weekly year-round one.It grew over the years and was eventually led by Wenona Thompson, a young woman who had spent time within those walls herself as a teenager. Eventually Girl Talk developed a program called Talk Out which extended the program to the girls once they were released from the detention center. Girl Talk ended in 2005 and Wenona Thompson tragically passed away way too young at the age of 32 in 2008. (See https://chicagogirltalk.wordpress.com for more information.)
Thompson shares her story and work with Girl Talk in this interview conducted by Salome Chasnoff and Beyondmedia Education for the educational website womenandprison.org.
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Large rally to support disarmament in Central Park. June 12th, 1982.
See a documentary with classic artists of the “57th Street Art Fair”, hosted by Studs Terkel!
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Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Live coverage of large rally to support disarmament in Central Park. June 12th, 1982.