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Beth Dolan, Award-winning filmmaker
Such a moving film…'There but for the grace of God go I' resonated. These Women's their stories ---just so humanized, real, articulate, bright.... Loved the animation and music, which created such a sense lift to the story — the very thing the art project was about...
Texas Women’s University Celebrates Women’s History Month
I’m thrilled to have brought IN HER SHOES to TWU! MARY ANNE ALHADEFF, Executive Director, Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership, TWU
Best Attended Event in UTD’s Gender Studies History
"IN HER SHOES was the best attended event the Gender Studies program has hosted in our twenty-plus year history. The film brought together people from across our campus—criminology, history, gender studies, psychology, film studies—to think together about gender,...
What We Learn From Women’s Voices
"In Her Shoes is an astonishing archive of incarcerated women voices, giving us the rare opportunity to learn from the creative, brilliant, insightful women we meet on the screen. This film raises a fundamental question: why are women subjected to the devastating and...
UTD Screening and Panel Discussion 9/22
The fall 2022 Gender Studies lecture is a virtual screening of the documentary film In Her Shoes and an in-person panel discussion of the film on Thursday 22 September from 5:30 – 7 p.m. in McDermott Library, room 2.404 (MC 2.404), the CTL seminar room. PANELISTS:...
Importance of Incarcerated Women’s Stories
"I applaud you on the work that has been done – the stories of incarcerated women often get lost." Sultana A. Shabazz, Ph.D., Dean of Corrections Education, Tacoma Community College
Form A4Abolitionist
"For those who want to understand what the sexual abuse-to-prison pipeline looks like, watch IN HER SHOES. The women tell such different stories, but the through line is that, after becoming victims of domestic violence, marginalized women are subject to...
Texas Center for Justice and Equity
"The messaging from IN HER SHOES is critical to recognizing the common history of unaddressed trauma and harm that too often results in women’s incarceration; it is also critical to shifting the public narrative about what real justice should look like. Incarceration...
Powerful
... really powerful. It's a moving and intimate view into the lives of women who are incarcerated and the struggles they have faced and continue to confront in their lives. -Jeannine Esposito Roots&Rebound
Incredible- Puts a human face on women incarcerated
I watched a 60-min documentary last week, IN HER SHOES, and immediately thought how much I would love for people to see it. The film chronicles the lives of women in Dallas County jail through the unlikely medium of the shoes they have worn and aspire to wear again. ...
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