2025 | Directed by Francine Weinberg Graff | USA | 71 minutes

Free and open to the public!

Location:
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
(320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511)

Q&A with director Francine Weinberg Graff
and Senate Majority Leader (ret) Loretta Weinberg
Moderated by Laura Wexler (Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

Description: Known as the ‘Feisty Grandma’, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg flipped New Jersey on its head when she unearthed the Bridgegate scandal, which caused the fast and hard fall of Governor Chris Christie. Told through the lens of a mother/daughter story, Politics Is A Mother (Raising Hell is Part Of The Job), reveals how the political is always personal and how an “adorable” grandmother could be one of the most important politicians of our time.

Watch the trailer: https://www.politicsisamother.com/trailer
(Password: Politics2025!)

Presented by Yale Department of History, Yale Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Yale Public Humanities