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Out in the Night at Northeastern University


  • Northeastern University Snell Library Room 90, 360 Huntington Ave (map)
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Directed by Blair Dorosh-Walther

March 18, 2015 5pm, followed by q&A

Snell Library, Room 90

360 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

 Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a 'Gang of Killer Lesbians.’

Visit http://www.outinthenight.com/ for more information on the film.

 Film to be followed by discussion with Suzanna Danuta Walters and Julie Grigsby.

 Suzanna Danuta Walters is Professor of Sociology and Program Director and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and the Editor-in-Chief of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

 Juli Grigsby is a visiting scholar in WGSS at Northeastern University and a lecturer at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. In Social Cultural Anthropology from the African Diaspora Program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Earlier Event: March 13
Tomboy at MIT
Later Event: March 19
Saving Face at MIT