Post-film discussion with Victoria Reyes, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside and Judith Mirkinson, President of the “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition and Cofounder, Gabriela Network
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case—an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan) and Jennifer’s mother (Julita “Nanay” Laude)—galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism.