LGBT and Women's centers partnering for Queer Women in film

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Hannah Debenham | For The Post

With the recent release and success of the film Blue is the Warmest Color, the portrayal of
queer women in film is expanding and opening up questions as to how well queer women are
being represented in the media.
Tuesday, the Womens Center will start off a monthly series of movies featuring queer women in
Baker University Center with the movie The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love.
We realized that we havent done much around queer women, said Delfin Bautista, director of
the LGBT Center. The film series will highlight the experiences of queer women.
Bautista said the LGBT Center and Womens Center are partnering together to put on the
series.
Were excited to work with the LGBT Center, said Sarah Jenkins, program coordinator for the
Womens Center.
The series will have four separate showings of different movies portraying queer women
including Fire, Better than Chocolate and Pariah.
There is no one film that will adequately portray all queer women, Jenkins said. Im looking
forward to introducing people to some less mainstream and more diverse views on queer
women.
Jenkins said the term queer is used to encompass, or be an umbrella to describe, different
identities of LGBT people.
Jenkins said she chose more independent films because she believes they often have a wider
portrayal of queer women than mainstream films do.
Its important for students to see diverse representations of different folks, especially if they are
representations that we dont normally see on television or (in) movies, Jenkins said.
After each film there will be a student-led discussion.
Im going to be the worker who is there watching the movies, providing facts and asking
questions after the movie, said Hannah Abrahamson, a junior studying Spanish.
Abrahamson said she hopes to bring more attention to queer women through the series.
It is a subject that is typically not approached; queer women are very rarely represented in
film, Abrahamson said.

Jenkins said people who are interested in the topic should attend the series.
I think in large, the community is pretty well accepted, Abrahamson said. The fact that we
have an LGBT Center is more than other universities have.