LABOR FILM SERIES
Turning a Corner
Free Movie, Dinner, and Discussion
Thursday, October 19
5:30pm - Dinner Served, 6:00pm - Film Begins
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted St.
Residents' Dining Hall
Seating is extremely limited.
call 312-413-5353 for reservations.
Please notify us at the time of reservation if any special accommodations for the event are needed.
Following the film, there will be a panel conversation with director Salome Chasnoff, along with Brenda Myers, Joy Morris-Hightower, and Beth Sullivan.
For mor information about our panel members, click here.
"Turning a Corner" is collaboration between Beyondmedia Education and Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), a project of Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.
The women featured include Lucretia Clay, whose mother sold her to a pimp when she was 12 years old. Lucretia takes us to the motel where she spent most of the 26 years during which she was trapped in street prostitution. “A lot of the girls that I worked with are not here to come back and tell their story,” she reflects. Also profiled is Brenda Myers, who takes the viewer on a tour of Chicago where the sex industry thrives. “When women were in prostitution and then get out of it, they never tell anybody because of the way people will judge them, because of the ‘scarlet letter.' I think somebody should, and that's what I do,” Brenda explains. “The women's compelling analyses of the sex trade and the effects of its criminalization will surprise even the most knowledgeable viewer,” says Chasnoff. |
Turning a Corner, the newest Beyondmedia video,was created in a media activism workshop that director Salome Chasnoff facilitated with 15 women who had been involved in prostitution in Chicago . The women learned to use video cameras, conduct interviews, analyze the issues surrounding prostitution, and tell their stories. Shot on the street corners across Chicago where they once traded sex, the film recounts the women's battles with sexual abuse, homelessness, violence and discrimination.
Turning a Corner gives rare insights into Chicago's sex industry, and documents the women's efforts to raise awareness of the injustices experienced by those who struggle to survive in this underground world.
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