#Grants for Documentary

[salembehindbars]

To the untrained eye I may be off-putting and strange and even a loser but to the trained eye, I am a hauntingly esoteric dream girl with a poetic, mysterious aura and a hunger for knowledge.

[local-lover-boy]

I tried using the flash and its kinda cute but mostly I look like the missing teenage girl in a crime documentary

[lavoixhumaine]

swear to heavenly christ Angela Bassett is stressing the ever loving fuck out of me from Queens to Damsel and then next week’s cruise disaster from the butt of Lucifer himself.

fuck i’ve been crying over lion cubs and baby bears being swept away and blind elephants dying. goddamn it, Miss Bassett. you’re literally killing me. i need to fucking medicate!

[petit-papillion]

Grazie @leclercdata for these posts.

[kralmajales]

This week has been so interesting because it’s the first time in years that I’ve been both off work and on working medication . Feels like I’m like… getting to know myself again and realigning with what my passions and priorities are.

[rickchung]

In Vogue: The 90s (prod. Liesel Evans & Jonathan Smith).

Vogue's documentary series dissecting the influence and shifting trends of fashion in the 1990s is peak celebrtiy culture nostalgia. How it employs images and style off the editorial page onto the screen recreates much of our reverence of the time's enduring influence in the design world both sublimely and exhaustively.

[stellaluna33]

I'm sure there are vegans who are knowledgeable about biology and zoology, etc (there HAVE to be. Right?), but I am continuously seeing takes on here that seem to be coming from people who haven't bothered to learn anything about the animals they claim to care about so much, and that is... BREATHTAKINGLY ironic to me. Like the person who claimed that honey is made by grinding up bees in a machine?!! Or that humans "force" them to make it somehow?!! Genuinely WHAT are you TALKING about??? 😭 Watch a nature documentary or read a Wikipedia article or SOMETHING! They make that stuff ON THEIR OWN! This is why historically foraging humans (not to mention FREAKING BEARS!) could find honey LITERALLY DRIPPING out of hollow dead tree stumps in the FREAKING WOODS! This is why people who have accidental bee infestations in their houses have honey oozing out of the freaking walls! They make it to feed their larvae and they almost always make too much! Which is why it oozes out everywhere! To hear "educate yourself" from people who know even less than I do about extremely basic nature science is... Really frustrating?

If you love animals, that's GREAT! Might I suggest expressing that by learning about them before forming an opinion about what they need?

[keanuquotes]

FULLY RECOMMEND.

[writerofscreen]

[mycological-mariner]

So I downloaded and watched half of The Last Place on Earth and while I have Thoughts, I dropped them when I kept getting jump scared by the cast

[evilbubu]

when I tell you I currently have a cold in JULY!!!! I've also been having nosebleeds, twice everyday for the past 3 days. Bro, I am legit fighting demons.

[granthindsley]

Sam, Burien, Wash. 2022.

[molemoon]

Headcanon: Layla has alopecia

I posted this on discord, @usaigi said I should post on here so here goes:

Not so much a headcanon so much as something that would be interesting to explore, but May Calamawy has alopecia (which is why they gave it to her character in Ramy) and now I’m imagining Layla with alopecia. She strikes me as someone who always wants to be in control of a situation, and it would be hard for her to accept something out of her control. It’s often triggered by stress, so I’m imagining it could happen after the death of her father.

When she meets Marc, she hides it because she doesn’t want him to see her as weak. For Layla, she’d probably see any bald patches as a physical representation of her stress, which would be hard for her as she wants to suppress that. She always keeps her hair tied up to cover any patches, and at one point while they’re dating he says he’d love to see what it looks like down. She refuses, but doesn’t tell him why. He doesn’t mention it again, because he doesn’t want to push boundaries, but it sticks with Layla because she knows how beautiful her hair looks when it’s down. She wants to show him, but she’s afraid of showing what she sees as an imperfection.

One day, after a mission together, full of adrenaline, she takes her hair down and shows him the patches. He kisses them and says they’re beautiful, just as Layla knew he would, but the real battle was letting him see her be vulnerable.

It comes back post-cairo, as alopecia often appears as a delayed reaction to stress, and she has to go through it again with Steven. She refuses to let Marc tell steven, and goes back to hiding the patches and pinning her hair up, not letting either of them touch it. Steven can see she’s unhappy, but doesn’t know why. He tries to help her feel better by cooking for her, buying her new books, taking her to art galleries etc. It just makes her feel worse, because now she feels like she’s upsetting him.

Marc keeps it a secret from Steven because he promised Layla that he would, but she won’t let him see it in case Steven is there too. He tells her that she’s beautiful, that it doesn’t make her weak and that Steven won’t see it like that, but she’s still affected by it. Eventually she decides to stop hiding it. Steven immediately points it out with absolutely zero tact and says he thinks the pattern is really pretty, and it’s so obvious that he believes it that it helps her to believe it too.

[californiastatelibrary]

$5 Million in State Funding Available to Ethnic Media Groups for Hate Crime Outreach

[Sacramento, Calif.] — Grants totaling $5 million are available through the California State Library for ethnic media outlets serving communities historically vulnerable to hate crimes and incidents.

The purpose of the grants is to increase public awareness of the California Department of Social Services' Stop the Hate Program. The Stop the Hate Program provides support and services to survivors of hate crimes and incidents and their families.

The grants can be used to pay for reporters, fellowships, and internships at ethnic media outlets, news briefings and roundtables, digital and social media content, community gatherings and partnerships with grassroots organizations and Community Based Organizations. Grant awards range from $40,000 to $400,000.

Past grantees include media outlets and organizations serving California’s Asian American and Pacific Islander, Latino, Black, Native American and LGBTQ+ communities. Examples of projects being conducted by current grantees can be found on the State Library website.

“California’s diversity is our superpower,” said Greg Lucas, California’s State Librarian. “Helping local media outlets ‘Stop the Hate’ strengthens all of our communities.”

According to the California Department of Justice’s 2021 Hate Crime in California Report, hate crime events increased 32.6% from 1,330 in 2020 to 1,763 in 2021.

A total of $15 million in grants for ethnic media outlets was included in the Asian and Pacific Islander Equity Budget of 2021, a three-year investment of $166.5 million to fund critical resources and services in response to the sharp rise in hate incidents and hate crimes.

This is the second round of funding for ethnic media outlets. In May 2022, the California State Library awarded nearly $6 million in grants to 50 ethnic media outlets and collaboratives. A complete list of last year’s grantees can be found in the May 2022 press release.

For more information, visit the Ethnic Media Outreach Grants page on our website. Applications are due by 5:00 PM PST on Monday, March 14, 2023.

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[prairie-tales]

This is the documentary which has piqued my interest in the 'Wild West'. The excellent ‘American Nomads’ from 2011 by Richard Grant. It took eight years to make and is based on his book ‘Ghost Riders: Travels With American Nomads’ (2003) which I am currently thoroughly enjoying (when I can muster up sufficient levels of concentration).

Being a geek, I transcribed some passages of particular interest. E.g.:

People have this idea that the West was won by heroic cowboys and that kind of thing - you get this idea from movies and mythology, but the key factors in the taming of the West were (1): disease, microbes, small pox [see my post about ‘William Penn’s Treaty With The Indians’ for the story of how Native Americans were given deliberately infected rolls of cloth by white traders] - that’s what really wiped out the nomadic tribes on the plains, these diseases which they had no resistance to. And (2) another really important factor was the invention of barbed wire fences. Fences restricted the free movement of animals and people, and enforced the new idea of private property. The nomadic Indian tribes hated fences. So did the nomadic trail cowboys who had grazed their herds up and down the plains. Now the damn things are everywhere.

So, the era of horseback nomads came to an end. The tribes were corralled on reservations. Railroads came, bringing their “iron horse” and in time the railroads produced a new and distinctly American form of nomadism. Transient labourers started riding the freight trains as a way to get to one harvest to the next. They were called ‘hobos’ and their hungry heyday was the Great Depression of the 1930s. After the Great Depression, America forgot about the hobos and tramps on its freight trains, but they never went away. At best guess, 20,000 people are still riding around on America’s freight trains.

Grant used to travel this way himself, but gave it up as it’s uncomfortable and dangerous. People have been known to lose limbs when trying to jump on to a moving train, only to fall and become trapped under its wheels.