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Showing videos filed under: homosexuality
Melissa Harris Lacewell: Progressive Identity Politics
June 22, 2010Melissa Harris Lacewell quotes South Pacific, a progressive musical of its time, saying, “You have to be taught to hate and fear, you have to be taught from year to year, it has to be drummed in your dear little ear.” Alarmingly, schools in Arizona and Texas have incorporated Rogers and Hammerstein’s ideas into their educational policiesRichard Kim, The Future of Labor and Melissa Harris-Lacewell
June 21, 2010Republicans discuss their values as if they are defending small government and private property, but they’ve evolving much more towards being the defense line of corporate America in recent years. Despite the enormous growth under Andy Stern’s leadership, current president Mary Kay says that the SEIU is still fighting for paid sickdays. None of the laborers cleaning up the gulf coast are even under a union contract in the first place.Media Narratives, Gaza and Uncle Bob
January 7, 2010No matter what the news is, which country has tensions, who's making threats, the response from TV news seems to be the same: quote Dick Cheney. We saw plenty of that this week, along with pronouncements that Democrats are doomed in 2010, complaints about progressives who've criticized the health care bill, and of course Tiger Woods.The F Word: What Do You Mean, Civilized?
January 7, 2010The Washington Post ran an impassioned editorial January 7, condemning the anti-homosexuality law being considered in Uganda."When you're invisible, you want to be visible."
November 15, 2008Just as Americans are told that there's only one kind of sexuality that's "normal " so too LGBT people in other countries are are told their sexuality's a function of colonialism. We take a global view of the culture wars with Fadzai Muparutza of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe and Rauda Morcos of Aswat Palestinian Gay Women, in the U.S.GRITtv Interview: A Jihad For Love
May 29, 2008A coming out story for a culture, a battle for identity within Islam . . .
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