Presented by: The Centre for Women and Trans People @ The University of Toronto
The Trans Inclusion Group hosts a free screening of documentary "She's A Boy I Knew"
==> Trans Film Event: “She’s A Boy I Knew”
==> Free Film! Free Snacks! Free Talk!
The Trans Inclusion Group hosts a FREE screening of “She’s A Boy I Knew” – Thursday Feb.11th 6pm.
Using interviews, animation, old family footage, and voice mail, Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her male-to-female gender transition partially through the voices of her anxious but loving family, best friend, and wife.
Calling for a new era of DIY transgender self-representation, Haworth’s feature debut is a comic, heartbreaking, and uplifting autobiography that breaks away from the marginalized depictions of transsexuals that populate mainstream media. The film celebrates creative activism, self-advocacy and empowerment.
She's a Boy I Knew begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth's decision to come out to his family about his life-long female gender identity. The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an exploration into the filmmaker's process of transition from biological male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen's transition. As her transition progresses, Gwen is forced to reckon with the end of her marriage and the loss of her status as son and brother. But in doing so, she also discovers that while the nature of personal relationships may change, the love and support present within those relationships can remain just as powerful and sometimes even more so.
dir: Gwen Haworth
rated: n/a 2007
for more info: www.artflick.com
Everyone welcome - allies welcome.
Open discussion follows.
Date and Time:
Thursday February 11th, 2010
6pm-8pm
FREE
at The Centre for Women and Trans People at U of T
563 Spadina Ave.
North Borden Building rm. 100
womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca
womens.centre@utoronto.ca
416-978-8201
wheelchair accessible
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Runs: Feb
11, 2010
At: The Centre for Women and Trans People UofT, 563 Spadina Ave, Toronto
Playing: Thursday
Times: 6pm
Cost: FREE
Getting there:
For more information contact:
The Centre for Women and Trans People
Phone:
416-978-8201
Email:
womens.centre@utoronto.ca
