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It is interesting that we use Serendip, yet we have never seen/read anything other than traditional books in the course. In many ways, Serendip serves as an online text for the course. Thus, I would highly reccomend exploring feminism/identity in a different medium--in a movie. First, I wanted to second Julia's suggestion of Born into Brothel's.

Another one of my sugestions is the movie Fire, a film I made reference to in a previous posting. Fire is a film my Mira Nair, a highly controversial movie director. I think Nair's film is one that will contribute a great deal to our discussion of what it is like to deter from traditional gender roles (costs? benefits?) as well as, more explicitly, lesbian love. Since we are currently in the "international" facet of feminism/identity, I think the movie (about south asian women) will contribute to the expansiveness of feminism that we, or at least I was, were introduced to by starting with Latina feminism.