2010
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.
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What is it like to raise a child who’s different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents—asking them: What’s the line between...
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The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.
Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since.
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The purpose of this video is to relay the most sublime teaching of Sunyata—silence beyond any idea of silence, peace beyond any idea of peace, love beyond any idea of love, and the vast emptiness of the omniscience that defies description (gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā).
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Jean Oelwang, president and CEO of Virgin Unite, spent fifteen years interviewing sixty-five prominent pairs, including Ben and Jerry, Leah and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rosalynn and President Jimmy Carter.
You can take a wheelchair just about anywhere. Amy addresses societal perceptions of disability and her vision for how we all change the way we approach disability.
Today we are discussing a popular topic; is it more appropriate to say disabled person or person with a disability (PWD)? Well, it all depends on how an individual identifies, there are strong feelings about each.
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
A grassroots civil-dialogue movement creates a new kind of safe space: one that invites students from across the political spectrum to discuss controversial issues, including policing, gender identity, and free speech itself.
Being an outsider can cause culture shock. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.