For many, romance may be a swipe away via dating apps like Tinder and OKCupid, but it’s often more elusive for those who are transgender. We asked a few trans individuals to describe their experiences looking for love.
Teachers Beat the “Macho Culture” in Prisons through Art Programs
In the early 2000s, Hollywood invested in the urban fairy tale where a teacher is called into the principal’s office of a school in a low-income, broken part of town and is requested to help “build character and morale.” (Think Samuel L. Jackson in Coach Carter, Antonio Banderas in Take the Lead and Hilary Swank …
Growing Industry: Why Weed Seeds Are Giving Way to Pot Clones
In the Independent Lens doc SEED: The Untold Story, biodiversity evangelists travel the globe in search of as many seed varieties as they can bank in their vaults before they disappear. As we learn in the film, 94% of agricultural seed varieties have vanished over the last century. The critics of industrial farming practices featured …
Girl Power: The Original #SquadGoals (and Just #Goals in General)
In the Independent Lens documentary Ovarian Psycos, we’re introduced to The Ovas — a chicanx (xicanx) feminist group who bike through the streets of East L.A. in honor of sisterhood. While bike riding in solidarity is definitely an underground movement, womxn coming together to uplift and empower one another has been a huge part of recent …
History or Hate: America’s Controversial Monuments to White Supremacy
The thing about claiming territory and property is that it takes up space, and taking up space literally makes a huge statement; it becomes a platform for discussing who built something there, and why. So when black musician Daryl Davis shares his collection of former KKK members’ robes and his hopes of opening a “Museum …
Reading the Signs (or, How I Started Singing the Ace of Base Song Instead of Following Directions)
Great background music for what you’re about to read courtesy of YouTube. If there’s one thing that annoys me more than the six hour drive down the I-5 so I could wait another two hours in line to ride the famous “Indiana Jones Adventure” at “The Happiest Place on Earth,” it’s knowing that the long …