New Student Group, New Film Festival 

Edwina Langenberg-Miller, Senior Women's Studies Major

Fore Spoken is a new student group on campus affiliated with the Women's Studies Program. For our first event, we hosted a film festival entitled Gender Issue: The Clara Schiffer Film Festival. Although the attendance was low, spirits were high as the GW and surrounding community jumped into amazing nights of film, speakers and discussion.

Some of the nights included topics involving the international sex trade, female genital mutilation and transgender identities. Speakers accompanied most nights to rouse discussion following the film about everything from creative license while making a film, cult followings, to the fall of the Soviet Union. Highlighting all of these speakers was Bee Sakwa who sold everything she owned and tricked her late husband's family into thinking she was only staying a short time in America to escape the Female Genital Mutilation of her daughter.

Fore Spoken will continue to be an active presence on campus. For next semester, we are planning a speaker series and several other small activities. We are looking for more members and several more executive board positions. If you are interested contact me at Edwina@gwu.edu or the Women's Studies Program because we would love to have you.