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Queer Latinx Youth Amplify Their Voices Using Telenovelas
Apr 23, 2021
Screenshot from “Kevin’s Story: Looking Back,” an episode of the telenovela series created by queer Latinx youth who participated in a filmmaking workshop led by Outside the Frame and Oregon State University, with support from ENLACE and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
As a teenager in the ’90s, I looked forward to finishing my homework early nearly every night so I could watch a telenovela with my mom and abuelita. Latin American soap operas captured my imagination most when their melodrama and magical realism addressed social issues. As a queer Latinx youth from Colombia, I sat riveted to the screen when the characters struggled with classism, immigration, and racism. But I was disillusioned because the few queer characters who took center stage reinforced stereotypes and
The vaccines are here. Trust the science
Susan Snycerski
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Douglas Magee, 78, a retired Army officer and resident of the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Jackson, right, is inoculated by Brent Myers, a CVS pharmacist, in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Magee was among the first residents to receive the Pfizer covid vaccination. Residents and staff at two of the four veterans homes were inoculated on Saturday with the vaccinations planned for the two other homes next week. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Rogelio V. Solis / Associated Press
With more than 25 million U.S. cases, more than 430,000 deaths and thousands dying per day, the expanding distribution of two vaccines is bringing excitement and hope for many in the United States that this may finally be what we need to get control of this pandemic. That said, an important question remains: How many people will actually take it?
Author Andrew Faas issues open letter to Corporate America
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TORONTO, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Andrew Faas, founder of the Faas Foundation and author of From Bully to Bull s-Eye: Move Your Organization Out of the Line of Fire has released the following message to corporate America:
Last week we witnessed the near demise of democracy. Today and for the foreseeable future we will experience its fragility. Much of the blame for this rests on your shoulders. Your response to the financial meltdown of more than a decade ago set the stage for this. More recently you were warned when Bridgewater s Ray Dalio and J.P. Morgan s Jamie Dimon expressed that unless capitalism is reformed there will be class warfare. I reported on this in an article for The Hill called The Wealth Gap is Real, But Capitalism Can Work For All (May 17, 2019).