Melody Pezeshkian is the host of "Borders of Sound" on Particle FM, a San Diego-based internet radio station. Her show showcases music from countries with rich cultural heritage, whose people have been displaced or whose culture has been oppressed.
Melody Pezeshkian is the host of "Borders of Sound" on Particle FM, a San Diego-based internet radio station. Her show showcases music from countries with rich cultural heritage, whose people have been displaced or whose culture has been oppressed.
Temi Akinola
Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
“I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].”
She was supposed to start in October 2020, but that was moved to the beginning of February.
“My stay has been condensed,” she said. “Some of the programs that would usually take place in person, such as student workshops, question-and-answer sessions and panels, have had to take place online or via Zoom.”
Temi Akinola
Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
“I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].”
She was supposed to start in October 2020, but that was moved to the beginning of February.
“My stay has been condensed,” she said. “Some of the programs that would usually take place in person, such as student workshops, question-and-answer sessions and panels, have had to take place online or via Zoom.”
Trans in Trumpland is a new four-part docuseries directed by Tony Zosherafatain about trans people living in red states during Donald Trump s presidency, told through a road trip across parts of America, specifically Idaho, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas.
“The series’ subjects run the intersectional gamut, from 13-year-old Ash in North Carolina, home to the infamously discriminatory ‘bathroom ban,’ disallowing trans people from using the bathroom of their true gender, to Shane from Idaho; a Native American Army veteran who speaks out against the Trump administration’s trans military ban,” the film’s website states.
Zosherafatain started developing the idea for the docuseries as soon as Trump took office in 2017. “It started the very first day that Trump took office. I remember I felt like I had nightmares constantly. I couldn’t sleep,” he says. “I’m trans and I’m Iranian-American, so double minority. And so that very first week he removed any