Featured Item: HIV: Hey, It's Viral!
 An independent documentary produced by women about the largest meeting of women in world history, the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Forum on Women in Huairou, China, in September 1995. We are including the Beyond Beijing Handbook for free with your purchase! | |||
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Running Time: 60 minutes |
 The Empowered Fe Fes (slang for female), a group of young women with disabilities, hit the streets of Chicago on a quest to discover the difference between how they see themselves and how others see them. Their revelations are humorous, thought provoking and surprising. As the young women grapple with issues as diverse as access, education, employment, sexuality and growing up with disabilities, they address their audience with a sense of urgency, as if to say, "I need to tell you so you'll see me differently."The Teacher's Guide (included for free with your purchase) is a MUST for educators who show Beyond Disability in classroom and workshop settings. The guide is divided into three topics: Difference and Stereotype, Relationships, and Rights. Each topic has several activities to choose from that are designed to stimulate critical thinking about the material. Students are engaged through role play, vivid visual and spatial representations, using their bodies, drawing, reflecting on themselves, sharing experiences and opinions, and working together to strategize solutions. Definitions of key terms, supplemental information, and ideas for projects are also provided. The guide is made with high school classrooms in mind but it can easily adapted for younger students or adult education contexts. | |||
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Running Time: 26 minutes  |
 Beyondmedia Education partnered with youth media producers and the Coalition for Education on Sexual Orientation (CESO) and Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to create a multi-media toolkit on issues facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer / Questioning (LGBTQ) youth in Illinois public schools. Can LGBTQ+ Schools=Safe? focuses on sexuality-based discrimination and anti-gay violence of LGBTQ youth in Illinois schools, and shows how to start a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). | |||
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Running Time: 28 minutes |
 Beyondmedia worked with three Chicago communities and Northwestern University's Children and Family Justice Center to produce the Community Panels for Youth two-video-and-handbook set, illustrating how to create an alternative to juvenile court and youth incarceration that is organized and run by community people. | |||
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Running Time: 43 minutes |
 The Empowered Fe Fes, a peer group of young women aged 16 to 24 with different disabilities, strike again with their second video production, an insightful investigation into the truths about sex and disability. In the video, the Fe Fes educate themselves about sex from many angles by talking with activists and scholars. The viewer tags along on a date between a woman with a disability and her able-bodied boyfriend, exploring relationship issues of dating with a disability over a candle-lit dinner. | |||
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Running Time: 35 minutes |
 A 17 year-old soccer playing Latina tries to make a video, How to Start a Gay-Straight Alliance in Your High School. Feeling threatened by the potential impact of the video, the principal does everything she can to stop her. The video incorporates the voices of gay and lesbian youth and compelling statistics to paint a sobering picture of school and family life for GLBT youth. | |||
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Running Time: 17 minutes |
 Girls' Theory was produced in a year-long workshop with girls aged 14-17, using the media to explore their own lives and the world around them. In their own voices, the girls cover topics such as violence, stereotypes of women, sex, relationships, reputation, and the future. | |||
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Running Time: 24 minutes |
 HIV: Hey, It's Viral! is a groundbreaking sex-positive 20-minute video from Beyondmedia Education addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and activism from youth perspectives. The video shows young people what HIV is, how it is transmitted, and how it can be prevented - all spun with a fun soundtrack and entertaining animations to illustrate the science of HIV/AIDS. Focusing on risk reduction, safer sex practices and the importance of testing, the movie stresses the idea that anyone can get HIV.The HIV: Hey It's Viral DVD includes the 20 minute video, plus extra bonus features that explain in depth the biology of HIV, how to use a condom, how to get tested for HIV, as well as individual personal stories of young people living with HIV. Other features include a workbook for educators, an action guide for activists, educational visual aids and more. | |||
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Running Time: 20 minutes |
 A bilingual (Spanish-English) documentary on birthing at home provides an inspiring and informative depiction of these healthcare activist midwives and their diverse community. | |||
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Running Time: 30 minutes |
| Our View From the Red Line was produced in a workshop with the teen groups of Family Matters. The video documents the rapidly gentrifying North of Howard neighborhood of Rogers Park, Chicago. | |||
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Running Time: 17 minutes |
 The young women's action team asks young and adult men to reflect on issues of violence, including street harassment, relationship violence, the media and how to build the movement to stop violence against women. Using poetry, dance and interviews, this video speaks to youth who want to confront violence in their communities. | |||
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Running Time: 28 minutes |
 Respect Me, Don't Media Me was produced in a workshop with Sisters Empowering Sisters, a program of Girl's Best Friend. The movie examines the portrayal of young women in music videos and other media. It also asks the questions: what does this kind of portrayal mean for young women? How does it affect our lives, our decisions, our relationships? And what can we do to change it? | |||
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Running Time: 30 minutes |
 Pearl Cleage keynotes an intensely moving forum, where women and girls of many races, religions, ethnicities and classes speak out against the violence in their lives and their communities with courage and a sense of sisterhood. | |||
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Running Time: 37 minutes |
 Turning a Corner tells the stories of people involved in the sex trade and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created in a media activism workshop with over a dozen members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination, and gives rare insights into Chicago's sex trade industry. The new version includes interview updates with many of the participants from the original film. | |||
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Running Time: 60 minutes |
 Voices in Time is a window into the lives of women who have served time in prison. In emotionally-charged interviews, women share their experiences before,in, and after prison and examine the relationship between the prison system and poor communities and communities of color. | |||
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Running Time: 36 minutes |
 Women former prisoners use personal stories, poetry, group discussions and on-the-street interviews to analyze the issues of women in prison and the impact on their children. | |||
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Running Time: 21 minutes |
 Young women with disabilities show us how we can work together to understand and stop school-based discrimination, particularly against people with disabilities. The Fe Fes offer tongue-in-cheek dreamscapes depicting everyday bullying along with solutions that can be used by any student, teacher or administrator. | |||
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Running Time: 12 minutes |
 Purchase a fabulous full-color hand screenprinted Women and Prison poster created by Firebelly Design. | |||
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 (Issue 1) Over the course of a week, Firebelly Design chose Beyondmedia's Women and Prison project for their annual summer camp program where 10 designers worked to create a full-color 30 page zine. Includes 8 stories plus artwork in full color. These are stories by incarcerated women and children of formerly incarcerated mothers. | |||
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$10 Zine
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