[Peace] WRC events: "Precious" tonight 3/1 8pm; author Sapphire tomorrow 3/2 7pm

[Kimberlie Kranich]

Thanks for the Counterpunch article, Carl.

Sapphire and Reed both make points I nodded to.  Good to have his perspective.  I also am thinking of Barbara's Smith's book, "All the Women are White, All the Men are Black, But Some of Us are Brave."  I wonder if Reed had read it?

I didn't like "Blind Side" for reasons similar to why Reed doesn't like "Precious."    I think his racial analysis has weight, and that he is also unable to speak articulately on the real problem of male sexual violence against women.  He has given no voice to this reality and I would like to hear his voice on this real problem in addition to the voice he articulates so well in terms of black men being falsely accused of raping white women and the oppression that results in this false accusation.

~Kimberlie









--- On Mon, 3/1/10, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:

From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace] WRC events: "Precious" tonight 3/1 8pm; author Sapphire tomorrow 3/2 7pm
To: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc: peace at anti-war.net
Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 11:09 AM

See also Ishmael Reed's account of the film on Counterpunch.org.


Stuart Levy wrote:
> Two Women's Resource Center events, tonight and tomorrow night:
> 
> Mon 3/1  7pm  Illini Union Ballroom
>    Showing of the film "Precious".   Free.
> 
>    [If you haven't seen it -- this is a fine film, if grim.
>     A good one to watch where you can talk it over with others afterward.
>     Roger Ebert reviewed it here, though it's not his most insightful review:
>          http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091104/REVIEWS/911059999/1023
>    ]
> 
> Tue 3/2  7pm  Illini Union rooms A + B
>    Sapphire, the author of the novel Push on which Precious was based,
>    will be visiting UIUC and speaking on Tuesday night!
> 
> 
> More on the Women's Resource Center:
>    http://studentaffairs.illinois.edu/diversity/women/index.html
> 

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