Black History Month: Reflecting on the gay black feminist movement

[Catherina]

1. I really want to see this!

The movie looks brilliant and I really want to see it. Does anyone know if it's available online for people who are overseas?

It's high time and this looks brilliant.

"Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning."

http://hhsdrama.com/documents/StudyGuidePush.pdf

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For all the talk of "liberal Hollywood," diversity is not among the movie industry's strengths.

Dee Rees, the director of "Pariah," a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story that focuses on a black lesbian's experiences coming out in New York City, knows the story too well. In an interview with Colorlines, the writer-director said those very words ("black," "lesbian," "coming of age&quot were often enough to immediately stop film studios and backers from participating.

"We'd go to pitch meetings and the moment we said 'black, lesbian, coming of age,' they would turn around, validate our parking and hand us a bottle of water," she confessed in the interview.

Rees resorted to private benefactors to finance the film, which she said she believed would reach a significant audience. She appears to have been correct -- the film is sitting at a comfortable 95 percent rating on the review-aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/dee-rees-pariah-hollywood-race-problem-black-actors_n_1190478.html