“Sex Radical” Film Screening & Discussion at Washington University in St. Louis

Please join us on November 13th at 7pm for a film screening and discussion at Washington University’s Danforth Center, as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival.

SEX RADICAL is a new documentary-drama about Ida Craddock, a pioneer in the struggle for free expression and women’s reproductive rights in the late 19th century. A sex educator, author, and spiritualist, Ida Craddock risked everything to challenge the 1873 Comstock Act, which prohibited the distribution of information about sex, contraception, and abortion. Using archival sources like personal letters, interviews, and historical documents to write the script, the filmmaker, Andy Kirshner, shares Ida’s inspiring and timely story of determination and resistance through the voice of the film’s narrator, Emma Goldman – another important feminist pioneer of the early 20th century.

After the screening, Professor Leigh Schmidt, author of Ida Craddock’s biography “Heaven’s Bride,” will moderate a discussion between the audience and the filmmaker, Andy Kirshner (University of Michigan Professor Emeritus).