Want to know more about different women’s movements throughout history? The UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women are hosting a screening of the film “Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers,” followed by a Q&A with playwright and activist, Fazia Mardzoeki.
The free screening will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27 in 10383 Bunche Hall.
This film highlights the perspectives of women activists in the Indonesian women’s movement who were political prisoners in 1965, suffered sexual violence, and were stigmatized for decades as immoral women in Indonesia. After much upheaval came the military backed New Order regime, under General Suharto. During the New Order era, women’s role in public areas was allowed as long as it was within the structures defined by the state, which positioned women as obedient to and dependent on men. The regime erased women’s real role from memory. The film counters that notion.
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