. >> good morning, baby desiree. first christmas. >> pam was a single mom. and carol babysat for each other's kids, walked their babies together, went shopping, shared recipes, and hung out during the holidays. >> pamela was very much of family to me. >> pam was the most caring, loving, giving person you would ever meet. life was about other people. >> tina holland is another friend. she and pam met when their youngest children started attending the same school. they planned family vacations together and trips to disneyland. one year pamela bought her daughter jeanette and tina's sons costumes just for the sake of creating happy memories. her daughter was a princess. tina's sons, a pirate and peter pan. >> she wanted to make sure her friends were happy and taken care of, no matter what it took. and i realized that when i first met her. that, you know, she was one of the people that i was going to have as a lifetime friend. >> pam made and sold jewelry, and she worked hard at it. but she wanted more than that. >> she wanted happiness and not to be alone. her

the miseducation of cameron post, which is desiree akhavan's adaptation of emily danforth‘s novel aboutn gay conversion therapy centre, where, you know, we will tell you all this stuff and somewhow it will change your same—sex attraction! ‘cause there's no such thing as homosexuality, there'sjust sin. i thought the triumph of the film was, although the subject matter of the film is very dark, and it doesn't shy away from that, it's also, there is a lot ofjoy in the film, this lovely irony that chloe grace moretz‘s character is sent to this place where actually she meets the very group of friends that everyone is trying to keep her away from, so i thought...but i understand that there are times when it does make you angry. but there is more humour in it than i anticipated and that's what makes it work as a film. and it's set in the early ‘90s, but boy does it seem relevant to the politics of today, which again i thought was very important, like spike lee's black kla nsman, it's a period setting, but it feels very, very urgent and contemporary. yes, and they started filming before trump w

desiree, thanks forjoining us. welcome. we saw a clip of the film.times we have heard about girls being sent. why now? i fell in love with the book, the film is based on the book of the same title and it was the most honest depiction of teenage life i had seen sincejohn hughes movies. it made me laugh and cry and it took me on a journey of a female sexual coming—of—age and interesting you say we do not see young women's stories, it is not as though women are stories, it is not as though women a re less stories, it is not as though women are less prone to this kind of gay conversion therapy it is no one ca res conversion therapy it is no one cares about winning's stories and the film industry leans toward stories of men and we have women's stories of men and we have women's stories from a male perspective. stories of men and we have women's stories from a male perspectivelj stories from a male perspective.” wa nted stories from a male perspective.” wanted to change that. surely it must be changing, because this has been commissioned and made. there is

[speaking foreign language] >> my name is desiree. i work for the indian people organizing for change. and i just wanted to say that the first time i saw the statue, the first thing i saw was that it is not an accurate depiction of my people because this is a depiction of somebody from the plains. not a lot of people know about the history of california and indigenous people. they don't know what we were. they don't know our history or our names. so when i see the statue, i see it as a way of disempowering our people, every time that a little kid walks past that statue, they begin to think that it is normal for these people to be a pressing. i do not agree with that. i think that we need to have more images that empower our people every time that i walked on the street. i see names of colonizers on the streets. and i would like there to be something empowering that i see when i walked down the street. so that way i can tell the future generation and that there is hope. why do we have to look at something that is so triggering every si

the miseducation of cameron post, which is desiree akhavan's adaptation of emily danforth's novel aboutchange your same—sex attraction! ‘cause there's no such thing as homosexuality, there isjust sin. i thought the triumph of the film was although the subject matter is very dark, and it doesn't shy away from that, it's also — there is a lot ofjoy in the film. this lovely irony that chloe grace moretz‘s character is sent to this place where actually, she meets the very group of friends that everyone is trying to keep her away from so, i thought — but i understand that thing about there are times when it does make you angry. but there is more humour in it than i anticipated, and that's what makes it work as a film. and it's set in the early ‘90s, but boy does it seem relevant to the politics of today which, again, i thought was very important. goodness, yes! like spike lee's blachklansman, it's a period setting but it feels very, very urgent and contemporary. yes, and they started filming it i think before trump was elected. the election happened mid—shoot. it would have been an interesti

the miseducation of cameron post, which is desiree akhavan's adaptation of emily danforth's novel aboutll this stuff and somehow it will change your same—sex attraction! ‘cause there's no such thing as homosexuality, there isjust sin. i thought the triumph of the film was although the subject matter of the film is very dark, and it doesn't shy away from that, it's also — there is a lot ofjoy in the film. this lovely irony that chloe grace moretz‘s character is sent to this place where actually, she meets the very group of friends that everyone is trying to keep her away from so, i thought — but i understand that there are times when it does make you angry. but there is more humour in it than i anticipated, and that's what makes it work as a film. and it's set in the early ‘90s, but boy does it seem relevant to the politics of today which, again, i thought was very important. goodness, yes! like spike lee's blachklansman, it's a period setting but it feels very, very urgent and contemporary. yes, and they started filming it i think before trump was elected. the election happened mid—shoo

. >> desiree gonzalez says she used to hang out on these streets and says she knew several of the missinglso heard those same rumors. >> i came out here looking for my cousin and i bumped into cinnamon. she had told me that the girls were getting their heads cut off and taken to the mesa. that was the last time i seen cinnamon. i got scared. you know, it seems like they knew or something. >> ida didn't completely disbelieve what her girls were telling her. but the mesa, a vast expanse of desert west of town, where people frequently dump things they no longer have any use for, was simply too big an area to launch a search based on just a rumor. and so this case was going nowhere until late in the afternoon on february 2, 2009, when with christine ross decided to take her dog ruka for a walk. >> okay. >> they strolled out of her new you subdivision, one of many that had recently sprouted up on the desert west of albuquerque and then over to an abandoned construction site where christine let ruka off the leash to run. >> she ran up ahead of me and she was messing with something on the ground