TNT Radio Productions is hosting a playwriting competition on September 5th. The exciting catch: it’s a rapid 120-minute quick writing challenge. The playwrights only have 120 minutes to write a 10-minute play based on a mystery prompt. The winner will have a short script of theirs (under thirty minutes and hopefully not written in 120 minutes) produced by TNT!
Racism, transphobia, misogyny and homophobia appear hand-in-hand in real life as much as they do on screen. Join the LGBT Center for an online watch party and discussion of Disclosure, an eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television.
Decades-old stereotypes, memes, and tropes in the media both form and reflect our understanding of trans issues have shaped the cultural narrative about transgender people, informing everything from dating and domestic violence, to school policy and national legislation.
The SLI will be a screening of BREATHE, NOLAN, BREATHE on youtube. This documentary released in 2019 tells the story of Nolan Burch a Buffalo, NY local who lost his life to a hazing incident in 2016. Nolan Burch was a freshman at West Virginia University. The documentary depicts hazing, its effects, and most importantly what students can do to be a leader and help someone in need in a life or death situation. The documentary also educates students on alcohol consumption and when it can become dangerous. The documentary will follow with a brief discussion and reflection.
M and Deborah, like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, were born Intersex - with sex characteristics that differ from binary understandings of male or female. Like many, they were foreced into medically unnecessary surgeries to "normalize" their bodies during childhood. The film reflects on ways intersex people seek to reappropriate their bodies and construct their identities.
In 1973 a group of young writers, artists and activists built Lavender Hill, a gay and lesbian commune near Danby NY. While a dozen straight communes thrived in Tompkins County, Lavender Hill was a remarkable experiment in collaboration, gender exploration, and social political integration between young gay men and lesbians in the post-Stonewall era. This intentional community had its beginnings in the Gay Liberation Front and its twilight during the AIDS crisis.
Screening in collaboration with The History Center in Tompkins County
A film about the hearts and hard work of queer farmers in the US that asks: what does it mean to be a queer famer, is agriculture a safe space for queer people, and what are the relationships between food production and queerness? Provokes discussion on gender and sexuality as they are related to our food system.
Screening in collaboration with PRISM and Groundswell Center for Local Food an Farming
The oldest Black owned disco in America is the legacy of businesswoman and activist Jewel Thais-Williams. One of the original safe spaces for both the LGBT and Black communities, her club grew to become known as the "unofficial studio 54 of the West Coast," and she became a national role model for how to fight discrimination and serve others. The film is narrated by one of Ithaca College's most distinguished alumni, actress and activist CCH Pounder.
Screening in collaboration with the Office of Student Engagement as part of the Women Leadership Series.