Speaker
Charlene CarruthersDate & time
Location
We Must Tell More Complete Stories is a Black Feminist filmmaking masterclass led by Center for Racial Justice Fellow Charlene A. Carruthers. Carruthers will offer her methods for crafting stories for filmmaking and beyond that embody Black feminist values and practices. A discussion will follow a screening of Carruthers' short film The Funnel.
About The Funnel
While struggling with Chicago's ongoing housing crisis, a young Black woman encounters a familiar spirit that opens her eyes and awakens a gift.
The Funnel follows Trina (Cat Christmas), a young Black poet living on the South Side of Chicago, as she navigates an escalating housing crisis with her mother. After falling into an intimate recollection of her family's history, she awakes in a world with people, sounds, and possibilities she's never known. An encounter with a familiar spirit opens her eyes and heart to a new gift.
About the speaker
Charlene A. Carruthers (she/her) is a writer, filmmaker, community organizer, and Black Studies PhD candidate at Northwestern University. A practitioner of telling more complete stories, her work interrogates Black governance, Black and Indigenous relationality, and Black feminist abolitionist geographies. She is the founding national director of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), and author of the bestselling book, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.
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