World’s Apart by Heineken
Campaign by Heineken to diminish the lines that separate us. Article here, great video here. [Thanks for sending this along Chloe!]
The Creepy Line – Social Media’s manipulation of society
A documentary providing a critical look at the influence of Google and Facebook.
Living Nonbinary in a Binary Sports World
From Sports Illustrated, “While many trans athletes have become political lightning rods, nonbinary people like the WNBA’s Layshia Clarendon are left out of the conversation. In a [...]
You’ve likely never heard of the only woman drafted into the NBA – and that’s fine by her
“The Canadian director Ben Proudfoot’s film The Queen of Basketball (2021) is a stylish look at Harris’s life and legacy, including how she became the only woman officially drafted into the [...]
Crip Camp and the Roots of Disability Activism in the US
From the description in the Tyee “In the opening scenes of Crip Camp, a documentary available on Netflix, school buses pull into the entrance of Jened, a summer camp in the New York [...]
When two punk bands came to a psychiatric hospital, beautiful chaos ensued
A great video on music, mental health, and acceptance.
In India some devout Hindus seek liberation from cycles of rebirth at “Death Hotels”
From the documentary description: “Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus go to die in hopes of [...]
White Right: Meeting the Enemy
A new documentary from Deeyah Khan about Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists in the USA. Not easy to watch, but that is when you know you have to. Available here. For my students, there is so much [...]
Critical Care: American vs. the World
Here is a good PBS documentary on the US medical system (Canadian experience with COVID-19 around the 45 minute mark), as well as a 2020 report from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.