CSGS Spring Film Series
May 12
UnSlut: A Documentary Film (Emily Lindin, 2015, 40 min.)
Features conversations with those who have experienced sexual shaming, including the story of seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons who took her own life in 2013. The Halifax teenager had been gang-raped a year and a half earlier by her classmates and labeled a "slut" as a result. Despite transferring schools many times, she could not escape constant cyber harassment and in-person bullying. Other stories include Samantha Gailey Geimer, who was publicly shamed by the media after being sexually assaulted by director Roman Polanski at the age of thirteen in 1977; Gina Tron, who wrote about her experience being shamed out of pursuing charges against a serial rapist in Brooklyn, New York; N'Jaila Rhee, who coped with her sexual assault and the subsequent loss of support from her family and church by reclaiming her sexuality as a "cam girl"; and Allyson Pereira, who was ostracized in her New Jersey town after texting a photo of her breasts to an ex-boyfriend. Interviews with Carol Queen and Leora Tanenbaum.
Sexual (slut-) shaming of girls and women, including sexual assault survivors.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/ZXvh9c79gqg
Date: May 12, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Date: May 12, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM