June 26, 2015 Update Photo essayist/youth archivist Rachelle Lee Smith of visual literacy book Speaking Out will be in town signing copies at Reach and Teach San Mateo tonight 7-9pm. Apropos on this day of historic family diversity with the 5-4 Supreme Court decision ruling that gay couples have the right to marry, as her photos in the book point to the many youth voices not … [Read more...]
Speaking Out: A Rainbow of Reasons We Need Diverse Books
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The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later
Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful day young Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die suffering for six days tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Reason for the hate crime? He … [Read more...]
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Teens and Technology: Countdown to YPulse National Mashup ’08!
“There are people who believe that for-profit marketing and non-profit youth media or education can’t exist in the same place. I disagree. That’s part of the reason why I call these events ‘Mashups,’ said YPulse founder Anastasia Goodstein. “They pull together people who don’t normally attend the same event.” Whoa, I’ll … [Read more...]
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