Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100

African-American, documentary, activism, woman director, feminist, racism, biography, experimental documentary

gift from filmmaker. Yvonne is my longtime friend and collaborator. I teach her films frequently in courses on feminist, queer, and documentary film. We co-edited Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African-American Media Making (Duke University Press, 2018).

1994

Born July 23, 1899, Ruth Ellis was thought to be the oldest "out" African American lesbian. Her story offers a rare opportunity to experience a century of our history as lived by one inspiring woman. Ellis passed away October 5, 2000 at age 101. --Sisters in Cinema

Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making (Duke 2018)

Sisters in the Life, Yvonne Welbon and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Feminist Media Histories

A Sister in Cinema: An Interview with Yvonne Welbon, Vida Cross in the Journal of Film and Video Vol. 55, 4, (Winter 2003)

video

11 mins

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11305499&node=50285639&a=58456603