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deadCenter Programming Partners Series: Women and Non-Binary Programmers – Representative Mauree Turner presents Framing Agnes
April 22, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Presented in partnership with deadCenter Film, we’re sharing the programming love with six creatives composed of film programmers and enthusiasts. Running from February to July, the deadCenter Programming Series focuses on Oklahoma-based women and non-binary programmers and highlights their selected films in the Video Lounge at #21cOKC.
Representative Mauree Turner presents Framing Agnes | April 22nd 7:30-9:30pm
Mauree Nivek Rajah Salima Turner (They / Them/ Theirs / Representative) is the newly-elected State Representative for Oklahoma’s 88th House District thanks to the people.
Rep. Turner was formerly the Regional Field Director for the Campaign for Smart Justice, an ACLU campaign focusing on criminal justice reform, and its many intersections. Their life’s works are geared towards fighting for and maintaining the civil rights and liberties of all who enter America.
They are an Oklahoma community organizer, born and raised, coming from a Muslim and Baptist upbringing. In elementary school, if they were missing class it was because they were at an HIV and AIDS Awareness event or LGBTQ+ advocacy event with their mother.
Rep. Turner grew up believing in the power and duty they had to change the world for the better.
About the film:
In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.
