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Transracial Adoption Memoir Panel
Please join us in welcoming award-winning authors and activists Amandine Gay and Susan Devan Harness as they read from and discuss their memoirs about transracial adoption, alongside Jenny Heijun Wills (English) and moderated by Lindsay Wong (English). Light Refreshments will be available. University of Winnipeg https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/events-calendar/index.html?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D791769769
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« Amandine Gay, families minister » #meuricerecrute
“We should be able to put as many parents as we want on a child’s birth certificate. » Amandine Gay #NewEpisode #MeuriceRecrute #Podcast🎙 Amandine Gay is a director and author, specializing in reproductive justice issues. Her film “Speak Up”, a documentary on black women from European colonial history in Africa and the West Indies, makes…
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« A Story of One’s Own : adoptees flip the script »
The Great Thursday Conferences, Club 44, La-Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). Reproductive justice requires considering unequal access to reproductive, contraceptive, abortive and sterilization techniques or the placement and adoption of children as the result of systemic inequalities. The concept of reproductive justice thus makes it possible to understand why reflections and activism around the issues of adoption, parenting…
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« Practicing intersectionality and being actively antiracist: working towards equality and social justice is a dirty job, are you still up for it? »
Conference as a part of her 3-day residency at Williams College, Williamstown (USA). Paresky Auditorium. As part of the French and Francophone Film Festival, following the March 7 showing of her film, Une histoire à soi/A Story of One’s Own (2021), Amandine Gay will give a talk entitled Practicing intersectionality and being actively antiracist: working…
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Masterclass « A story of one’s own: filmmaking as archival, creative and emancipatory work»
Tempo Documentary Films Festival (Sweden). Amandine Gay is a director, actress and Afro-feminist activist. Her first film, Speak Up is a documentary giving voice to black women in France. Amandine Gay divides her time between artistic and academic research. In recent years, she has focused mainly on the topic of international adoption. In 2021, she…
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« Afrofeminism, translation, and remembering bell hooks »
Amandine Gay is a French filmmaker, Afrofeminist activist, and scholar who divides her time between research and creation. She will be talking about her life and career, including the preface she wrote for a French language edition of Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by bell hooks. Stanford University, Stanford (USA). https://events.stanford.edu/event/afrofeminism_translation_and_remembering_bell_hooks_a_talk_with_filmmaker_and_author_amandine_gay
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« Black Female Voices and Representation Across the Atlantic. »
Round table discussion with Ci’Auna Heard, Amandine Gay and Niema Jordan, moderated by Sakina Hughes. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara (USA). https://www.scu.edu/cas/wgst/news–events/
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Black History Month – Keynote Fireside Chat with Amandine Gay
Black@Celonis Business Resource Group, online event.
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« A Story of One’s Own : adoptees flip the script »
“One’s adoption, many stories” Seminar of the French Adoption Agency, November 8, 2021, IdealCo (France). Discussion around the film “A story of one’s own”.
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Masterclass « Adoptees: voices and images to rethink the family »
INA Monday, National Audiovisual Institute/François Mitterrand Library, Paris (France). Session led by Amandine Gay and translated into French sign language. With the financial support of the Université Paris Lumières. In her latest film A story of One’s Own, Amandine Gay deals with international adoption, anchored in North-South and class relations, and restores the point of…