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221) Perfect 14
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A PERFECT 14 explores the worldwide of plus size models fighting to reshape the fashion industry and the beauty standards of society, holding fashion industry leaders accountable for their responsibility in size-based segregation.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For pregnant women facing addiction, recovery is a family affair rife with judgment, stigma and plenty of obstacles along the way. ORIGINAL BODY OF PAIN captures the intense and often generational nature of addiction through portraits of two women trying to escape its clutches and a nurse dealing with the medical consequences. But infant drug withdrawals, relapses, and incarcerations will test their resolve and threaten their families' futures as...
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
OVER 18 is a clear-eyed examination of modern pornography and its effects on kids, teens, parents, and porn stars. In addition to interviews with porn producers, ex-porn stars, and academics, filmmakers Jared and Michelle Brock highlight the story of Joseph, a 13-year-old boy who is recovering from a porn addiction that he fell into when he was nine years old.. OVER 18 compares the porn of the magazine era with what it has become in the age of the...
225) Bias
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The toxic effects of bias make headlines every day: sexual harassment, racial profiling, the pay gap. As humans, we are biased. Yet few of us are willing to admit it. We confidently make snap judgments, but we are shockingly unaware of the impact our assumptions have on those around us. The documentary feature 'BIAS' follows filmmaker Robin Hauser on a journey to uncover her hidden biases and explore how unconscious bias defines relationships, workplaces,...
226) Visible Silence
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A rare glimpse into the unspoken lives of Thai toms, dees and lesbians striving for recognition, authenticity, and acceptance in a traditional Buddhist society. It is an intimate story of self and family, love and sexuality, and self-determination where conformity is prized. VISIBLE SILENCE highlights the experience of masculine women (toms) who visibly transgress gender norms, yet are bound to remain silent about who they really are. It gives voice...
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. Richly illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz - the award-winning creators of the videos Dreamworlds and Tough Guise, respectively - offer a...
228) Privilege
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Yvonne Rainer's sixth feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Rainer has fashioned a witty, risky work about sexual identity and the unequal economies of race, gender and class. Winner of the Filmmakers Trophy in the Dramatic Category at the **Sundance Film Festival.**
229) Queen MiMi
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This heartwarming documentary profiles Marie Haist, a formerly homeless Los Angeles woman who lives in a laundromat and has befriended celebrities. She fled an unhappy marriage, lives in a laundromat and has no home or money. But to know her is to adore her. Marie "Mimi" Haist defied her adulterous husband and moved onto the streets in her 50s, living in parking lots and doorways until finding her "home" one stormy night between rows of washers in...
231) Mask of shadows
Author
Series
Mask of shadows duology volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
The gender fluid thief Sal Leon enters a competition to become a replacement member of the Left Hand--a quartet of the Queen's personal assassins--but must first survive the training and the contests while putting the reason for auditioning into motion--revenge.
232) Can't take that away
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like critical race theory, gender equity in the workplace, and LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms, many of us are understandably fearful of saying the wrong thing. That fear can sometimes prevent us from speaking up at all, depriving people from marginalized groups of support and stalling progress toward a more just...
Author
Language
English
Description
"SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man." "Find out what happened to Roy," Casey's grandma implored....
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the troubling age of sex-denialism--the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference. In her debut book Sex Scandal, journalist Ashley McGuire investigates the alarming nationwide push to ignore the natural, biological distinctions between men and women that have been at the core of functioning human society since the dawn of time. McGuire reports shocking examples...
238) Bury it
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Bury it begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Frank, friendly, and funny, the Trans Teen Survival Guide will inform, empower, and arm you with all the tips, confidence, and practical advice needed to navigate life as a trans teen. Wondering how to come out to your family and friends, what it's like to go through cross-hormonal therapy, or how to put on a packer? Trans youth activists Owl and Fox have stepped in to answer everything that trans teens and their families need to know. With a focus...
Author
Publisher
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Advance gender equality one family at a time. Pediatrician and mother of four Dr. Shelly Flais gives parents the tools they need to start the lifelong process of raising their boys into men who are mentally healthy, empathetic, and committed to gender equality. Dr. Flais provides concrete techniques for parents to push back against cultural stereotypes and toxic masculinity as they nurture their sons. Because "kids do as they see," the work of being...
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