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Women’s History Month: Wicked Screening

CLC Ballroom 180 Gramling Drive, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

This film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Wicked, reveals the origin stories of Elphaba (the wicked witch of the east) and Glinda (the good witch) from The Wizard of Oz. Featuring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Wicked asks questions at the heart of Women’s and Gender Studies: How and why are certain women cast as “bad” while others are cast […]

Women’s History Month: Wicked Discussion Panel: Is Sisterhood Blooming in Oz?

CLC Ballroom 180 Gramling Drive, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

Wicked offers many opportunities to think about cultural representations of girls and women across a variety of differences. This panel of professors and students will unpack the imagery of sisterhood to discuss what is new, old, thrilling, and troubling about this film. What makes it so popular? What is the symbolic meaning of defying gravity? Who […]