Women To Watch
Two new films to see. Written by Shamim Sarif and produced by Hanan Kattan and Enlightenment Productions. The World Unseen In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just becoming institutionalized. Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob her “colored” […]
Immigrant Women Working As Dancers Say Job Is Dangerous
As neon lights bathe the dance floor of the darkened nightclub, a group of young women from Latin America sit at tables, sipping water or soft drinks and waiting.For $2, the women will dance one song. For $10, they will dance a set. Forty dollars buys an hour of their time. The scene plays out […]
Gay Elders’ Distinctive Challenges Up Close
photo: Mary Altaffer Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment. As an 86-year-old gay man, with no family nearby and many acquaintances long since dead, he’d seem a likely prospect for isolation. Instead, […]
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