CT Girlcott: "Killing Us Softly 4" screening
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The Women & Gender Resource Action Center and Connecticut Humanities will host a screening of Killing Us Softly 4, a documentary that examines how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity, challenging viewers to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.
Transcript of CT Girlcott: "Killing Us Softly 4" screening
Girlcott is a movement of women who plan to go makeup-free for the month of March, hoping to raise awareness around unrealistic standards
of beauty and the relationship between women and cosmetics. Participants will donate all the money usually spent (in one month) on cosmetics to the
Girlcott Fund, set up to benefit women and young girls locally and globally.
CELEBRATING
2013
Wednesday, March 272nd floor, Mather Hall
Trinity CollegeFree and open to the public.
For more information, please contact [email protected], (860) 297-4131.For directions and campus map, please visit www.trincoll.edu.
6:30 P.M. RECEPTIONALUMNI LOUNGE
7:00 P.M. FILM SCREENINGKILLING US SOFTLY 4RITTENBERG LOUNGE
The Women & Gender Resource Action Center and Connecticut Humanities will host a screening of Killing Us Softly 4, a documentary that examines how advertising traffi cs in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity, challenging viewers to think critically about
popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.
7:45 P.M. PANEL DISCUSSIONRITTENBERG LOUNGE
PANELISTSTeresa Younger, Executive Director, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Donna Berman, Executive Director, Charter Oak Cultural CenterTheresa Morris, Professor of Sociology, Trinity College
MODERATORDeborah Ullman, CEO, YWCA Hartford Region
Girlcott is a partnership of the following organizations: Charter Oak Cultural Center, YWCA Hartford Region, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, University of Hartford Women for Change, Women’s Education and Leadership Fund at University of Hartford, Connecticut Humanities, Permanent Commission on the
Status of Women, The Ethel Walker School, Trinity College Women & Gender Resource Action Center, University of Saint Joseph, Jodi Cup of Health, CT River Academy, and many dedicated individuals.
