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Right-wing activists taunt professor with homophobic questions, then shove him to the ground. ASU President Michael Crow called them “cowardly bullies."

"The heteronormative life I’d chosen was largely a big f**k you to my mother. But in my attempt to be different from her, I inadvertently rejected parts of myself."

Unapologetic about their blackness, in ways that really hadnt been seen, like, on prime-time television, before. >> so, next saturday, when you turn 13, youre becoming a man, too. a black man because im throwing you an african rites of passage ceremony. >> that does not sound as fun. >> no, it does not. >> blackish was a show that was really good at talking about individual social issues, in a way we hadnt really seen since norman lear. >> and that leads us right up to the free boot of norman le...

Like queer issues. >> when are we ok with telling him. >> hey, i like girls. >> youll have something in common. >> theres ptsz, depression. >> whatd he call you? >> he called me a build the world. >> oh, my god. >> i think it allows audiences to have the conversations. >> even these days in this openly racist world, i want us to never have an incident. >> your brother are of different shades. >> yes. >> if you put something in your show thats shocking and ra radical, the hope is that in five yea...

Is unapologetic about their blackness in ways that hadnt been seen in primetime television before. >> so, next saturday, when you turn 13 youre becoming a man, too. a black man, because im throwing you an african rites of passage ceremony. >> that does not sound as fun. >> no, it does not. >> black-ish was a show that was really good talking about individual social issues in a way we hadnt seen since norman lear. >> that led us up to the free boot of norman lears classic "one day at a time." >> ...

Prime-time television, before. >> so, next saturday, when you turn 13, youre becoming a man, too. a black man because im throwing you an african rites of passage ceremony. >> that does not sound as fun. >> no, it does not. #. >> blackish was a show that was really good at talking about individual-social issues, in a way we hadnt really seen since norman lear. >> and that leads us right up to the free boot of norman lears 1970s classic "one day at a time." >> i get it, were cuban. >> follows thre...

At a time. >> i get it! were cuban. >> it follows three generations of latinas. everything that we would get into as a normal family but it also tackles a lot of things that are going on in the world that normally are see as taboo, like queer issues. >> how are we at telling him? >> its ok. >> i like girls. >> we have something in common. >> theres ptsd with the mom, anxiety and depression. >> what did he call you? >> build the wall. >> oh, my god. >> i think it allows audiences to have those co...

Before. >> so next saturday when you turn 13, youre becoming a man too. a black man because im throwing you an african rites of passage ceremony. >> that does not sound as fun. >> no, it does not. >> "black-ish" was a show that was really good at talking about individual social issues in a way we hadnt really seen since norman loear. >> i get it. were cuban. >> it follows three generations of latinas. everything that we would get into as a normal family, but then it also tackles a lot of things ...

In Human-Made Society Eva Rún Snorradóttir illuminates lesbian parenthood and partnership in this poem from the 2018 Maístjarnan Award-winning collection Seeds that Impregnate the Darkness.   Two women sit on a little sofa in an office on the outskirts of the capital. Across from them, behind a desk, sits an elderly man in a white coat. A map showing the inner topography of the vagina is plastered on the wall behind him. They’d argued with the cab driver on the way. He’d been driving a ...