Film Sampler: Stonewall Uprising
Join us for Film Sampler, a series of film screenings focused on themes of protest and resistance.
Watch a screening of Stonewall Uprising (2010, 90 min), followed by a Talk Back with Clare Croft and Umayyah Cable.
When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.
These screenings are free and open to the public, no registration or ticket required.
Film Sampler, organized in partnership with the U-M Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM), is offered in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition American Sampler: Activating the Archive.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Following the screening, stay for a talk back with Clare Croft and Umayyah Cable.
Clare Croft is a scholar and dance dramaturg who focuses on gender, sexuality, and bodies in motion. She is a Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, and she also serves the university as the Faculty Director of Arts Research/Creative Practice, a position jointly appointed in the UM Arts Initiative and the Office of the Vice President of Research.
Umayyah Cable is associate professor in the departments of American culture and film, television, and media, and a core faculty member in the Arab and Muslim American studies program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. They are the author of Mainstreaming Palestine: Cinematic Activism and Solidarity Politics in the United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). They are currently working on a documentary film about queer Arab American experiences.
Lead support for American Sampler is provided by Joseph and Annette Allen, Nicole and Matthew Lester, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Susan and Richard Gutow, U-M Arts Initiative, U-M Institute for the Humanities, the Mary L. Wolter Welz Fund, and the Marvin H. and Mary M. Davidson Endowed Fund. Additional generous support is provided by U-M CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, U-M Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice, U-M Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment, U-M Department of History, and U-M Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.
