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Fresh Kill: An Eco-Queer film

Each year, the UCI Department of Women's Studies hosts a social event for undergraduate students at which we screen an entertaining film, eat delicious pizza, and offer an opportunity for you to meet one another and members of our faculty. This year we invite you to a screening and discussion of

Fresh Kill
An Eco-Queer film

Directed by Shu Lea Cheang with screenplay by Jessica Hagedorn

Starring Sarita Choudhury (Mississippi Masala) and Erin McMurtry (The Tracey Fragments) and many more

Original music score by Vernon Reid (Living Color)

As a reviewer for IMDb summarizes the film, "two young lesbian parents, Shareen and Claire are raising their five year old daughter Honey in a converted garage on Staten Island. Shareen salvages refuse with her pickup truck while Claire waits tables at the hip Naga Saki restaurant in Manhattan, caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. As a ghost barge bearing nuclear refuse circles the planet in search of a willing port, household pets begin to glow ominously and then disappear; people start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated, the couple's daughter Honey mysteriously vanishes, and a group of young New Yorkers strike back in an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world."

Don't miss this rare opportunity to view a film rife with humor, wisdom, sexual desire, and cogent feminist transnational critique.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
5-7pm
Humanities Gateway Building Room 3341

RSVP to Liz Sanchez at lbsanche@uci.edu so that we can make sure to have
enough pizza.