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a film about how the power of words, and the love between siblings, can inspire a movement

 

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The R-Word is now available through Women Make Movies for educational and community screenings - please click on the links below:

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The R-Word is smart media criticism, showing how the language we use is inseparable from the world we build. Words matter, and this film shows why. It explains how the r-word is rooted in a shameful history of discrimination and eugenics, and how it continues to perpetuate that painful legacy even when used casually and thoughtlessly today.
— Bill Kirkpatrick, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Department of Communication, Denison University