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Florida school district must return LGBTQ books to libraries after settlement
A school district in northeastern Florida must return three dozen books related to race and the LGBTQ community to school libraries as part of a settlement reached Thursday with authors, parents and students. The Nassau County School Board removed 36 books last year after the titles were challenged by Citizens Defending Freedom, a conservative advocacy […]
GLAAD finds overall decline in LGBTQ representation in major studio films
GLAAD, the LGBTQ media advocacy organization, has released its 12th annual Studio Responsibility Index tracking films released during 2023. Despite “a huge increase in LGBTQ characters who were front and center in their own narratives,” the study found the number of films with LGBTQ characters dropped in 2023. The survey looked at 256 films from 10 major […]
Meta To Ban Russian State Media From All Platforms
The New York Times reports: Meta on Monday said that it planned to bar Russian media outlets including RT, the state-owned television network that has come under scrutiny in the United States, from posting to its platforms, saying the outlets had carried out covert influence campaigns across social media sites to manipulate discourse online. Meta, which owns […]
Local News
WORKSHOP AT PEPPERWOOD INSPIRES CONNECTIONS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH EXPLORING ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
Sebastopol songwriter Anne Carol Mitchell aka Brightdarkdawn, who writes music inspired by ecology and conservation, is teaching a day-long, collaborative workshop with Pepperwood’s Education Program Manager, Holland Gistelli. The workshop, Nature as Muse: Songwriting with the Land, will take place at Pepperwood Preserve on Saturday, October 19th. Mitchell and Gistelli are providing a workshop to […]
Arts & Entertainment
Forbidden Kiss LIVE – Evening in Paris Happens Saturday Night at The California in Santa Rosa
Forbidden Kiss LIVE – Evening in Paris is our tribute to the joyous embrace of sensuality and sexuality that abounds in the City of Light. Cheryl King hosts this evening of bawdy vaudeville featuring the comic musical stylings of Karenna Slade, burlesque from Velvet Thorn, spoken word from Los Angeleno Marlene Nichols, Improvisation with Russ […]
