My Name Is Andrea

As a women's studies/ feminist studies major in the '80's it was impossible to miss the writing of Andrea Dworkin. I was then and am now pro-sex, sexuality, sexually fluid, and have friends/ lovers who are or were sex workers, including people who made pornography. I left college feeling that Dworkin was opposed to women's sexual freedom and power in controlling our income and labor when it was connected to sex work or pornography. This was not the case based on this film's incredible archive, interviews, and style of storytelling. I feel my college education about Dworkin was wrong. This film allowed me entrance into her writings (the film is made up of her writing over the year, she is her own narrator). Her consciousness and questioning of the intersectional nature of oppression are profound! Congratulations to Director Pratibha Parma and Producer Shaheen Hag and everyone involved!! This is a must-see. Be ready for this call to action. My eyes burned from my angry tears that so little has changed from the past 30 years that Dworkin was writing. We have so much to do. Perhaps this film is a bit of a map for that continued needed change.

"If we give up now younger generations of women will be told porn is good for them and they will believe it."

With two young women in a row now having won 'Best Actress' for playing prostituted women in films which glorify the sexual humiliation of women, at the most prestigious ceremony there is, I believe Andrea's quote has never been more accurate.

I only haven't seen this movie because of course it's impossible to access due to the sex-work-is-work lobby overpowering every aspect of pop culture, but know how crucial this film is and will do everything to help promote it, as I believe we all should.

Hats off to the filmmakers on the brilliant new film "MY NAME IS ANDREA" -- about the powerful activist/writer Andrea Dworkin. I was lucky enough to get to see it on the big screen, at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. This is a film about misogyny, a film about violence against women - and it's a compelling, complicated, even tender portrait of Dworkin. I found it totally gripping. The director's creative genius comes through in the moving and artful (non-linear) way she weaves it together - using only words actually spoken or written by Dworkin - including both archival footage, but also stunningly re-created scenes with amazing actresses of different generations - Ashley Judd, Amandla Stenberg, Soko, Andrea Riseborough, and Christine Lahti. Everyone MUST see it!

Pratibha Parmar and Shaheen Haq have made a profound and beautiful film. "My Name is Andrea" took me on a journey into not only a courageous and inspiring thinker and public figure, but also deep into the the dark heart of misogyny and what is required to wrest us from it. Those who think they "know" Andrea Dworkin because impatient and lazy men have misquoted her and extracted salacious lines from her texts have it all wrong. Through creative hybrid filmmaking, solid direction and attentive production design, Parmar and Haq take us into Andrea's world, heart, and mind.

One of the best docs I've seen this year-an incredible achievement. Dworkin's story is not an easy one to tell, and Parmar delivers a powerful, engaging, complex and masterful look at the author's life, work and activism. Now more than ever, the world needs MY NAME IS ANDREA.