Check out IndyVideo’s newest vid: Sean Bell: 50 Shots and Counting. It looks at the institutionalize racism behind the shootings and what activists are doing about it. Featuring interviews with Nicholas Powers and Carl Dix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoyIApkNi-8 read more »

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“How do you get the stories you want in to the paper?” she questioned. “This is a universal issue.” read more »

New MVL Film: Going Big Box vs. Going Local Hey Indy fans, check out the video I created with The Movement Vision Lab. Films like these are why I have not been writing a sex column. By the way, write me if you want to be our next sex columnist: awolf@indypendent.org http://www.alternet.org/blogs/workplace/73239/ This film also is the [...] read more »

In “Rapping at Fear,” 13-year-old Andrés Tabares tells the story of his family being forced by militias to move off of their farm in rural Columbia to Bogotá. Using animation, rap and a rap-video format, Tabares, who has adapted exceedingly well to city life, shares his acute observations that “here everything comes in bags,” and “if you have money, you buy stuff, if you don’t, you can’t.” The bright colors and simple figures were a powerful and bizarre treatment of a child’s memory of terror. The film was co-produced by youth media network Listen Up!, a group that connects youth producers with opportunities and support internationally. read more »

Once prescribed as the remedy for a bad day at work, shopping is now touted as the cure for global warming. Worried about your large carbon footprint? the New York Times recently did a feature on the greenest luxury condos. Concerned about junior’s garments? Plenty, a magazine devoted to green living, offers up new eco-baby gear made of organic cottons and non-toxic plastics. read more »

Lots of Photos! How does The Indy get produced and distributed? you ask. Love, dedication and very little money. If you care to support the newspaper, your contribution will go extremely far. One of those bundles that Jessica is loading into the trunk costs 10 bucks to print. Just think how many papers we could print if you you contribute $1000. For that size contribution you can have dinner with Jessica, Amy (not pictured) for that matter, hell, maybe Bennett will tag along too. Chris (also not pictured) will cook it, or we can choose to go out. Seriously though, we would probably have dinner with you for $750. read more »

Title V is based on ideologies that dictate that “a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of all human sexual activity” and that “sexual activity outside the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects.” Leslee J. Unruh, head of the South Dakota-based Abstinence Clearinghouse, states, “There are kids who don’t want to know how to put on a condom, because they don’t want to have sex.” read more »

Steve Lambert challenged the appropriation of public space by corporate advertisers in his latest piece, “Light Criticism,” by pasting cardboard stencils over video advertising monitors at subway entrances. The stencil, illuminated by the light from the monitors, read, “NYC’s True Graffiti Problem.” The video documentation of this project garnered more than 100,000 hits in the first week. This piece is reminiscent of Paper Tiger Television’s use of cellophane with anti-advertising messages placed over a television screen in its 1985 broadcast from the Whitney Museum. read more »

“If Golden and Keroack had their way, a 55-year-old woman, recently divorced and seeking family planning services, would be told that her expected standard of behavior is no sex outside of marriage,” says Bill Smith, vice president of public policy at the Sexuality Information and Educational Council of the United States (SIECUS). read more »

Indypendent Journalists, Photographers and Designers won 8 awards at the 2006 Ippies. Links to award-winning articles in story. read more »

Unlike other docs on the aftermath of Katrina, Alderer chose not to blame FEMA or the Bush administration. In fact at one point one of the brothers confesses that if he had listened to the government he wouldn’t be in this mess. read more »

Thurs Nov 2 7pm • $5-7.00 DISCUSSION: “RADICAL COMMUNITY HEALTH.” The Rock Dove Collective is a network of health practitioners willing to offer their services for no and low cost to individuals or communities in need. W/members of the Rock Dove Collective discussing its mission & vision, in the hopes that a group of like-minded people might [...] read more »

It’s like going into a neighborhood video store that just happens to have a huge porn room in the back. Kelly Rued is the founder of Black Love Interactive and is launching Rapture Online, an alternative to Second Life, in 2007. “Our design team is all women,” Rued says, “so that might explain the broad, multi-faceted view of eroticism in Rapture Online. There will be plenty of romance, fantasy and story, which is rare in explicit sex gaming.” read more »

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Critics have taken the Mermaid Parade to task for promoting nothing more than beauty-pageant feminism; clearly exhibited in a pod of French Mer-Maids. Those who parade tend to see it in a more sex-positive light. “I have big tits and I love them and I like to show 'em. I love the creativity of the nudity” said Sarah Kornbluth of Brooklyn. read more »

Judith Levine of Sexuality Information and Education Council for the United States (SIECUS) argues that there is a natural tendency of abstinence educators to escalate their messages: “Like advertising, which must continually jack up its seduction just to stay visible as other advertising proliferates, abstinence education had to make sex scarier and scarier and, at the same time, chastity sweeter.” read more »

The extreme right has fought for the right to torture me, to spy on me without warrant, and to take away my right to govern my own body. read more »

A Review of Maureen Dowd's "Are Men Necessary?" read more »

ALEX: I was very sexually inexperienced. I was a virgin... by the time I hit the prisons, I was just starting to get more open with my sexuality. But after day two of being there, I shut down completely. I still consider myself recovering from what happened to me in prison. read more »

Premarital sex didn’t make the short list of sins worth repenting, at least not in the prayer books handed out at Kolot Chayeinu, a progressive Park Slope congregation. Deceit, jealousy, arrogance and even cynicism made the cut, but not sex. read more »

“Have you ever put your penis in a female or males rectum or butt (also known as anal sex)?” “Has a male ever put his mouth on your vagina,(also known as cunnilingus)?” — Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Survey of Family Growth, released Sept 15, 2005. The above are just two inquiries posed to 12,571 men and women ages [...] read more »

Nudity is the ultimate expression of the personal and intimate. Public nudity is a rejection of the hypocracy, materialism, and moral authoritarianism promoted through the state. read more »

The Museum of Sex or MOSex was the first museum I attended as a tax-paying tenant in New York City. Passing by I couldn’t resist the allure of old hustler magazines and porn from the dawn of time, all cloaked in the safe warmth of academic legitimacy. Although it’s certainly not the first sex museum, MOSex founder Daniel Gluck desired nothing less than to produce the “Smithsonian of sex.” Maybe the crew cuts at the Air and Space Museum will circulate a petition to let the sexperts join the club. read more »

Good sex films will help open up different possibilities and relieve you of sole responsibility for your dirty, dirty thoughts. The trick is finding the right film. read more »

Unlike her Biblical namesake, 16-year-old Maria – a Latina immigrant to Queens – is certifiably not a virgin. Immaculate Perception is a short poetic film that explores the all-too-common, but profound, conundrum facing young women who find themselves pregnant. Director Mario Pinzon edits dreamlike cadences with a powerful grasp of color, texture and the semiotics of innocence. (19 MINUTES) 3RD EYE PRODUCTIONS read more »