
What might be revealed in the slippery space of inviting strangers to act out and respond to 1970s feminism in 2017? YOURS IN SISTERHOOD invites strangers in communities all over the US to read aloud and respond to letters from the 1970s sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine-America's first mainstream feminist magazine. The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations with strangers that emerge from these spontaneous performances of forty-year-old letters mak... (Full plot summary below)
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What might be revealed in the slippery space of inviting strangers to act out and respond to 1970s feminism in 2017? YOURS IN SISTERHOOD invites strangers in communities all over the US to read aloud and respond to letters from the 1970s sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine-America's first mainstream feminist magazine. The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations with strangers that emerge from these spontaneous performances of forty-year-old letters make us think critically about the past, present, and future of feminism, providing a space of reflection that is newly urgent in the aftermath of the 2016 election.What might be revealed in the slippery space of inviting strangers to act out and respond to 1970s feminism in 2017? Between 2015 and 2017, hundreds of strangers in communities all over the US were invited to read aloud and respond to letters from the 1970s sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine-America's first mainstream feminist magazine. The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations that emerge from these spontaneous performances make us think critically about the past, present, and future of feminism. YOURS IN SISTERHOOD is a collective portrait of feminism now and forty years ago that is newly urgent in the aftermath of the 2016 election-a project about time travel, embodied listening, empathy, and public discourse.
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| Hammer to NailDon R. LewisLusztig's Yours in Sisterhood honors the underrepresented, creating a work of bold, original cinema that is bracing, entertaining and vital. |
| Film InquiryChloe WalkerContemplative and moving, Yours In Sisterhood takes us on an exhaustive tour of late twentieth century feminism. We're left to marvel at both how far we've progressed, and how far we have to go. |
| NonficsJordan M. SmithSimple in construction ... Yours In Sisterhood builds a quiet power as stories grow more personal and scarily resonate with contemporary issues of feminism and representation. |
| NOW TorontoSusan G. ColeThe readers are diverse and candid, but this doc has no dramatic pretensions or narrative arc, per se. It's the trove of letters that matters. The film's value lies in uncovering the voices seldom heard. |