Film Screening: Red Umbrella Rights with Q&A with Director Molly Merryman

Red Umbrella Rights is a film about sex worker rights that focuses on founders of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers and members of Bay Area Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP). This film uses the annual International Day to End Violence event to explore issues of sex workers’ rights, LGBTQ rights, and the targeting of sex workers in violent attacks. 

Following the screening, there will be a question and answer session with the film director, Molly Merryman. Molly Merryman, PhD, is a professor of sociology and the founding director of Kent State University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She is an author and ethnographic filmmaker whose documentaries have screened internationally and been broadcast on regional PBS stations.

This event is free to attend and open to the public.