UCRJ Film Series: BREAK THE SILENCE
Fri, Feb 23
|U-C Independent Media Center
Challenging social taboo with unflinching candor, vulnerability, and often great humor, BREAK THE SILENCE catalyzes vitally important conversations around sexual education, health, autonomy, pleasure, and human rights.
Time & Location
Feb 23, 2024, 6:30 PM – Feb 24, 2024, 8:30 PM
U-C Independent Media Center, 202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
About the Event
Join UCRJ and Uniting Pride for a screening and discussion of the film BREAK THE SILENCE.
Break the Silence features raw, powerful interviews with 18 diverse cisgender and transgender women about their sexual & reproductive health histories. Women from a variety of racial and ethnic, age, sexual orientation, and class backgrounds candidly recount their histories with sexual education, early sexual experiences, abortion, birth control, masturbation, relationships, gender transition, menstruation, STIs, gynecological exams, sexual assault, pregnancy, pleasure, and much more.
Challenging social taboo with unflinching candor, vulnerability, and often great humor, Break the Silence catalyzes vitally important conversations around sexual education, health, autonomy, pleasure, and human rights.
Discussion panel:
Nicole Frydman (she/they), Director of Operations at Uniting Pride
Julia Cronin (she/her), active community volunteer with the IMC, Books 2 Prisoners, and UUCUC
Martha Mills (they/them), Founder/Matriarch, The Name Change Fund
Apoorva Nag (she/her), PhD student in Social Work, Violence Prevention Research Lab, Grad advisor to Illini Students for Reproductive Justice
The 2024 UCRJ Film Series is supported by the GEO SolComm, Ruth Wyman Law Office, a McKinley Community Grant, and the U-C Independent Media Center, which is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council.