Flatbush Fists | Part Three | Fight Like A Girl

When Annie Ellman was introduced to karate in the 1970s, she immediately saw its potential as a tool for female empowerment. After meeting Nadia Telsey - a rare female instructor in a dojo run by Sensei Gerald Organe - Annie eventually co-founded Brooklyn Women’s Martial arts, to create a safe space for women to discuss issues of sexual violence and learn self defense. Today, Annie continues to work with women and gender non-conforming people in the borough, imparting the generational wisdom, strength, and resilience she found in the art form so many decades ago.
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[@eljoy5280]

Essential storytelling. This series is so excellent.

[@KhadijahJoySams93]

Wonderful. I'll never forget this video

[@ropongi1008]

I found this generation of this culture to be fascinating, there aren't many of these people left.

[@azlaroc12]

Simply excellent.

[@KOGASTORM]

Awesome

[@marcaustin232]

It's not about being G.A.Y. y'all need to ✋ stop this foolishness, it's causing separate issues...we as parents give birth to all children straight & gay It's always going to be about Eve & Adam....PERIOD!

[@kyodai82]

This one didnt stay on the topic

[@letholamokhesi1253]

Why do gays always have to make it about them? Martial arts pls

[@wendellknight2072]

It's not about being Gay. Its about empowerment and being one's self is empowering whether a person is Gay or Straight

[@alfredgerogiannis5006]

Once “he’s a Black man…oppression” it becomes lost to me.

[@MJBoogey]

Yeah; there's a description for bigots like you!