{"id":14480,"date":"2020-10-16T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=14480"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:03","slug":"lesbians-free-everyone-the-beijing-retrospective-a-film-screening-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/lesbians-free-everyone-the-beijing-retrospective-a-film-screening-panel-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbians Free Everyone: The Beijing Retrospective (A Film Screening &#038; Panel Discussion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23-400x753.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23-400x753.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23-160x301.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23-240x452.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23-768x1446.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23-816x1536.png 816w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23-360x678.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/Flyer_Film-Screening-Panel-Discussion-October-23.png 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Panelists<\/strong><br>\nBev Ditsie (Film maker and activist)<br>\nPatrizia Gentile (Carleton U)<br>\nPaola Bacchetta (UC, Berkeley)<br>\nNolwazi Tusini (Producer and activist, Johannesburg)<br>\nKim Vance-Mubanga (International LGBTI activist )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator<\/strong><br>\nShireen Hassim, Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Bev Ditsie (Hon) is an award winning filmmaker\/Reality TV Director and social justice activist best known for addressing the UN at the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995), the first out African Lesbian to do so. She is the first of many things \u2013 including first TV child Actor in South Africa, Founding member of the first multiracial LGBTIQA organization in SA, GLOW \u2013 which organized the 1st Gay and Lesbian Pride March in Johannesburg, and starred in the first reality TV show of its kind (LiveWire Communites, NNTV 1994\/95). The honorary doctorate was bestowed by the Claremont Graduate University in California in 2019, in recognition of her work as a human rights defender who uses media to advance and represent the marginalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[62],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-14480","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-co-sponorship"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2020-10-23T13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2020-10-23T15:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14485,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14480\/revisions\/14485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=14480"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=14480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}