Sanders emphasizes that creating a future to believe in depends on grassroots organizing, adapting laws to protect the vulnerable, challenging the power brokers, and working collaboratively.
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Aug
Aug
I got off to a slow start with Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, until I found some passages that almost made my heart stop. Most of my college English Lit classes bored me, so it was nice to experience a stellar English professor through his collection of sixteen essays, akin to a […]
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May
May
However, as a work of fiction, it stands as exquisitely powerful storytelling of a woman who willingly gave up everything in her world, except for her job, for a relationship with a man that had nothing to do with intimacy and everything to do with chasing a high.
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Jan
Jan
The Cheerleader captures what it feels like to be a teen and trying to figure out who you will become as an adult as well as the intensity of discovering and coming to terms with your sexuality.
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May
May
May, mental health awareness month, makes me more aware than usual of the standard narrative that goes along with mental health—medication and therapy are the fixes. This May 60 Minutes aired U.S. kids grappling with mental health crisis made worse by the pandemic and it focused on the months-long wait time for teens to receive […]
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May
May
Netflix nailed handling how the nuances of racism played out in the two-hour documentary The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie and Fitch yet failed to address the mental health and addiction issues in the 2022 four-hour long Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. docuseries. Bad Vegan focuses on the rise and fall of New York City […]
Author Dana Spiotta noted So’s ease with traversing so many different subjects, “from pop culture to genocide to the deep tentacles of the family romance with unfailing precision, wit, and sensitivity.”
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Jan
Jan
How teachers are characterized in the 2007 movie Freedom Writers makes me jump out of my skin. Freedom Writers portrays the four years brand new teacher Erin Gruwell taught English at Long Beach, California’s Wilson High School. It is highly unusual for a teacher to have the same students for English classes all four years […]
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Dec
Dec
What would it sound like if you were singing for your life? Singing to stay alive? Paris Winningham’s voice has been haunting me this season of The Voice. The semi-finals are tonight. The competition is down to eight singers. Vote for Paris at NBC.com or by downloading The Voice app. Between my daytime job, writing […]
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Nov
Nov
Former mayor of Stockton Michael Tubbs gave a recent interview to the Los Angeles Times regarding his new memoir The Deeper the Roots. He talks about learning from rejection, “‘Nos’ are such a gift,” he says. “Not the ‘no’ in and of itself, but what you learn from the ‘no.’”
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