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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 17 sec.) ; 302226943 bytes |
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Indigenous woman Marlene Cummins breaks a 40 year silence to tell the story of her abuse in the Australian Black protest movement.Commissioned by SBS and produced by the multiple Logie award winning Blackfella Films (First Contact; Redfern Now), the documentary tells Cummins' moving story, beginning in 1972 when she fell in love with the leader of the Australian Black Panther Party, Denis Walker, and was absorbed into the party's tumultuous world.The little known Brisbane chapter of the Black Panther Party was directly inspired by the American Panthers. They adapted their politics, militant black leather outfits and defiant attitude. Cummins' vulnerability and her belief in the movement made her a target for men in power. Marlene recalls the incident of her rape, after which she made the difficult decision to stay silent. Dedicated to the cause and distrustful of police, she, like many other Aboriginal women facing abuse, chose to stay silent to protect the movement from criticism.Forty years later, and still struggling with addiction, Black Panther Woman finds Cummins looking back on her involvement in the Aboriginal protest movement from her housing commission flat in the community of Redfern. It's an important Australian film that adds Cummins' voice to those calling for a halt to the abuse of black women from within their own community. (Commissioned by SBS) (Documentary) M (L) CC Follow the conversation on Twitter: #SBSDoco |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-11-01 at 21:20:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Black Panther Party.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
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Abused women -- Psychology.
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Discrimination.
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Protest movements.
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Women, Black -- Abuse of.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Perkins, Rachel, 1970- director
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