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My Name Is Andrea (2022)
Not to be missed film about the remarkable and brilliant Andrea Dworkin
As a women's studies/ feminist studies major in the '80's it was impossible to miss the writing of Andrea Dworkin. I was then and am now pro-sex, sexuality, sexually fluid, and have friends/ lovers who are or were sex workers, including people who made pornography. I left college feeling that Dworkin was opposed to women's sexual freedom and power in controlling our income and labor when it was connected to sex work or pornography. This was not the case based on this film's incredible archive, interviews, and style of storytelling. I feel my college education about Dworkin was wrong. This film allowed me entrance into her writings (the film is made up of her writing over the year, she is her own narrator). Her consciousness and questioning of the intersectional nature of oppression are profound! Congratulations to Director Pratibha Parma and Producer Shaheen Hag and everyone involved!! This is a must-see. Be ready for this call to action. My eyes burned from my angry tears that so little has changed from the past 30 years that Dworkin was writing. We have so much to do. Perhaps this film is a bit of a map for that continued needed change.