FEMINISM

2020’s “Personhood: Policing Pregnant Women In America” Gives Context to Recent Texas Abortion Ban

SDFF 2020 Selection Gives Insight Into Increasing Restrictions on Women’s Bodily Autonomy, Self-Determination, Citizenship The recent Texas abortion ban granting private citizens the right to report/penalize anyone aiding or abetting a woman seeking an abortion after just 6 weeks of pregnancy, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to let the law stand, are the most […]

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Michelle Meow/SF Commonwealth Club to Host a Tribute to Sally Gearhart

Life of Lesbian Luminary & Gender Studies Pioneer Celebrated On Sept. 30, the SF Commonwealth Club will hold a special tribute to lesbian feminist activist, writer and professor Sally Gearhart, who passed away earlier this year. SDFF audiences know Sally from her show-stopping appearance as a part of the 2019 selection A Great Ride (Deborah Craig, 2018),

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Sally Miller Gearhart, Lesbian Luminary, Author, Pioneer and Activist, Dies at 90

“More and more frequently I bless the people that others have called my ‘enemy’ or ‘unacceptable’ or ‘crazy,’ for it is the presence of such people in my life that has whetted my hunger for diversity and led me to the knowledge that, in the end as in the beginning, Love is the universal truth

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