Ovarian Psycos brought together filmmakers Joanna Sokolowski, who co-produced the Emmy® Award-winning HBO documentary Very Semi-Serious (2015), about New Yorker cartoonists, and Kate Trumbull-LaValle, ...
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The young Los Angeles Latinas who ride together as “Ovarian Psycos” don’t appreciate being called a gang even in jest (they were unamused by an L.A. Times profile’s “chain gang” headline), and their ...
The Milwaukee Film Festival documentary Ovarian Psycos introduces a bandana-wearing "bicycling brigade" from L.A. that provides a sense of empowerment for women in Los Angeles. It screens again ...
The Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade is a collective of young women of color who bike through the streets of East L.A. (and beyond) as a way of taking them back. “It’s for the uneducated women, it’s for ...
The film follows the Ovarian Psycos Brigade of Los Angeles, a group of women on bicycles who have been known to ride in and around the streets where women have recently been killed. The women, who ...
“There’s strength in numbers,” says Xela de la X, a mother, poet M.C., and founder of the Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade. “When you’re riding by yourself, yeah, it feels good, but when you’re riding ...
What makes you a psyco? To some, that question might seem offensive - but if you’re like Andi Xoch and Joan Zeta, it’s a question you answer with pride. Despite its recent success, the film had a ...
A documentary based on the East Los Angeles-based activist group known as the Ovarian Psycos will be shown in Portland this Sunday night as a benefit for the Community Cycling Center. The “OVAS” as ...
A debut documentary profiles a Latina bicycle brigade that’s putting its feminist ideals in motion. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic A concise and intimate documentary on the collective ...
0000018f-87c1-dcea-afcf-cff96c590000 The Ovarian Psycos are an all-women of color bicycle collective that ride to address issues of community, gentrification, and violence against women.; Credit: ...