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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 the content supplied by a Native Elder. Their journey takes place by traveling to many different loc...

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 love and appreciation of the prairie. As a native Kansan it warms my heart to hear the land describe...

.  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 between these two polarized perspectives, which attempts to resolve their differences.  As the story un...