2021 | USA | Animation,Documentary,Short

Equality Tea

  • English English 7 mins
  • Director | Jaime Sunwoo
  • Writer | Jaime Sunwoo
  • Producer | Jaime Sunwoo

STATUS: Completed

This film is currently not available.   

Throughout America, women organized tea parties for meetings and fundraisers to support the suffrage movement. The Woman’s Suffrage Party sold ceylon, young hyson, gunpowder, and oolong tea under their charitable brand “Equality Tea.” Yet the history of tea is steeped in inequality, driven by colonialism, war, and appropriation. In her paper puppetry-animated short documentary, Equality Tea, Jaime Sunwoo brews tea while drawing parallels between the fraught histories of the tea trade and the suffrage movement.

voting voting rights civic engagement suffrage tea colonialism documentary history movement paper puppetry animation fraught