Black Women’s Film Festival B(W)FF Presents:
FALL FILM SERIES AT THE WOMEN’S CENTER
REPRESENTING THE BLACK FEMALE BODY

The Life and Times of Sarah Baartman
Tuesday October 18th 12:30-2:00 p.m.
w/ Q&A with Natasha Gordon-Chipembere who holds a PhD in English from the
University of South Africa. Her dissertation was entitled “From Silence to Speech, From Object to Subject: The
Body Politic Investigated in the Trajectory between Sarah Baartman and Contemporary Circumcised African
Women’s Writing.” She has a number of publications, including articles in small axe salon, scrutiny 2, Agenda, and
Changing English. She was a Fulbright Specialist at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, summer 2010. Her
forthcoming book projects include a life history of Malawian activist, Catherine Chipembere and a monograph on
Afro-Costa Ricans. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Medgar Evers College CUNY in Brooklyn, New
York.

A Question of Color
Tuesday November 8th 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Kathe Sandler's documentary film "A Question of Color" begins with a sequence in which a group of black men and
women of varying complexions recite many of the terms, from "high yellow" to "chocolate" to "blue-black," that are
used to describe differences in skin tone. From this formal opening, the film plunges bravely into the ticklish
subject of color consciousness among blacks.

Monday’s Girls
Thursday December 1st 12:30-2:00 p.m.
This fascinating documentary, by the filmmaker of THE BODY BEAUTIFUL, follows two young Nigerian women’s
different experiences of a traditional rite of passage.
All Films Will Be Screened at the Women’s Center 227 New Ingersoll
A collaboration between the Women’s Studies Program and Women’s Center

CONGRATULATIONS

V-Day 2011