{"id":6900,"date":"2016-01-27T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=6900"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:33:53","slug":"driving-with-selvi-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/driving-with-selvi-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving With Selvi screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>UofR Film and Media Studies<\/strong> group will screen <strong>Driving With Selvi<\/strong> (Elisa Paloschi, Canada 2015, 74 min.) in <strong>Dewey 1-101<\/strong> on the <strong>UofR Campus<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. Instead she gets on the bus, choosing to live&#8230; and goes on to become South India's first female taxi driver. Over a ten-year journey, we see a remarkable transformation as Selvi finds her voice and defies all expectations &mdash; learning to drive, starting her own taxi company, leading seminars to educate other women, and much more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1519586881704285\/\">Facebook<\/a>, 2016-Jan-25]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UofR Film and Media Studies group will screen Driving With Selvi (Elisa Paloschi, Canada 2015, 74 min.) in Dewey 1-101 on the UofR Campus. Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/driving-with-selvi-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3043],"class_list":["post-6900","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2016-jan-28","cat_jayceland-2016-jan-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}