Q & A with Ann Fessler, Author of “The Girls That Went Away”
- What: Film Screening of A Girl Like Her” and Discussion with Filmmaker Ann Fessler
- When: Thursday May1st, 2014 at 6:00pm
- Where: The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL
- Bonus: Adoption Community AND Ann Fessler herself!
The Girls That Went Away is still one of the first adoption books I recommend to just about everybody as a must read. Taking what is literally the BIBLE of mother’s experiences and putting it to film, is “A Girl Like Her“.
For the average viewer, A Girl Like Her reveals the hidden history of over a million young American women who became pregnant in the 1950s and 60s and were banished to maternity homes to give birth, surrender their children, and return home alone.
For those affected by adoption, a local screening of A Girl Like Her is a great opportunity to learn from other’s true stories, exercise some adoption demons, and find like minded community. For other birthmothers both from the Baby Scoop Era and beyond, it is an opportunity to know that you are not alone in your feelings. For adoptees both born form that time and later, it becomes an time to develop compassion and understanding for what many mother’s went through.
For anyone, it is an education about the foundation of our current adoption industry in the USA. Spoiler alert: it is built upon corruption and lies and tears.
I urge any and all to have the ability to go to this event to do so. Tell your friends, share with your groups.
More Good Stuff from MoCP
Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Ann Fessler
Ann Fessler will screen her film and respond to questions from the audience
Home Truths: Motherhood and Photography is an exhibition running form April 18 – July 13, 2014. The screening is part of the exhibition.
As an artist Ann Fessler has created multiple works connected to her experience as an adoptee and I believe might also have pieces in the show.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) was founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1976 and collaborates with artists, photographers, communities, and institutions locally, nationally, and internationally.
