Robert Corbitt, Crystal Feimster – The Rape of Recy Taylor #Venezia74

September 7, 2017

Robert Corbitt, Crystal Feimster - The Rape of Recy Taylor #Venezia74 fredfilmradio

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Robert Corbitt and Crystal Feimster, protagonists of the film The Rape of Recy Taylor.

Fred has the honour to speak to Robert Corbitt and Crystal Feimster, here in Venice to promote Nancy Buirski’s The Rape of Recy Taylor. Robert was raised by Recy Taylor, and her brave actions against injustice inspired Crystal’s academic and activist work. Recy Taylor was and still is a leading figure in the fight for equality. For everybody, everywhere.

The Rape of Recy Taylor: Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. Our film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story. An attempted rape against Parks was but one inspiration for her ongoing work to find justice for countless women like Taylor. The 1955 bus boycott was an end result, not a beginning. More and more women are now speaking up after rape. Our film tells the story of black women who spoke up when danger was greatest; it was their noble efforts to take back their bodies that led to the Montgomery bus boycott and movements that followed. The 2017 Global March by Women is linked to their courage. From sexual aggression on ‘40s southern streets to today’s college campuses and to the threatened right to choose, it is control of women’s bodies that powered the movement in Recy Taylor’s day and fuels our outrage today.

For the official page of the film on the festival website click here.

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Crystal Feimster Robert Corbitt

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The Rape of Recy Taylor

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Mostra del Cinema di Venezia

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