Amande Gay Reclaims the Narrative "Speak Up": News: Center of Excellence of the French Embassy: Indiana Universy Bloomgton

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• AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE SPEAK UP
• AMANDE GAY
• OUVRIR LA VOIX D'AMANDE GAY
• AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE "SPEAK UP"
• BLACK FRANPHONE WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR NARRATIVE AMANDE GAY'S 'SPEAK UP'
• AMANDE GAY ? SPEAK UP

AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE SPEAK UP

To this effect, filmmaker Amande Gay’s work — her films, wrg, activism, and rearch — aims to center whens and lonize the md.

Traed soclogy, both France and Canada, Gay holds the cril tools to put nversatn different approach and methodologi to the analysis of the tersectn of race, genr, sexualy, and class. Amande Gay (Cred: Otto Zsou). Gay has had her own experience wh beg silenced.

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” In the absence of fair reprentatn, Gay cid to create her own characters and took up wrg. Eventually, Gay seized the mera and started workg on the documentary Speak Up 2013, supported by producer, edor, and sound engeer Enri Bartolucci.

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Gay has also paved the way for wir exploratns of Aopean inti France and Belgium. As a unterreactn, Gay ma sure to clu exprsns of spirualy and relign to also amplify femist Mlim voic. From her own experience as a wrer who has also prefaced the French translatns of bell hooks’ books, Gay knows the importance of a practice based re.

OUVRIR LA VOIX D'AMANDE GAY

A meticulo artist, Amande Gay is also a rearcher who has voted her amic work to the nsequenc of lonial history, and more recently to ternatnal adoptn and race.

AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE "SPEAK UP"

This rearch has culmated her latt documentary, A Story of One’s Own, which Gay met wh French adopte, often racialized, who were born untri abroad. As a transracial adoptee herself, Gay has published a book at the crossroads of tobgraphy and say, ak to the genre of toethnography, lled Une Poupée en cholat (which has yet to be translated to English).

Filmmaker Amande Gay and producer Enri Bartolucci are schled to be prent for a nversatn morated by Dr. On Febary 23, Amande Gay will also be givg a lecture entled “Practicg Intersectnaly and Beg Actively Antiracist: Workg towards equaly and social jtice is a dirty job — are you still up for ? E""L tr ne prennent pas ta rage"Amande Gay ?.

BLACK FRANPHONE WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR NARRATIVE AMANDE GAY'S 'SPEAK UP'

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AMANDE GAY ? SPEAK UP

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Keep track of how much of Amande Gay’s work you have seen.

The film Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix French) by French filmmaker, scholar, and aofemist Amande Gay, will be shown at the IU Cema on Febary 21. Traed soclogy, both France and Canada, Gay holds the cril tools to put nversatn different approach and methodologi to the analysis of the tersectn of race, genr, sexualy, and has had her own experience wh beg silenced.