Things We Don't Talk About: Women's Stories from the Red Tent

Something many women are yearning for
A synopsis of a current movement growing among women, which presents different ways women can nurture each other, and help each other work out healing ways to be with each other. Real women of all ages talking about real experiences. Not polished, and that ads to its value for me. Enjoy!
Laurie Dreamspinner

Important Experience
It has nothing to do with Sean Connery. It also has very little to do with Anita Diamant's novel. This DVD is the launch site for a women's cultural movement, arguing that women need--and deserve--cultural spaces where we are free to recharge and celebrate ourselves and our experiences. Networking and building these communities creates protections making women less vulnerable to exploitation and violence.

Filmmaker Isadora Leidenfrost has little use for mythologizing traditions which did not exist. She is helping today's women create a world which celebrates our sense of self. As part of her academic work, this DVD was carefully researched.

Women from all backgrounds were interviewed about intensely personal life stories. We see how they are affected by society. But then how the sisterhood of the red tent gives them the chance to affect society. There is a process. Watching this alone, or especially with a group, is a moving experience. And I did have fun at the...



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