USA / 2004 / 31mins / Documentary / English

Candid testimonies from varying New York City women, including artist Carrie Mae Weems and Wilson, recount their earliest engagements with arousal, erotic pleasure, and feelings of objectivity in a society where Black girls are sexualized at an early age.

Sandye Wilson

Sandye Wilson is an actor and director, known for So Many Things to Consider (1996) and notsoprivate (2004) which she directed, and for her roles in Sidewalk Stories (1989), Law & Order (1990) and Naked Acts (1996). Wilson, raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side, studied at Bennington College in Vermont and at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. She was a member of the ’80s New York collective, Rodeo Caldonia High-Fidelity Performance Theater. Wilson also works with the 52nd Street Project, where professional actors, directors and writers team up with children to create original plays. Her short play, Who Slapped Alfredo Falls, is published in the 52nd Street Project's The Butler Did It, series. Wilson co-founded Urban Griots, a performance group of writers, directors and actors and co-founded a poetry performance group, Gap-Tooth Girlfriends: The Third Act, who published an anthology by the same name. Learn More