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Scheduled events include a movie screening about Native American perspectives on LGBT issues, a conference on human rights and gay rights organized by McCarthy, and a panel on LGBT family planning. Others will focus on the fight for political rights, particularly the Day of Silence demonstration later this month, in which members of the queer community will wear duct tape across their mouths to call attention to discrimination and harassment against LGBT people...
...hallmark of this plan is teacher and coach collaboration,” said Barbara J. Allen, executive director of human resources for the Cambridge Public Schools...
...live life privy to all the expository information that we might wish to have. When we see fiction, we are not given that information either. Fiction films simulate life as it’s lived through acting and plot. Documentary claims not to be fiction and to therefore privilege human existence. The paradox is, it almost entirely consists of people after the fact telling you about their lives. If you asked me about my life, I would just lie through my teeth. Our aesthetic aspiration was about ambiguity, not about clarity. We didn’t want to give people...
...many parts of the world there’s a different imagination at work about the environment. The notion of wilderness as space out side realm of human agency is peculiar to America. It’s almost an arrogant conception of nature—it implies we are not natural, just purely cultural. In Europe, there is more of a continuum, a spectrum of human culture and animal-nature relationships. It’s more subtle than either...
...change everything. What motivated you to dedicate your life to the cause of Congolese women? With the initial Oprah episode, I was obviously really stirred and immediately signed up to sponsor two women. But it stayed on my mind. I read stories of women being told they weren't human and wouldn't be missed if they were killed. Essentially the world has agreed with that. That if these 5.5 million people die they're not really missed...