The #UnitedStates government pours billions of dollars into private detention facilities. New data shows how political donations from these for-profit companies influence policymakers to support anti-immigrant legislation. University of New Mexico associate professor Loren Collingwood talks about his findings, emotionally shares why they matter, and lays out what he sees as a better way forward.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-the-prison-industrial-complex-undermines-immigrant-rights/
‘There have been so many important critiques of the nude in art history,’ writer, art curator and The New School PhD candidate Macushla Robinson tells us in our latest #podcast, and she’s added her own critique in the form of an upcoming book project.
‘Every Rape at the Met Museum’ digs into the way sexual violence has been publicly displayed and even artistically praised in exhibition and catalogues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In this candid conversation, Robinson explains how the images of women on art museum walls, and the bodies of women in the art world today, are subject to misogyny and sexual violence.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/art-curator-aesthetic-political-critique-nudes-art-history/
#Broadway is back after closing 18 months ago. In our #podcast, we speak to actors, writers and directors about what the break meant for their careers. Doron JePaul Mitchell tells us he found time to breathe and reconsider his work as an actor.
In our latest podcast, we speak to actors, writers and directors about what the break meant for their lives and work.
Thanks to #covid_19, actor Hiram Delgado has been waiting to make his #broadway debut since being cast in 'Take Me Out' three years ago. But he tells us the pandemic has turned him into a more discerning artist.
https://bit.ly/3A2Euja
After the lights went out over a year ago due to #covid_19, Ben Cameron is excited that Broadway is back. But, in order to share the magic of the theater with new audiences, he says they need to see themselves in it.
https://bit.ly/3A2Euja
When everything closed for the #Covid_19 pandemic, Zoey Martinson wrote for Betty on HBO. In our podcast about the re-opening of #theater, she explains why #Broadway has never been her goal.
On our latest podcast, Nora Kenworthy, #gofundme researcher, and associate professor of nursing and health studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, says that shame and high failure rates of campaigns raise “some really unanswered questions for all of us that we need to pay attention to." #Listen https://bit.ly/2W0phkz
Conflicts in #Myanmar, #Ethiopia and #Afghanistan put women’s lives in danger, but Zarqa Yaftali, Fanaye Solomon and Thinzar Shunlei Yi are committed to peace and progress, despite the risk they take on.
Gender-based violence expert Dorcas Erskine urges you to listen to their voices on our latest podcast. https://bit.ly/3yzlitk 🖤
In our latest podcast, Pillars’ Fund’s Arij Mikati and Kalia Abiade join us to discuss their latest study Missing and Maligned: The Reality of Muslims in Popular Global Movies - a collaboration between academics and Hollywood stars who have come together to end negative portrayals of #Muslims on screen. https://bit.ly/2UT1SRb
👂🏼New Podcast!👂🏼
Pillars Fund’s Kalia Abiade and Arij Mikati tell us why a recent study about #Muslim representation in #film proves what they've long felt - and what the industry needs to do about it. https://bit.ly/2UT1SRb
Dr. Sophia Yen is the co-founder and CEO of Pandia Health, a doctor-led, women-founded, women-led birth control delivery service.
In our latest podcast, Dr. Yen shares what years of experience in #womenshealth have taught her, for example, #periodsoptional, and discusses the sexism and doubt she’s confronted raising funds for her company.
Please listen at https://bit.ly/3wosckc, or wherever you get your podcasts. 🙏🏽
“We can manage and interpret our own culture,” says Alyce Sadongei, co-director of the Doris Duke Native Oral History Revitalization Project at the Arizona State Museum, Arizona State University. “We don’t have to have someone else do it for us.”
In our new #podcast, Sadongei both celebrates and critiques the project’s work, and talks about why museums are problematic to many tribes she worked with when she was a #museum professional at the Smithsonian. https://bit.ly/3nRJ13D
In our latest podcast, Jocelyn Jackson, founder of Justus Kitchen, and co-founder of the People's Kitchen Collective, shares why the communal meals they host matter to their Bay Area community. As a recent recipient of a $100,000 unrestricted funds fellowship from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Jackson discusses how artists can be better supported by organizations, and says there’s a need to move beyond transactional relationships. And she sings too! https://bit.ly/3nFet52
In our latest #podcast, meet Leah Lizarondo, founder and CEO of Food Rescue Hero. Think of it like an altruistic Uber Eats. But Lizarondo explains why it's more than just an app; it’s a movement.
https://bit.ly/2QmCMbu
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Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the climate crisis, but activists like Evelyn Acham from #Uganda find it hard to fight for #climateaction when people around her are just trying to survive.
Many know Greta Thunberg. But in our new podcast, South African scientist Ndoni Mcunu and Ugandan activist Evelyn Acham say the world needs to pay more attention to the work of Africans like Vanessa Nakate who are inspiring a call for #climateaction.
Please listen, and shout out other names we should know. https://bit.ly/3s32ajx
