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Join us for a film screening plus panel discussion of the film Je suis Noires / Becoming a Black Woman (2022). One of the film’s co-directors, Rachel M’Bon, will introduce the film and she will be joined by Afro-Swiss scholar and activist, Pamela Ohene-Nyako, for a panel discussion after the film. Film Description: In Switzerland, a land of consensus and neutrality, unprecedented voices are being raised by women who are fighting for the recognition of structural racism, deconstructing stereotypes and claiming their dual Swiss and Black identity. In this context, Rachel (Barbezat) M'Bon, a Swiss-Congolese journalist, begins her own quest for identity. On her way to emancipation, she questions her past and her present, and holds up a mirror to her country and her peers. [Documentary, 50 minutes, in French and German with English subtitles.] Reception follows.