September 2021
WLP Publishing Series: Dorothy Wickenden
Dorothy Wickenden is the author of The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights and the New York Times bestseller Nothing Daunted, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996.…
Find out more »WLP Reading Series/Writers of Color Event: Matthew Salesses, MFA ’09
Matthew Salesses, MFA '09 is a novelist, scholar, and Korean adoptee who has written and spoken widely about adoption, race, and parenting for many national venues, including NPR’s Code Switch, The…
Find out more »FLI Forward: Preparing for Your Career
Chat with the Career Development Center about preparing for your career and life beyond Emerson! We'll focus on the journey of building your career communities and amplifying what you bring…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Fruits of Labor’
Set in an agricultural town on the central coast of California, Fruits of Labor is a coming of age story about an American teenager traversing the seen and unseen forces that keep…
Find out more »October 2021
Bright Lights Film Series: ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’
What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher uses a noted…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘United States vs. Reality Winner’
A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘maɬni: towards the ocean, towards the shore’
This film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock’
A group of indigenous women risk their lives to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which jeopardizes their land, water, and entire way of life. Despite the desecration…
Find out more »November 2021
Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Soy Cubana’
Soy Cubana began as a documentary short which followed a unique Afro-Cuban female a cappella quartet, the Vocal Vidas, in their daily lives and artistic process. Their infectious spirit, precise…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Not Going Quietly’
A rising star in progressive politics and a new father, 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS. But after a confrontation with powerful Senator Jeff…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘No Ordinary Man’
American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-20th century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late…
Find out more »December 2021
Bright Lights Film Series: ‘No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics’
No Straight Lines tells the story of five scrappy and pioneering cartoonists who depicted everything from the AIDS crisis, coming out, and same-sex marriage, to themes of race, gender, and…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’
Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘The Gig Is Up’
The gig economy is worth over $5 trillion globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people…
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