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Tag Archives: A Girl Like Her

A Girl Like Her scheduled for Columbus in November

Posted on October 28, 2012 by [email protected] — 2 Comments ↓

Back in January I wrote about Ohio adoptee Ann Fessler’s film A Girl Like Her,  based on her award winning book, The Girls Who Went Away.    At that time, I hoped the  the film would make it to Ohio. Good news!  We are happy to announce that the A Girl Like Her will be shown at the Wexner Center, on the Ohio State University  campus in Columbus on November 27.   You can get more information here. From the Wexner film page: The powerful A Girl Like Her reveals the hidden history of over a million women who became pregnant in the 1950s and 60s and were banished to maternity homes where they would ultimately give up their children in forced adoptions. At a time when sex education was minimal, single women were often ostracized into enduring their pregnancies in shame-filled institutional isolation. The film allows us to hear heartbreaking stories directly from the women who lived them, combined with footage from educational films and newsreels from the time that reinforce the era’s perceptions of sex, “illegitimate” pregnancy, and adoption. (48 mins., video)  (view the trailer here.  I’m having a problem putting it directly on the blog) Also scheduled is Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Girl Like Her, Ann Fessler, Baby Scoop Era, The Girls Who Went Away | 2 Comments ↓

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Anybody who doesn’t know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.–James Ellroy

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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”–Wiilliam Burroughs

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