Screening of "Out In The Night"
Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Date and Time: January 22, 2015 | 5:00 PM-8:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1070/McCormick Screening Room
Event Details
THE DEPARTMENT OF GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES INVITES YOU TO:
OUT IN THE NIGHT
A 2014 award-winning documentary feature film that tells the story of the “New Jersey Four," a group of young African American lesbian-identified friends whose self-defense case made media headlines and inspired a grassroots campaign.
FILM SCREENING AND Q&A
with Renata Hill & Terrain Dandridge
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 5PM
Humanities Gateway 1070 / McCormick Screening Room
Reception to follow in HG 1030
In August 2006, Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, Venice Brown, and Terrain Dandridge defended themselves against a man who harassed and attacked them on the street in New York City's Greenwich Village. Depicted in the media as a “gang of killer lesbians,” the four were arrested and charged with gang assault and attempted murder, and convicted to prison sentences ranging from three to eleven years. Out in the Night follows their case from the night of the incident through the culmination of their legal battles. In the process, the film illuminates the powerful intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class that shaped the case and its media coverage.
CO-SPONSORED BY: the Program in African American Studies; Departments of Asian American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Criminology, Law & Society, and Film & Media Studies; Black Law Student Alliance; Cross-Cultural Center; LGBT Resource Center; OutLaw; Center of Law, Society, and Culture; Humanities Commons; Illuminations, the Chancellor's UCI Arts and Culture Initiative; Campus Assault Resources & Education; Women & Gender Education Initiatives; and the Reproductive Justice Initiative of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy.