MOVIE

Adaptation.

2002

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

115 min

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Why Experiencing Culture Shock is a Good Thing for Young Adults

Faced with an environment that is not their own while apart from family and friends, young adults and teens will be forced to overcome obstacles and problem-solve on their own.

Danielle Desimone

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Are Americans Obsessed with Race and Gender? | Middle Ground

A group of young Americans from various racial and gender backgrounds discuss some of the most controversial topics regarding racial and gender identity and discrimination.

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How Latin America’s Obsession With Whiteness Is Hurting Us

Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.

Johanna Ferreira

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The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity

Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Black Skin, White Masks

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work.

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FindCenter Quotes Image I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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FindCenter Quotes Image Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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Lucille Clifton & Sonia Sanchez: Mirrors & Windows

Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.

Lucille Clifton

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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

For decades, Gloria Steinem has led a social revolution against injustice. In Revolution from Within, she sets out to restore the authority and self-confidence that such injustice has undermined.

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Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo (foreword)

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