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Please join us for this impactful 2.5 hour event, in which we will watch (with pizza) and discuss the feature-length documentary, Daughters.
This film follows four young girls, as they prepare for a special Father- Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C. jail. Prisons have increasingly stopped in-person visits (known as “touch visits”) between family members, resorting instead to video and phone calls. Furthermore, incarcerated people can be moved from institution to institution, sometimes far from their families, so for some of these families, this event may be the only time during their sentences that they can interact with their daughters in person. The film explores the meaning of fatherhood, parenting alone, and the complicated feelings of the children of these men.
