My Name Is Pauli Murray | Prime Video | Teaser

They are one of the most influential figures in American 20th century history. It’s time you learn their name. My Name is Pauli Murray is coming to @PrimeVideo Oct 1. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist, priest and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation-and consciousness- around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South- who was also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity-Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. Told largely in Pauli’s own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey.
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[@rachelb.1560]

Found out about this documentary - and Pauli Murray! - via a great discussion on Slate's Amicus podcast with the directors, Betsy West and Julie Cohen, and one of the consulting producers, Professor Patricia Bell-Scott. Looking forward to watching the documentary!

[@terrymccormickgallery1287]

In no way was "My Name is Pauli Murray" an anti-white documentary movie, unless anti-white means power also to people who are of any color. She lived her life well in a world with all kinds of people and was proud to accept herself as she felt she was is what I gleamed from this documentary. Plus how wonderful is it that she fought for the right to exist as a gifted constructive human in a world of all kinds of thinkers?

[@bdonnajpvw]

Episcopalians have always known about her. She was our first black female Episcopal priest.

[@cathylewis3967]

This is going to be great!

[@lunagem784]

Amazing
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[@janettedean4713]

Yes, we must keep supporting human rights for all and keep moving our nation and the world forward. No more hate and oppression. Every single one of us human beings deserves our many international human rights as well as protected (not distorted) constitutional rights that are ethically interpreted to benefit all people in ways that allow us to be safe and to thrive. Be an ally to all groups, especially the most oppressed. Use the privileges you have to help others and to fight propaganda, repression and violence against others.

[@blacklitium8827]

SHE WAS, IS AND WILL BE A WOMAN. STOP USE "THEY" AND OTHER STVPIDIETIES OF GENDER IDEOLOGY. SHE WAS A PROUD WOMAN AND A LESBIANS WHO FIGHT FOR RIGHT OF WOMEN AND BLACKS HUMANS. STOP ERASING WOMAN AND OUR FIGHTS.

[@Olive_O_Sudden]

It is not disrespectful to call Murray "they" or a non-binary person. It's also appropriate to use feminine pronouns because that's what she used. But we know, from her own journals, that she did identify as a man, and repeatedly sought out doctors in hopes they would giver her the testosterone treatments that would have allowed her to live her life as a transman. Recognizing Pauli Murray as a gender non-conforming person is not erasure of women's social and legal struggles to be recognized as full persons.