Social Inc is hosting a Friday Film Recommendation.
All Mohawk College students can access this film for free through the Library catalogue.
This week:
"Malcolm X"
"Malcolm Little - known at various times as Detroit Red, Satan, Malcolm X and El-Hajj El-Shabazz - was one of the most charismatic political voices in American history. The fascinating life of this visionary leader is brought to the motion picture screen in a sweeping epic starring Academy Award-winner® Denzel Washington in the title role."
Sensitive Content Warning: This film has content that may be sensitive and triggering. Viewer discretion advised.
Watch "Malcolm X" here.
Featured Book
Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man, by C.E. Gatchalian
"According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own identity. In this beguiling book, an introverted, anxious, ambitious, artistically gifted queer Filipino-Canadian boy finds solace, inspiration, and a "syllabus for living" in art--works of literature and music, from the children's literary classic Anne of Green Gables to the music of Maria Callas. But their contribution to his intellectual, emotional, and spiritual edification belies the fact that they were largely heteronormative and white, which had the effect of invisibilizing him as a queer person of colour. Part memoir, part cultural commentary, and a hybrid of besotted aesthetic appreciation and unsparing critique, Double Melancholy is by turns a passionate love letter to art and an embattled examination of its oppressive complicity with the society that produces it, and the depths to which art both enriches and colonizes us."
Available through the Library catalogue.