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Sesame Street Is Moving to HBO, and the Symbolism Is Crushing

“In short, Sesame Street was founded to help low-income kids keep up with their more affluent peers. That is literally why it exists. It succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations. And now it is becoming the property of a premium cable network, so that a program launched to help poor kids keep up with rich kids is now being paywalled so that rich kids can watch it before poor kids can.

“That in itself is not a tragedy or an injustice. Tragedy is the devastating funding cuts that Head Start has suffered in recent years, affecting tens of thousands of young children. Injustice is the nationwide lack of subsidized high-quality child care and universal pre-K. In this context, relocating Sesame Street to the gated community of HBO—even if that community’s gates swing wide at nine-month intervals—is only to be expected. There could be no more cruelly perfect metaphor for the ultra-efficient sorting processes of socioeconomic privilege.”

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we don’t need to live in this world. we just don’t. there is no beauty in this story other than the beauty of seeing it shared to remind us that we don’t need to live in this world.

How do we change these policies?

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John Leguizamo Says High School History Makes Latino Students Feel ‘Invisible’

Latino contributions to U.S. history remain largely absent from high school history books, and John Leguizamo is doing something about it.

Watch the full interview with John Leguizamo here. 

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For more info: Target Is Making All Of Its Kids’ Stuff Gender Neutral: No more boys’ toys or girls’ bedding

Kerry Washington gives a perfect three part course on how to handle yourself when you are called out for making an offensive statement:

1) Don’t push back 2) Apologize sincerely and quickly 3) Learn from the feedback

It’s that simple people.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

Maya Angelou (via whydoesthe-cagedbird-sing)