Podcasts/Happenings
August 23rd, 2010
Kate Clinton reads Gloria Steinem
This summer, we organized weekly Feminist Classics Readings as a grassroots creative action to just engage with the flow of life in a different way! We invited friends and anyone to come, bring their own idea of what was a "feminist classic" to read. We brought along a few of our favorite books. Poetry worked really well and was amazing to read again, out loud. The power of words was exciting and the emphasis each person put into it was often moving. This is a clip of Kate reading excerpts from a Gloria Steinem essay titled "If Men Could Menstruate." Kate reads Gloria Steinem from UVaid on Vimeo.
August 23rd, 2010
Chennai Rainbow Pride 2009 by Mohan Das Vadakara
This amazing clip from Chennai, India was made by photographer/videographer Mohan Das Vadakara last year, and offers a glimpse of a global LGBT activism than US based progressives rarely see. It is in English and Tamil but I find all parts understandable and inspiring. It was distributed by the Orinam.net group, which describs itself as follows "Initiated in October 2006, Orinam.net is a bilingual – Tamil and English – website with information on alternate sexualities and genders. We intend this space to speak to a wide range of people, including families and friends of those of us who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender." Chennai Rainbow Pride 2009 from Orinam webteam on
August 20th, 2010
We Are Not Republicans – ACT UP at 1988 Republican Convention
This film by Adam Hussuk and Bob Huff is from You Tube. At the time of the Republican Convention in August of 1988, ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was about a year and a half old and was shaking up the way the media and politicians responded to HIV/AIDS. ACT UP chapters erupted and members protested across the country. This video shows how AIDS activists and gay protestors were treated at the 1988 Republican Convention. ACT UP led protests at both the 1988 Democratic and Republic Convention. It was supported by a coalition of gay and lesbian groups calling themselves Gay and Lesbian VOICE '88 ( Gay and Lesbian Voters Organized In Coalition for the
August 20th, 2010
Democracy Now – October 13, 2009
This is an interview with Amy Goodman and her colleague on Democracy Now just after the National Equality March.
August 4th, 2010
Slavoj Zizek on Cultural Capitalism – illustrated in cartoons as he speaks!
Slavoj Zizek is a cultural critic and theorist who is affiliated with a number of institutes, currently International Director of the Birkbeck Institute in London and professor at the European Graduate School. His work is accessible, fascinating, and relevant to anyone interested in the the intersection of culture and politics. This short video features Zizek speaking while animators illustrate what he is saying about feel-good capitalism. It's a funny and sobering critique for those of us who do believe that socially responsible capitalism (oxymoronic though it may be) is what we are left with.
July 21st, 2010
Reading the Feminist Classics on the Street – 7.21.10
Inspired by one of those dinner moments where someone says “we should do this,” and then you do, some friends and I are doing street readings of feminist classics – the texts that shattered ways of thinking about women and men’s roles, gender, sexuality and the structures of the world that reinforce how we live out gender. These readings are taking place on the summer streets of Provincetown as a range of people walk or ride by every few minutes (more video excerpts are on my facebook page). We started by reading from the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s epic The Second Sex. I love the confidence in de Beauvoir’s writing – it is unequivocal, authoritative, [...]
