[Scpg] [hd-films-sb] BIRTHRIGHT locally filmed -- very honest view of motherhood Wed, May 27, 6:00 pm

[bob banner]

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> From: jemila r <persimmonpie9 at yahoo.com>
>
>
> "Birthright: Mothering Across Difference"  -
>                 captures the pleasures & pains of Parenthood
>           FREE  screening Wednesday, May 27, 6:00 pm
>                          YUP !     6:00  pm
> at the UCSB Multi-Cultural Center (near the UCen).
>
> Allow 10 minutes to walk from parking lot or the bus circle - you  
> can get a UCSB campus map by googling those 3 words.  Or just ask  
> someone when you get there, "Where's the Multicultural Center ?"   
> most students will know.
>
>
>
> “Birthright”
> Documentary Film Captures the Pleasures and Pains of Parenthood
>
>
> They say crisis brings people closer. Certainly it was true during  
> the Jesusita Fire when, if you weren’t evacuated yourself, you were  
> welcoming displaced friends into your home.
>
> I think motherhood — especially new motherhood — is a  
> kind of crisis in itself. For all their wee littleness, newborns  
> bring colossal emotional upheaval and physical duress. Their arrival  
> demands mandatory evacuation from our comfort zones.
>
> And women bond over it. Un-inclined to discuss their chapped nipples  
> and husbands’ quenchless libidos with the friendly check-out guy at  
> Vons, they’ll squawk their guts out to any stranger with a diaper  
> bag.
>
> Or a movie camera.
>
> At 6 p.m., Wednesday, UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Theater will  
> screen a new documentary on the pleasures and pains of parenthood.
>
> Birthright: Mothering Across Difference will be followed by a Q&A  
> with the filmmaker, my friend Celine Parreñas Shimizu, who teaches  
> in the Feminist Studies department. The event is free.
>
> The film is a patchwork of interviews with 50 area moms: gay and  
> straight, rich and poor, married and single, working and stay-at- 
> home, white and Latina and Asian and black. Despite differences,  
> they share anxieties, hopes, and points of pride.
>
> Celine struggled with her own personal and professional identity  
> after her sons were born. Then she attended a PEP meeting — a  
> gathering of new Santa Barbara moms organized by the nonprofit  
> Postpartum Education for Parents. And she saw how quickly, and  
> easily, women can bond over new motherhood.
>
> “I didn’t expect to make such intense, close friendships after a  
> certain age,” she said. These women became her family. Some are  
> interviewed in the film, which is shot up close, so you feel like  
> you’re inches away from each subject.
>
> “I wanted to capture the intimacy of getting to know a woman,”  
> Celine said. “I told my cinematographer, ‘You have to have, like,  
> an umbilical relationship with this woman. You have to worship  
> her.’”
>
> It’s hard not to. Their revelations are frank — but to any  
> mom, familiar — as they discuss working vs. staying at home.  
> “You can’t have it all,” said a woman who gave up her job. “I  
> sacrifice something every day when I stay home. There’s a corporate  
> woman inside of me that is pushed down, and that’s unfortunate,  
> because I have a lot of gifts. But the truth is, that guilt was too  
> much for me.”
>
> I invited some of the moms in the film to continue the discussion  
> over dinner last week. “Just being here tonight is guilt-filled,”  
> said one working mom. “I feel like I should be home reading  
> stories.” But another admitted she’d cranked her car radio on the  
> way there and fantasized about driving into the distance, never to  
> return.
>
> Talk turned, as it often does with moms, to feelings of jealousy and  
> inadequacy. “I was envious of women who could provide milk,” said  
> a woman who had trouble nursing. “I pumped and pumped for two lousy  
> ounces and these other women were just dripping with milk all the  
> time.”
>
> Others said they were shocked to find they’re not the moms they  
> always imagined they’d be. “I’m disappointed at how  
> undisciplined I am,” said one. “My kids walk all over me!”
>
> All of them said they’re less judgmental of other mothers now than  
> they were before they had kids. “I had a friend pocket-call me  
> once,” said a mother of two. “Her phone dialed me and she  
> didn’t know it.” And she was yelling at her kids. Really yelling.  
> “It was awesome,” she confessed, with a wide grin and a deep  
> sigh. “I didn’t hang up. I listened to the whooooole thing.”
>
>
>

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