A JIHAD FOR LOVE
Opens Wednesday, May 21!, IFC Center
Showtimes for Wed May 21 - Tue May 27:
11:20am, 1:15pm, 3:10, 5:05, 7:00, 9:30pm
Filmmakers in person at 7:00 and 9:30 tonight!
“Revealing and moving… a gifted filmmaker.” - Wall Street Journal
A groundbreaking look at gay and lesbian Muslims, A JIHAD FOR LOVE uncovers a hidden face of the world’s fastest-growing religion. Shot over five years in 12 countries and produced by Trembling before G-d’s Sandi Simcha Dubowski, this moving documentary explores reconciling faith with sexuality in societies where “debauchery” can be punished by imprisonment and even death. Embodying the literal meaning of jihad as “inner struggle,” the film’s subjects reveal the hopes of a community fighting for its place in the heart of Islam.
Click here to visit the film’s official website.
NR, USA/UK/France/Germany/Australia, 2008, 81 minutes.
In English, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish and French with English subtitles
SATURDAY, MAY 31ST, 9:30 AM to 3PM
(This coincides with the previous post)
Join students, teachers and community organizers for a dialogue and workshop on challenging heteronormative assumptions and combating homophobia and transphobia in NYC schools.
NYU Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant St.
(Between 2nd & 3rd Ave. and 9th & 10th Sts.
L to 3rd Ave, 6 to Astor Pl, R/W to 8th St)
*Lunch and a lite breakfast will be provided.*
For more info or to RSVP write nyqueer@nycore.org
FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH
6:30 pm
EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
This exhibit focuses on violence against lesbians of color and the lesbian love that empowers them. The artists are sending the healing energy of their art to lesbians of color here and around the world who are being stigmitized, rejected, imprisioned and killed. Besides the daily stress of racism and colonialism, lesbians of color have to deal with homophobia, like verbal abuse, hostility, being labeled sinful by religious leaders, lack of marriage rights and partner benefits, not being represented in many women’s organizations, community ostracism, sexual harassment, partner violence, discrimination in jobs and housing, families trying to take away children or withdraw support, incarceration in mental hospitals or jails, being trafficked, raped, tortured, or murdered..
The exhibit seeks to expose examples of violence against lesbians of color from African, Asian/Pacific Islands, Latino/Carribean. Native American, and Near/Middle Eastern ancestry and assert the right of lesbians of color to a life with dignity and acceptance without fear of attacks on their spirits and bodies.
At the opening reception there will be loc poets, singers and musicians celebrating loc love and resistance to all forms of violence.
