April 5th
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening
University of Wisconsin
Women's Studies Consortium Annual Conference
Green Bay, WIDoin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will be screening at the University of Wisconsin as part of the Women's Studies Consortium Conference.
For more information call 608-262-3056.
April 9th, 7:00pm
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening
San Francisco Women Film Festival
UC Berkeley: Barrows 126, UC Berkeley
(north of Bancroft Way and Bowditch, behind Hearst Gym)Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will be screening at US Berkeley as part of the Women's Film Festival.
For more information call 415-820-1500.
April 11th; 4:30pm – 6pm
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening and panel discussion
University of Illinois at Chicago
Session 3: Panel 3.7: “It’s About Small Things” and “Doin’ It”
Meeting Room G.
Chicago ILDoin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will screen with discussion facilitated by Monica Adletha Heffner, Linda Miller, Taina Rodriguez following the screening. This event is a collaboration with the Empowered Fe Fes of Access Living. Torkwase Dyson will screen and facilitate discussion of “It’s About Small Things.”
April 10th - 12th; 3:00pm – 3:45pm
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening
University of Illinois at Chicago
UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IllinoisDoin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape is screening on both days as part of the “Race, Sex, Power: New Movements” program at the Black & Latina/o Sexualities Conference.
Monica Heffener, Linda Miller, and Taina Rodriguez will facilitate a discussion with the audience following the screening. This event is a collaboration with the Empowered Fe Fes of Access Living.
April 11th; 1-3pm
“Beyond Disability” screening at the Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival
The Paley Center for Media
25 W 52 Street, New York, NYThis year's festival is a collaboration between youth media makers and educators from Global Action Project, MNN's Youth Channel, DCTV, TRUCE, Educational Video Center, Ghetto Film School, Reel works, Listen UP!, and the Paley Center. The 11th annual Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival is produced and curated by NYC youth media makers and activists.
www.urbanvisionaries.org / call (212) 621-6663 for tickets
April 12th, 11:00am
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening
Oakland Public Library, Rockridge Branch
Oakland, CADoin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape and Beyond Disability will be screening at US Berkeley as part of the Best Seat in the House Festival.
For more information call 800-287-2722.
May 17th; 7:30pm
Turning a Corner and Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape
Screening Work: A Showcase and Celebration
Tennessee Women’s Theater Project’s Women’s Work: A Showcase and Celebration
Z. Alexander Looby Theatre
2301 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., Nashville, TN
For more information visit www.twtp.org
May 21st & 30th; 11pm
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” Television Broadcast
CAN-TV (Chicago Access Network Television)
Wednesday, May 21st - 11pm
& Friday, May 30th - 11pmDoin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will be broadcasted on CAN-TV.
Chain of Change
The Chain of Change project will organize approximately 24 groups of youth across the state of Illinois to individually and collectively strategize how to end violence against women and girls, thinking about their own roles in this work and relative to other communities.
As these video segments are created, Beyondmedia will upload them to the Chain of Change interactive website, enabling the participating groups and the general public to track the development of the project. The website will also facilitate discussion among these 24 groups about the work that is being made in an effort to strengthen bonds between these groups and to raise awareness of violence against women and girls, in all its complexity.
In the Summer of 2007 About Face Theatre, Beyondmedia Education and Howard Brown's Broadway Youth Center developed an intensive theatre and video project to address the current state of HIV amongst youth. Twenty-five LGBTQ youth and their allies met every day for two weeks at the Center on Halstead to discuss sex education, to tell their personal stories about HIV and AIDS, and learn about how to become allies for those who are HIV+. In the workshop, the participants were trained on cameras, and began to shoot a new youth oriented sex education video. The participants were also trained in the practice of theatre, and began creating the script for next year's AFYT mainstage production.
Art, and its power to communicate information in a unique way, has always been central to the movement to support those of us affected by HIV and AIDS. This summer's rigorous arts program served as prevention for its participants, and as a way to reignite the fight to end HIV and AIDS. Much of our work is dedicated to separating myth from fact and undoing the miseducation the participants inherited from our culture. Old and tired myths are still being perpetuated and even safeguarded by the current abstinence-based sex education system in our country. By laying the myths to rest in this summer's workshop, we are now part of the conversation about HIV and AIDS.
Can LGBTQ+Schools = Safe?
Beyondmedia Education is partnering with youth media producers and the Coalition for Education on Sexual Orientation (CESO) and Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to create a multi-media toolkit for LGBTQ youth in Illinois public schools. Can LGBTQ+ Schools=Safe? focuses on sexuality-based discrimination and anti-gay violence of LGBTQ youth in Illinois schools, and shows how to start a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). The project includes a 2-part video/DVD produced by LGBTQ youth, a study guide and an interactive website with information and downloadable art, writing, and audio interviews with queer students. The toolkit will equip young people, parents, teachers, individuals, schools and agencies in Illinois to create strategies for change around the health and safety of LGBTQ students as well as provide a forum for youth to connect and express themselves. www.lgbtqsafeschool.org top
Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape Real Talk: Engaging Young Men as Allies to End Violence Against Women Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes' Take on Bullying Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance To order any of these films, or for more information, see our Catalogue.
The Empowered Fe Fes, a peer group of young women aged 16 to 24 with different disabilities, strike again with their second video production, an insightful investigation into the truths about sex and disability. In the video, the Fe Fes educate themselves about sex from many angles by talking with activists and scholars. The viewer tags along on a date between a woman with a disability and her able-bodied boyfriend, exploring relationship issues of dating with a disability over a candle-lit dinner. top
The young women's action team asks young and adult men to reflect on issues of violence, including street harassment, relationship violence, the media and how to build the movement to stop violence against women. Using poetry, dance and interviews, this video speaks to youth who want to confront violence in their communities. top
Turning A Corner
Turning A Corner tells the stories of people involved in the sex trade and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created in a media activism workshop with over a dozen members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination, and gives rare insights into Chicago's sex trade industry.
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Young women with disabilities show us how we can work together to understand and stop school-based discrimination, particularly against people with disabilities. The Fe Fes offer tongue-in-cheek dreamscapes depicting everyday bullying along with solutions that can be used by any student, teacher or administrator.
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Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance is an interactive website that makes visible women's experiences in the criminal justice system and offers information, strategies and actions that challenge the ways that the system reproduces discrimination, exploitation, and civil injustices in the treatment of women and their families. Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance is comprised of oral narratives in audio and transcription forms, creative writing and essays by currently and formerly incarcerated mothers and their children, images, scholarly articles, and links to sites, reports and resources on women's incarceration already available on the internet. More than half of the contributions come from women in the prison system. A Site for Resistance is the first comprehensive internet resource speaking out and organizing against the incarceration of women and girls. Visit Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance and participate! top
Beyondmedia is generously funded by Abbott Virology, Chicago Community
Trust, Cultural Outreach Program, Chicago Foundation for Women,
Crossroads Fund, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Funding Exchange,
Girl's Best Friend Foundation, Illinois Humanities Council, Elizabeth Morse
Charitable Trust, McCormick Tribune Foundation, Ms. Foundation for Women, A. J. Muste Memorial Institute,
Polk Bros. Foundation, Weitz Fund, and Woods Fund of Chicago. This project
is partially supported by a CityArts Program 2 grant from the City of
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a
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