Film Screening: The Nest
University of Richmond, VA 23173
The Gender Studies & Sexuality Program invites the community to the Richmond premiere of the award-winning film The Nest by Julietta Singh, Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Gender & Sexuality Studies. A conversation with Professors Patricia Herrera and Alicia Díaz will follow the film screening.
At the end of her mother’s life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her haunted childhood home. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political rebels she never knew.
Singh teams up with acclaimed filmmaker Chase Joynt for a politically charged cross-community collaboration that deftly interweaves Indigenous, Deaf, Japanese and South Asian histories, all connected through the home.
The Nest transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential. A reckoning with memory, matriarchy and the enduring legacies of silenced voices, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them.
Complimentary movie snacks will be provided.
The event is co-sponsored by the Hub for Student Inclusion & Community.
