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Episode Notes: The Hidden Sheroes of Film Editing from Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond
Watch / Listen The Hidden Sheroes of Film Editing from Hollywood to Bollywood and BeyondDescription: What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant garde filmmaker and cinema studies professor Su Friedrich about the hidden sheroes of film editing, the names you don’t know but ought to know from Hollywood to Bollywood and beyond. Aside from Blanche Sewell, the editor of The Wizard of Oz, and Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese’s editor for over fifty years, th...
Covid-19 Demands A National Reckoning
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class. What explains our failure to build a more caring state? Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. argues that w...
No Medicine for Migrants: Covid-19
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.From farming to food delivery, immigrants perform many of the essential jobs we rely on. And while many undocumented migrants especially are pushed to continue working through the Covid-19 pandemic, they have no access to the healthcare system if they get sick. Patricia Merca...
Episode Notes: Take Back the App!
Watch / Listen: TAKE BACK THE APP!Description: Take Back the App! We need platform co-ops now more than ever. If the 19th and 20th Centuries were about storming the factory and taking back the means of production, then the 21st Century is about storming the online platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and the apps that increasingly control our economy and our lives. Increasingly, we’re living online, controlled and manipulated by secretive, for-profit companies, but there are alternatives. Laura talks with coders, activists and tech en...
Episode Notes: Mutual Aid Justice- Beyond Survival
Watch / Listen: Mutual Aid Justice: Beyond SurvivalDescription: What does mutual aid look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice for help. In the nation that incarcerates more people than any other on earth, there are many reasons why a person might not want to call 911. Undocumented, sick, over-policed, dependent on or in love with an abuser? In this episode, Laura talks with the editors of the just-released book Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories ...
F Word: Covid By The Numbers
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."Want to pay the WHO to fight pandemics and poverty around the world for a decade? One man called Jeff could do it today and still be worth $114.5 billion as he was at the end of last year. "
Contact Tracing in the Stalker State
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Google and Apple have partnered to create a Bluetooth-based app that collects location data to notify users if they’ve come in close contact with anyone who tests positive for Covid-19. Hamid Khan, an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, is sounding an alarm. From...
Platform Cooperatives to Keep Your Data Safe
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Ela Kagel is one of Laura's guests on this week's show, Take Back The App.As the outbreak of Covid-19 has forced everything from birthday parties to staff meetings online, millions of us are now sharing data, personal stories and sensitive information over unregulated...
Checking the Power of Corona-Profiteers: Amazon
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.While much of the US economy is in trouble, the Amazon corporation is not. Orders are surging and workers are coping with increased demands and dangerous conditions in the workplace. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, Amazon’s stepped up its use of third-party suppliers to...
Take Back The App
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.We need platform co-ops now more than ever. If the 19th and 20th centuries were about storming the factory and taking back the means of production, then the 21st century is about storming the online platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and the apps that increasingly c...
Thank You, Bernie. Screw You, New York Times.
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Transcript:It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical dreams and then dance on them. And that’s just what the New York Times did the day after Bernie Sanders bowed out of the Democratic race for the nomination. On that day, in a special editorial, the editors...
Mutual Aid Justice: Beyond Survival
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.What does mutual aid look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice for help. In the nation that incarcerates more people than any other on earth, there are many reasons why a person migh...
Episode Notes: Designing a Future Where Everyone Counts
theLFShow # Research & Reading ListTitle: Designing a Future Where Everyone Counts Watch / ListenDescription: Jutta Treviranus pushes back against cultures, policies, and technologies designed only for those deemed "normal." As founder and director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University in Toronto, Treviranus works to challenge and improve the way we build software, make large scale decisions, andgovern. If only the majority matters, she says, innovation is stifled and there will always be people left marginalized.Re...
Public Ownership of Privatized Medicine: Covid-19
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Dana Brown, Director of the Next System Project frames the motives of privatized medicine in a system, which values profit over people. While nations are racing to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, how can the public gain ownership of big pharma?“We’re really in a situation now ...
Episode Notes: From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution Watch/Listen
Title: From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution Watch/ListenDescription: Since October 2019, people in Lebanon have been protesting corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government ineptitude. Where does that work stand now? Laura talks with Lebanese activist/artist Dayna Ash who runs one of the few safe spaces for LGBTQI+ people and women in the region about her experience of organizing in a melt-down. (theLFShow epis#287)Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:•Forward Thinking On Covid-19: Lebanon•Aja Monet: Revolution...
Public Health vs Public Racism
The tensions revealed by the COVID-19 epidemic are planted deep in the US experience. On the Laura Flanders Show, race and gender scholar Mab Segrest discusses how white supremacy has trumped science throughout American history, with particular focus on the evidence she uncovered in her new book, “Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry. Segrest’s work was the subject of a Laura Flanders Show special feature shortly this March (bit.ly/2UVgvjs). She shared her thoughts on COVID-19 with Laura recently, from h...
We Need to Know Each Other: Covid-19
From public health to remote learning, inclusive design leader Jutta Treviranus says Covid-19 is forcing us to rethink how we design response systems. Where we have the greatest vulnerability, we have the greatest chance for innovation. And that’s what it’s going to take for us to survive. Amazing learning moments are coming out of this, but that will require a lot of un-learning.Treviranus is our guest this week on The LF Show. Check out the full episode on inclusive design here.Prefer to listen? Download the podcast version of this interv...
Episode Notes - Lynching and Lunacy
EP#286: Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American PsychiatryDescription:Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the infamous state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia and visit with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama to consider how our society’s mental and political health relate to history. Segrest’s newest book isAdministrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of Ameri...
