The documentary
Left on Pearl that will premiere at the Boston International Film Festival on April 14 (popular demand 2nd screening April 17) captures the early feminist activism of WGS’s Dr. Diane Balser. The film portrays the 1971 takeover of a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, Cambridge by a group of women demanding a Women’s Center. Professor Deborah Belle organized a BU campus screening of an in-progress version of this film, while WGS cosponsored a GaIDI/WSRC (Gender & International Development Initiatives/Women’s Studies Research Center) event at Brandeis University with Diane and Rochelle Ruthchild, one of the film’s Executive Producers, as Special Guest Speakers (both Rochelle and Susie Rivo, the film’s Director, are WSRC Scholars). More on the GaIDI event featuring Diane and Rochelle at:
http://unitwin.blogspot.com/…/bu-womens-gender-sexuality-st….
