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May 14, 2008. 7-9pm. 6-120.
Chicks Make Flicks: Today the Hawk Takes One Chick Today the Hawk Takes One Chick by Jane Gillooly (2007, 72 min.). In Swaziland, in southern Africa, the circle of life has been turned on its head. Grandmothers - or Gogos - are forced to watch their adult children die of AIDS, and to raise their many grandchildren on their own. Today the Hawk Takes One Chick follows three Gogos living in a society at the threshold of collapse. The women organize their communities to create nurturing lives for these orphans, at an age when they expected their adult children to be taking care of them. Gillooly's direction shines light on the individual suffering and perseverance of those affected by AIDS, inviting the audience to experience a world where HIV affects everyone. Discussion with director Jane Gillooly follows screening.
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Caroline Rubin, a senior from Frederick,
Maryland majoring in Brain and Cognitive Science and Anthropology, is the
recipient of the 2008 Louis Kampf Writing
Prize
in Women's & Gender Studies for her essay "The Gendered Language of
Gamete 'Donation.'"
Congratulations Caroline!
what is women's &
gender studies?
Women's & Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate Program that provides an academic framework and broad-based community for scholarly inquiry focusing on women, gender, race, and sexuality. Exploring gender with the tools of multiple disciplines, Women's & Gender Studies subjects strive to help MIT students better understand how knowledge and value take different forms depending on a variety of social variables.
