Dartmouth Events

"We See You: Black Trans Living Legends" Film Screening

The "Crip Futures: Disability Culture at Dartmouth College" series presents this exciting documentary film preview.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Dartmouth Hall 104
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Arts and Sciences, Performances

"We See You: Black Trans Living Legends" Film Screening

Dartmouth Hall 104 & Zoom (hybrid event)

 

A Preview Showing of the new documentary series produced and directed by LeahAnn "Lafemmebear" Mitchell. Movie snacks provided!

The mission: to tell the life stories of living Black queer and trans elders, preserving their legacies as THEY would us know them. To give our community's elders their flowers while they are still alive. We connect with and perform interviews know them. To give our community's elders thier flowerswhile they are still alive. We connect with and perform interviews with Black trans and queer elders whose existences, leadership, and work have had a significant cultural and sociopoliticial impact on today's LGBTQ+ community. With unwavering priority given to our elders' agency in telling their own life stories, our queer and trans creative-led production team develops unique full-length documentary formats to tell each elder's story in a beautiful, honoring way.

Lafemmebear's past and present collaborators include composing and sound designer for "Voices" with poet Aja Monet and the V-Day organization/One billion rising, Time's Up and me too International, Peppermint, Bob the drag queen (RuPaul's Drag Race), Dawn Richard, Suzi Analogue, and Sudan Archives on her latest billboard charter "Selfish Soul". In 2021, she became the first Black woman ever to produce a record on a Top Ten charting album with "I'm a Survivor (Lafemmebear Remix)" on Reba McEntire's REVIVED, REMIXED, REVISTED. In addition to her music projects, Lafemmebear produces and directs the documentary series We See You: Black Trans Living Legends, which focuses on preserving the legacies of living Black queer and trans elders. Learn more about LeahAnn's work at www.lafemmebear.com.

If attending in person, please RSVP by emailing humanities.events@dartmouth.edu with the event title in the subject line. Please include your name and access needs.

Webinar Registration Link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wzx9OmnlSFq5LYB0_k1eog

 

ASL interpretation and captioning provided.

Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.

 

(This is in replacement of the originially scheduled Music Production Workshop with Lafemmebear.)

For more information, contact:
Erin Bennett
603-646-0896

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.