While We Lie Sleeping, a silent short film by Monica Sharf, is a tribute to those who have served or are still serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a provocative addition to the ‘support the troops and oppose the war’ conversation.
Relatedly, we’re hosting a discussion with women who have served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam:
Women Veterans: Citizen Soldiers in Changing Times
Thursday, March 5th
6:30 – 8:30pm
Spreading the word about a good public history project:
OutHistory, an educational website produced by CUNY’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies is collecting histories of LGBT Employee and Other Groups.
Jonathan Ned Katz, director of OutHistory.org, says:
We’d especially like to have histories of LGBT employee organizing at Google and IBM, at other electronic media companies, and at other corporations. We are also asking users to create histories of organized LGBT groups within unions, and among LGBT professionals.
