Congress 2016 Screening!
Sunday, May 29, 2016 - Sunday, May 29, 2016
Sexuality Studies Association (SSA), Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF), and Congress 2016 present:
No Easy Walk to Freedom
Sunday, May 29, 2016 @ 7:00 PM
Social Sciences 203, University of Calgary - 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB
FREE Admission
No Easy Walk To Freedom (2014, 92 min.) tells the story of the struggle to strike down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Enacted by the British in 1861, the law criminalizes “carnal intercourse against the order of nature”. 377 was the first of such laws that later spread throughout the colonial empire. Today this legacy remains responsible for half of the laws worldwide that criminalize people on the grounds of sexual orientation.
A moving examination of the struggle to decriminalize homosexuality in contemporary India told through the voices of lawyers, activists and community leaders, No Easy Walk to Freedom documents the growth of queer organizing in India in the context of this historic challenge to a colonial-era law.
Speaker: Nancy Nicol, York University, Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: Challenges, Resilience and Hope
In English