Two Spirits KQED June 23- 11:00 PM
Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.
Missed it last night. Looks like it airs again on June Thursday, June 23 — 11:00pm
9 - KQEDTwo SpiritsThe Season 12 finale features “Two Spirits,” which explores the traditional Navajo belief that there are four genders (male, female, male with a feminine essence, and female with a masculine essence) via the 2001 murder of a transgender Navajo teenager.DURATION: 60 MIN
New Film-Straightlaced April 23rd Oakland CA
Please mark your calendars now and join me at the Grand Lake Theater this Thursday, April 23rd, at 7PM for the East Bay Premiere of Straightlaced: How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up. This is a fantastic new film from GroundSpark, documenting the many ways that gender identity and homophobia impacts high school youth. Among teens from across the country, the film features 10 MetWest graduates, filmed in the thick of their high school experiences. Deborah Chasnoff and the folks at GroundSpark are graciously allowing us to host this showing of their latest documentary, and we plan to make it as much a party as a fundraiser. The “kids” in the film (who are currently college students), as well as the filmmakers, will be on hand to chat with us afterward. Admission will be a sliding scale of $10-20. For more information on the film, go to: http://groundspark.org/our-films-and-campaigns/straightlaced or check out today’s SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/20/DDJL172VK7.DTL&type=movies
