"White supremacy...is sheltered in the home" - Rebecca Dharmapalan
Rebecca is a Tamil/Goan artist, activist, and currently a masters student in Human Rights Law. Her first film, International Boulevard, gained widespread acclaim for depicting child sex trafficking in the SF Bay Area. She was named as Glamour’s College Woman of the Year 2017, on Vogue’s 21 under 21, and given an OZY 2018 Genius Award. Pretty amazing stuff.
We dive deep into her past documentary work, then get super meta on the voyeuristic nature of documentaries. In that section she offers some powerful reflection on the shortcomings of her own work. She also gives some excellent strategies for discussing systemic oppression with family and friends. This one will definitely make you think.