Hosted by Sammy Lyon, Ariana Manov & Danielle Roderick: Justice for My Sister, a compelling documentary on the search for justice in Guatemala, is the centerpiece of a three-prong holistic campaign to educate and support immigrant women to stop domestic violence. The film itself tells the story of Rebeca who is determined to make sure her sister Adela’s killer is brought to justice, despite all the odds against her in a machista society and a notoriously corrupt legal system.
The Justice for My Sister Collective is the film’s community youth-led organization in Guatemala and Los Angeles, which has held over 150 violence prevention workshops and community screenings since November 2011. The collective consists of both men and women working together towards gender equity through public events and the first text-messaging hotline of its kind in Latin America. During the month of August, their “Mujeres Al Frente” workshops (in Spanish) will bring together undocumented women to learn about healthy relationships, economic independence, and violence prevention. We talk to fierce peace warriors Uve Martinez and Heidy Rodriguez, members of the LA collective.
Genesis was never like this! Adam and Eve get a second bite at the apple in award winning playwright Susan Rubin’s new play ‘eve2’. She’s rewiring Old Testament heavies for the new millennium. What if Eve got really sick of being blamed for human mortality and figures out she’s been wrongly blamed and vilified? After having been denied Knowledge and Wisdom, and all of us paying the price for that Biblical misogyny, what if Eve could rewrite her own story?
This play is a surreal piece about EVE AND ADAM in which Time Stops and there is a chance for the “real” Eve, who is alive and working in a Bellevue hospital morgue, to demand creative changes to “The First Couple’s” Bible story. Rubin believes that “If we can change the mythology we’ve been taught, we can change the world.” Playing at the Bootleg Theater August 10 – September 8, 2013.
And are you looking for a day of inspiration? The women’s writing retreat Hedgebrook offers a daylong retreat next week at Mount Saint Mary’s College. The Washington-based retreat turns 25 this year, and alumnae are bringing the experience to a local level with a day of writing and mentorship. Alumnae Council Member and writer Brett Paesel joins us to tell us more.
Tuesdays at 3pm – this is what feminism sounds like!
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