Picciotto Student Residence, Common Room
A collaboration between IRPS 128, QISA, and Gender Centre. This screening series explores various forms of discrimination and marginalization based on sexuality and gender and shows ways taken by activists to fight back against stigma, exclusion, and violence.
A collaboration between RISP 128, QISA & the Gender Centre
This series explores various forms of discrimination and marginalization based on sexuality and gender and shows ways taken by activists to fight back against stigma, exclusion, and violence. We start by looking at the situation of migrant sex workers in five European countries before moving on to the fight for equality undertaken by various LGBTQI+ activists in a range of different countries and on the global level.
Welcome to Chechnya (2020), directed byDavid France (70 min)
With searing urgency, “Welcome to Chechnya” shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Since 2017, Chechnya’s tyrannical leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has waged a depraved operation to “cleanse the blood” of LGBTQ Chechens, overseeing a government-directed campaign to detain, torture and execute them. With no help from the Kremlin and only faint global condemnation, activists take matters into their own hands. In his new documentary, David France uses a remarkable approach to anonymity to expose this atrocity and to tell the story of an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
The screening will be followed by an informal discussion.
See the full screening series program here:
