On Saturday, March 9th, 5:30 -7:30 p.m. at Poquatuck Hall, Village lane, Orient

nfwfwf presents a double feature:

Creating Women’s History — The Sophia Smith Collection @ Smith College

This brief film highlights Smith College’s pioneering contributions to the movement that is revolutionizing the writing and teaching of history. The documentary will be prefaced with a live, brief history of how Orienter Anne MacKay was instrumental in the inclusion of nfwfwf into the Smith archives. It chronicles the 1942 founding of the nation’s oldest women’s manuscripts collection by historian Mary Ritter Beard and archivist Margaret Storrs Grierson. There are featured cameo appearances by: Gloria Steinem, Rebecca Walker, Third Wave feminist, Amy Richards, Third Wave feminist, Jan Peterson, Grassroots activist, Frances Fox Piven, Political scientist/Activist, Daniel Horowitz, Historian, Linda Gordon, Historian and Linda Kerber, Historian.

Saving Face

In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.