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PUFF Opening Night: Ovarian Psycos
August 4, 2017 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
(Dir: Kate Trumbull LaValle, Joanna Sokolowski)
Doors: 6PM; Movie: 7PM
** CAST MEMBERS FROM THE MOVIE WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE FOR A POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION**
Ovarian Psycos – Documentary is about a new generation of fierce, unapologetic and feminist women of color from the Eastside of Los Angeles who confront injustice, build community, and redefine identity through a raucous, irreverently named bicycle crew: The Ovarian Psyco-Cycles Brigade.
Through the personal stories of the crew’s rabble-rousing founder, Xela de la X, activist, poet M.C., and single mother; street artist and original Ovarian Psyco, Andi Xoch, and a bright-eyed young woman from the neighborhood, Evelyn (Evie), the film traces how the “Ovas” emerged from the diverse, youthful, Latino, working class, immigrant neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, a community situated within the historic legacy of the Chicano/a Civil Rights Movement that emerged from L.A. in the late 1960s. Presented with Bike Pittsburgh and Black Girls Do Bike Pittsburgh.