Off Script: A Rumination on Black Women in America
Join UCLA DataX-Data Justice for a panel discussion about the film (In)Visible Portraits by filmmaker Oge the Yogi, which explores the experiences of Black women in the U.S. and how the consequences of refusing predetermined stereotypes often render them invisible.
This conversation is an invitation to revisit, rethink, and re-engage with Black women’s contributions to society, the cost of that contribution, and the truth of what it means to be a Black woman especially in (these) times of erasure.
A self-described love letter to Black women and a reeducation for everyone else, this evening will feature filmmaker, writer, and visionary Oge Egbuonu; author, academic, and researcher Dr. Joy DeGruy; Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University Dr. Ruha Benjamin; and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at UCLA Dr. Safiya Noble. Because, as the documentary (In)Visble Portraits so beautifully reminds us, “healing begins when voices are heard….”