Title

Love Your Library: Playing With Dolls Documentary Film Screening and Discussion

Contributor Names

Bradford, Lina (Moderator)

Miss Pearl (Panelist)

Lopez, Chanel (Panelist)

Black, Ivana (Panelist)

Martin, Sona (Panelist)

Lipscomb, Beverly (Panelist)

Date

2025-10-15

Description

The FIT Library’s first Love Your Library event of the 2025 fall semester is just in time for LGBTQ+ History Month! It will feature a screening and moderated discussion of the award-winning documentary Playing With Dolls, on October 15, in Katie Murphy Amphitheater. Playing With Dolls is a beautifully crafted and emotionally rich documentary capturing the lives of midtown Manhattan’s transgender showgirl community from the 1970s through the 1990s. With themes of artistry, resilience, and self-expression, it brings visibility to a powerful history often left untold.

Ms. Lina Bradford will moderate a discussion with FIT Alumna, Miss Pearl, producer of the documentary, with other panelists.

Type

Moving Image

Discussions (events)

Subject

Sexual minorities

Sexual minority community

Transgender women

Showgirls

Documentary films

Nineteen seventies

Nineteen eighties

Nineteen nineties

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Rights

In Copyright

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_001173