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Queer movies from around the world

At this year’s online Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival there is a package of shorts called Gender Euphoria.

4:00 Dan suggests that the English language has as many words as there are stars in the sky. Credit Michael J. Bennett, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Thank you for joining us on the High Plains Public Radio Station. My name is Jessica Sadler and I am a Science Teacher and STEAM facilitator in Olathe, Kansas. I am here with the other book leaders to discuss Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn. This is a powerful story written by a white man, with ...

4:00 Credit National Park Service; Photographer: D. Luchsinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I’m in the middle of reading Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads by an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn. This book is part of HPPR’s radio readers book club with the theme cultures in common. I’m only on chapter 5 and there is so much to talk about in this book, but one thing that sticks out to me most recently is the author’s new-found ...

.  This 1993 book still packs a punch, even after nearly three decades after its release.  It is actually the first in a series of three books dealing with Native American issues.  It is a classic road-trip story:  a light-hearted quest with an on-going philosophical debate discussing Native American history, inequalities, and Post-Colonialism traumas.  The three characters create an on-going dialogue between the Colonial (i.e., “white”) and Native perspectives, and the mediation betw...

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by author Ken Nerburn .  In it, two men, one white and one Indian, one middle aged, one an elder, struggle to find a common voice despite their disparate experiences and world views. Dan, a Native American elder, leads Nerburn through reservation life and the majestic western Dakotas deep into the world of Indian towns and forgotten roads that inspire memories of Ghost Dances and Sitting Bull. Readers glimpse and learn of Dan’s wo...

4:00 Hey, you all! It’s 2021—finally!! And HPPR’s Radio Readers is back with a spring read for all of us!  What with all the lessons offered by 2020 (may it rest in peace), we’ve opted for a series of books to help us explore Cultures in a Common Land, as a way to talk about how to live alongside others whose beliefs and ways of being seem not to align with our own.  Know what I mean? To frame our conversations, we’ve chosen a trio of titles – classic titles from the 1990’s cul...

Still from Bring Down the Walls, screening as part of Mardi Gras Film Festival. Image supplied. Mardi Gras Film Festival organisers have announced the program for its 2021 season, which will take place through both socially distanced in-person screenings in Sydney and – for the first time – online, on-demand viewings. This year’s festival will run between February 18 and March 4 and offer 94 feature, documentary, short and episodic films. 70 per cent of those will be available on-demand. ...