âIn Our Mothersâ Gardensâ Review: Creating Space for Black Women
The Netflix documentary sets out to show how maternal lineages have shaped generations of Black women.
Shantrelle P. Lewis, the director of âIn Our Mothersâ Gardensâ on Netflix.Credit.Rog Walker/Netflix
By Natalia Winkelman
In Our Mothers Gardens
Documentary
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In the meditative documentary âIn Our Mothersâ Gardensâ (streaming on Netflix), the stories could warm a room in any season. Opening with a quote from Alice Walker, whose book âIn Search of Our Mothersâ Gardensâ inspired the filmâs title, the documentary sets out to show how Black maternal lineages have shaped the idea of Black womanhood.
A must-see doc about a must-know subject.
TWITTER RBG filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West return with a documentary portrait of a forgotten but brilliant queer Black legal scholar who influenced Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Lawyer, scholar, priest and queer pioneer Pauli Murray is exactly the kind of historical personage for whom the phrase “I can’t believe I’ve never heard of them before!” exists. No less than Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were indebted to Murray for their legal triumphs in overturning segregation and discrimination against women. “We literally live in an architecture of the world that Pauli Murray built,” says Professor Brittney Cooper in the new bio-doc