The Purity Myth documentary screening

Tuesday Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Sussman Theater
Sponsored by: Office for Sexual Violence Response and Healthy Relationship Promotion

About the documentary:
This alternately hilarious and infuriating film adaptation of pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti’s bestselling book makes a powerful case that conservative activists have been using irrational fears around young women’s sexuality to undermine women’s autonomy and roll back women’s rights. It depicts a wide-ranging analysis that moves from ‘purity balls’ and the abstinence movement, to attacks on women’s reproductive health care, while targeting the persistent patriarchal assumption that a woman’s worth depends on what she does, or does not do, sexually.

—Submitted by Alysa Mozak, Coordinator for Sexual Violence Response and Healthy Relationship Promotion