This series explores aspects of women’s lives and experiences focusing on diversity, identity and social justice issues and offers a variety of highly praised and thought provoking films. Each screening is followed by conversation with a special guest host. Popcorn and punch will be served.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been referred to as the “ground zero” of rape as a weapon of war, affecting tens of thousands of women and girls. The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo is an extraordinary film by survivor and Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, in which voices are given to these brave women.

For more information, contact Sue McCarthy, UWM Women’s Resource Center: 414.229.2852 / suzimac@uwm.edu. Sponsored by the UWM Multicultural Centers, the UWM Women’s Resource Center and Sociocultural Programming.