Upcoming Event: A Place A Rage with Black Women Radicals and Pratibha Parmar at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A still of June Jordan (left) and Angela Davis (right) from A PLACE OF RAGE (1991) by Pratibha Parmar. Image credit: Women Make Movies.
A celebration of Black feminist resistance featuring a screening and book talk with Dr. Jaimee Swift and film director, Pratibha Parmar.
On September 22 at 6:30 PM EST at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, join us for a screening of A PLACE OF RAGE (1991), Pratibha Parmar's award-winning documentary film that illuminates the contributions of Black women in the Civil Rights Movement through intimate interviews with trailblazing writers and leaders, including Angela Davis, June Jordan, Alice Walker, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. The film bridges Civil Rights era organizing with contemporary discourses on Black power, feminism, and queer rights.
Following the screening, director Pratibha Parmar will be in conversation with Dr. Jaimee A. Swift, Executive Director and Founder of Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics. Swift is the co-editor of We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities — an anthology that includes an interview with Parmar, who discusses her friendships with Davis, Jordan, and Walker. The anthology is a collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective and uplifts cross-racial and internationalist politics that address solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities will be available for sale at the Schomburg Shop and a book signing will follow.
The event is free and open to the public. You can register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-on-screen-a-place-of-rage-with-black-women-radicals-tickets-1998255818946
The event is apart of the Schomburg’s Black on Screen: Century of Radical Visual Culture.
About the Speakers
Pratibha Parmar’s films have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures for over four decades. From experimental shorts to activist documentaries and feature-length works, Parmar’s cinematic language operates as an act of visual justice. Her practice engages the image as a site of struggle—challenging the power relations that determine who is seen, how they are represented, and what forms of visual expression are made possible. Her films are a site of narrative transformation, where memory, activism, and artistic expression converge to resist erasure and imagine new futures. Pratibha is a published author and editor of several anthologies. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) and Sming Sming Books published, Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar in 2025.
Dr. Jaimee A. Swift is the founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics, two Black feminist advocacy organizations dedicated to uplifting and centering Black feminist activism around the world. She is the co-editor of We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Haymarket Books, 2025), a collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, which envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearers—including the Combahee River Collective, Claudia Jones, Grace Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, Third World Women’s Alliance, and the Organization of Women of African and Asian Descent as well as struggles today—We Are Each Other’s Liberation offers an urgent call for the just future we might build together.