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.’
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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.