Aja Monet: Revolutionary Poetry (Playlist – 4 Videos)
This week's episode of The Laura Flanders Show is all about the intersection of art, identity and revolution. In From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution, Lebanese artist and activist Dayna Ash talks about grassroots organization during the protests in Beirut and founding Haven for Artists, one of the few safe spaces for LGBTQI+ people and women in the region.Aja Monet is a revolutionary poet whose work explores many of the same themes touched upon by Laura and Dayna Ash in their conversation this week. Monet's poetry is ...
Episode Notes: Okwui Okpokwasili - Body Power
Episode Title: OKWUI OKPOKWASILI - BODY POWER - Watch / ListenDescription: Can dance and song offer insight into a performer’s experience, even across race and gender? In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to communicate the lived experiences of African and African American women. Okpokwasili explains how she usesmovement, gesture, and character play to bypass audiences’ preconceived notions and bring visibility to identities rendered invis...
Episode Notes: Raising the Vibrations Against Gender-Based Violence
Title: RAISING VIBRATIONS AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCEWATCH / LISTEN-SubscribeDescription: In this episode, Laura interviews world-renowned playwrightEve Enslerand singer/songwriter Taína Asili aboutOne Billion Rising 2020, a global movement tostop gender-based violenceagainst women and girls by organizing public demonstrations rooted in music and dance. They discuss the role that joyous public movement and song can and must play in soothing trauma, raising awareness, and buildingsolidarity among womenacross the world. (ep #284)Related Laura ...
theLFShow ep283 Research & Reading List
Title: Trump's Wall and the End of the American Frontier - Watch / ListenDescription: In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth:From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. They explore how America's foundational myth of progress has given way to protectionism. Will opposition to the wall finally force us to reckon with the white supremacist conquest the frontier myth has always but thinly veiled? And what can we do to replace destructive myths with pr...
Episode Notes: How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It
Title: How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It - Listen / WatchDescription: In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, media, and business leadership roles is stagnating. In her new book,Diversity, Inc. The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business, award-winning journalist and New York University professor Pamela Newkirk describesthe gap between the rhetoric and the reality where racial equity and inclusion are con...
theLFShow #281 Research & Reading List
Title: The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam Listen / Watch Description: From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura reports from Amsterdam at The Future is Public, a conference that brings together hundreds of organizers, scholars, and government officials who are working to democratize the...
ep280 Research & Reading List
Title: Touretteshero Does BeckettPodcast :: Download the full episode and/or Watch the full episodeDescription: In this episode, Laura interviews British comedian and activist Jess Thom, TourettesHero, about her performance of Samuel Beckett’s play “Not I”. Thom’s work reveals how neurodiversity makes theater, society—everything!— richer.Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:•Alice Sheppard and STREB: Beauty, Risk, Mobility, and Inclusion•Design for Justice: Disabled Hackers are Leading the Way•Special Report: Ableism Out, Inde...
ep279 Research & Reading List
Title: Appropriate Be Damned: Poet Staceyann Chin on her Journey to See Herself as a Poet Worthy of an AnthologyPodcast :: Download the full episode and/or Watch the full episodeDescription: Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Staceyann Chin has just published her first anthology of poems. She has been featured on Broadway, HBO, and Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam and her latest one woman show, MotherStruck, was adapted for film and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. In this episode, Laura interviews Chin about ...
ep278 Research & Reading List
Title: Puerto Rico: Freedom From FantasyDescription: What most Americans know about Puerto Rico is based on a colonial fantasy, saysjournalist and Columbia University professor, Ed Morales. This fantasy, and the realityit obscures, is the subject of his new book,Fantasy Island.In this episode, Laura interviews Morales and scholar/activist Rosa Clemente about the personal and political implications of the island's ongoing debt crisis, recovering from Hurricane Maria, and #RickyRenuncia, the intersectional protest movement that led to the res...
ep274 Research & Reading List
Title: Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New DealDescription:The climate crisis is accelerating faster than expected. This November, 11,000 scientists from 153 countries declared that “We’re reaching potentially irreversible climate tipping points—climate chain reactions that could cause significant disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies...” In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that addressing the climate crisis requires more than si...
theLFShow #271 Research & Reading List
Watch/Listen: Women of Color Lead the Way: Progressive Strategy Summit 2020 PLUS Civil Disobedience w/ Jane FondaGuests: Aimee Allison, She The People; Shelia Jackson Lee, Congresswoman TX-18th; Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter; Mia Ives-Rublee, Women's March Diability Caucus; Jane Fonda, Fire Drill Friday's; Ted Danson, Actor Author; Pramila Jayapal, Congresswoman WA-7thRelated Laura Flanders Show Episodes:Are Women Better at Waging Peace?Mary Robinson: Women Leading In Climate JusticeExtreme Cities: Ground Zero for Climate ChangeRelat...
theLFShow Episode #270 Research & Reading List
Watch/Listen to EP #270 Newark: Fixing The People’s WaterGuests:•Sabre Jordan and Anthony Diaz, Co-Founders of the Newark Water Coalition•Yvette Jordan, a Teacher at Central High School in Newark, New JerseyRelated Laura Flanders Show Episodes:•RISE With Standing Rock•Yes to the People's Movement: Naomi Klein•Cheat, Lie & Steal: Michael Hudson on the Capitalist WayRelated Articles and Resources:•Inside the Fight for Clean Water in Newark •Water Rights Group Calls on Newark Officials to Resist Privatization of City's Wate...
