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Will Smith hosts Netflix docu-series AMEND on the 14th Amendment
Will Smith is both Executive Producer and Host of a brand new Netflix documentary series, Amend: The Fight for America It will explore explores the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as the nation’s most enduring hallmark of democracy. This is the Amendment ratified in 1868, promised equal protection of the laws to all…
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Im Moshanty: Do You Love Me?
Queer filmmaker Tim Wolff’s delightful documentary of the larger-than-life singer/activist Moshanty is quite the wee gem. It is not only an affectionate tribute to one of Papua New Guinea’s most famous citizens, but an insightful glimpse into how she is treated as a transgender in this fiercely conservative Christian country. Before we even meet…
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Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change
The QUEER ECOJUSTICE PROJECT’s Website opens with a powerful and thought-provoking statement from Javier Armando Rivera-Rosales the former Director of Positive Images LGBTQ+ Youth Center during the 2017 fires in Santa Rosa, CA “People don’t see the connection between climate climate change and the treatment of queer and trans people We need to start…
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Black Hats are The New Black
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy the thoroughly entertaining award-winning Israeli award winning series The New Black , but it does help. Set in an upscale Yeshiva in Jerusalem, the story is about four young ‘shababnicks’. This we soon learn is a term for a young ultra-Orthodox person who leaves his or…
