Comments on: “Iron Ladies of Liberia” airs on KETC in April…Sneak Preview of Independent Lens Film at Missouri History Museum http://www.riehlife.com/2008/02/08/iron-ladies-of-liberia-airs-on-ketc-in-aprilsneak-preview-of-independent-lens-film-at-missouri-history-museum/ Creating connections through the arts and across cultures Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anne http://www.riehlife.com/2008/02/08/iron-ladies-of-liberia-airs-on-ketc-in-aprilsneak-preview-of-independent-lens-film-at-missouri-history-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-2317 Anne Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:38:50 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2008/02/08/iron-ladies-of-liberia-airs-on-ketc-in-aprilsneak-preview-of-independent-lens-film-at-missouri-history-museum/#comment-2317 Thanks for bringing the "Iron Ladies of Liberia" film to our attention. I recently watched a documentory by a Kenyan woman who suffers crippling psychological depression because of her forced circumcism. Only by speaking out and advocating for change was she able to move on. My favorite films are always the Indies that I watch on Link-TV, a "television without borders" that I found on my satelite television way down in the big numbers section where they hide the intelligent programing. Watching intelligent TV is an antidote for the overwhelming overload of the electronic age. I seem to need to process my past in order to cope. My inspirational autobiography, Ordinary Aphrodite, is my attempt to move foreward by lining my "past-ducks" in orderly rows. If wars are won by studying history, then female power is created by understanding our sisters in other cultures and celebrating our commonality. I never watch a powerful Indie movie about women without feeling stronger, safer and more blessed. Thanks for reminding me! Anne Schroeder Thanks for bringing the "Iron Ladies of Liberia" film to our attention. I recently watched a documentory by a Kenyan woman who suffers crippling psychological depression because of her forced circumcism. Only by speaking out and advocating for change was she able to move on. My favorite films are always the Indies that I watch on Link-TV, a "television without borders" that I found on my satelite television way down in the big numbers section where they hide the intelligent programing.

Watching intelligent TV is an antidote for the overwhelming overload of the electronic age. I seem to need to process my past in order to cope. My inspirational autobiography, Ordinary Aphrodite, is my attempt to move foreward by lining my "past-ducks" in orderly rows. If wars are won by studying history, then female power is created by understanding our sisters in other cultures and celebrating our commonality. I never watch a powerful Indie movie about women without feeling stronger, safer and more blessed.

Thanks for reminding me!

Anne Schroeder

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