UNT’s “Fem Flicks” film series kicks off with Q/A by sex education activist

by PegNews wire

The University of North Texas Women's Studies Program is partnering with the Media Library to offer up a series of films dubbed "Fem Flicks," to screen beginning Jan. 30 and following with one new film screening per month through April.

The first movie in the series - showing on Jan. 30 at 5:30 in the University Union Lyceum - is The Education of Shelby Knox, a PBS documentary which chronicles the shift in world view of a young girl from Lubbock who starts out as a conservative Southern Baptist and ends up a liberal Christian, touring the country speaking to young people about the importance of sex education. Ms. Knox will attend the screening and answer questions following the show.

On Feb. 27 (also at 5:30, but this time at the Media Library, Room 111C in Chilton Hall) the 2005 documentary God Sleeps in Rwanda will be presented. The film tells the story of five women whose lives have been irrevocably changed by the 1994 Rwandan genocide, following which the country was left nearly 70% female.

Pornography of Everyday Life screens at 5:30 (once again in the Media Library). This film explores the way in which porn makes covert appearances in mainstream advertising and other pop culture mediums, thereby profaning and defaming "sacred Icons" relating to women, sex and the feminine principle

April 30 (once again at 5:30 p.m. in the Media Library) brings a showing of Absolutely Safe, a 2007 documentary exploring the controversy over breast implant surgery and its health risks, weighed against a society in which a certain type of female physique equates to idealized beauty.

All shows are free and open to the public. For more information call Sandi Spencer, dir. of Women's Studies, at 940-565-2532, or email Sandi at spencer@unt.edu.

posted by JM