Sentences with phrase «about homophobia»

Positioned underneath a headline about homophobia, this work makes the political personal.

If anyone is interested, Chuck Wendig rants about homophobia being the one of reasons someone would give his book a bad grade.

A student at the Harvard Kennedy School who spoke at a recent Ed School discussion about homophobia in schools, Grant was heavily involved with LGBT activism during her undergraduate years.

Still, I would be remiss in my duties if I failed to forewarn that the picture's politically - incorrect brand of humor is apt to offend those sensitive about homophobia, misogyny and the use of the N - word.

There is nothing «okay» about homophobia and it's never «okay» to condone bias - based slurs or hate speech of any kind.

Christine, I think we both talked past one another when speaking about homophobia and assumptions.

«lets talk about your homophobia..

Failed to address homophobia through Safe Schools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resistance.

Not exact matches

EDMONTON — The PCs must stop hiding and tell Albertans what they are going to do about GSAs — voluntary clubs that allow students to organize against homophobia and bullying in schools — before going into an election, said New Democrat leader Rachel Notley.

When the basis for this is our sexual orientation, rather than what we do about it, it is homophobia.

Secondly, it means that we vastly underestimate the problem of clerical homosexuality: this makes us vulnerable to politically correct rubbish about «homophobia», and encourages a desire to be thought enlightened about the problems of «gay men».

Personally, I think a lot of homophobia stems from ignorance about sex in general!

We came up with that in the 90's and the 80 ′ to get at the religious right... what if we don't have a choice, that makes them biggots... If you say you are a gay conservative, suddenly their [the left's] heads explode... It's not about bigotry or homophobia because we could live in a perfect society and in many ways we pretty much do.

Or when I write about an experience of religious homophobia, I'm labeled gay.

I judge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and I judge negative attitudes about the wholeness and value of children and their self - worth.

After I called him out for his homophobia and noted that MY son wore pink all the time, the response was, «Well, I wasn't talking about him.»

The effects of this can last well into adulthood, with six in ten gay and bisexual men and four in ten lesbians and bisexual women saying they would expect to experience homophobia if they took part in a team sport and were open about their sexual orientation.

He said Mr Cameron «talks the talk but he doesn't walk the walk,» and speaking about Tory MPs in general, he said: «A deep strain of homophobia still exists on the Conservative benches».

As for the Anybody But Quinn movement, they never once stooped to sexism or homophobia that I saw or read about.

«It's even more impressive that they are choosing to be open about their sexuality despite the widespread homophobia that continues to be reported around sporting fields, especially among fans.»

Furthermore, Prescod - Weinstein is tentative about being openly gay in the black scientific community where «there is a definite level of homophobia and, by and large, it has been allowed to dominate the setting.»

As if there wasn't enough off - putting about this film, there is an inexplicable current of homophobia running through it,

Though, the way his ethnicity and his feminine features are rolled up with his villainy has the whiff of something off about it, an accidental streak of xeno - or homophobia used as highlighting.

-- Bizarre prejudices seep in that no one can control — like homophobia, lack of interest in a story about minorities, something the critics missed like a downer ending being a problem.

At first they are somewhat polite, although never kind, but their tone soon veers into homophobia and then even more unpleasantness specifically about her being trans.

And «The Shape of Water» is a marvelous movie, an adult fairy tale swimming in truths about racism, homophobia and the fear of the unknown.

Ignorant bullies weaponizing sexism, homophobia and racism deserve to be silenced, and whether they're on the tennis court, inside corporate boardroom or even heaven forbid in the gosh darn White House, it's about time we all follow Billie Jean King's example and do whatever we can to shut them up, hopefully this time for good.

Kwan interviews heterosexual directors Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, and Zhang Yuan (a maverick mainland independent) about their sexual attitudes — and charges Chen's Farewell My Concubine with homophobia, particularly in relation to the Lilian Lee novel it's based on — and in the process bears intelligent witness not only to the changes in sexual sensibility and family values taking place across the Chinese - speaking world, but also to the range and vitality of the recent filmmaking that reflects these changes.

I've been waiting my whole life to see one movie about same - sex first love that was not, on some level, about othering, ostracism, or the oppression of homophobia — a love story that isn't also a de facto issue movie.

Along the way, the series has touched on sexual identity, racism, homophobia, classism — all of which one might think of as «usual suspects,» but nothing is «usual» about «American Crime.»

A movie about the making of an imaginative re-creation of «lost» footage — specifically the hardcore leather - bar scenes cut from William Friedkin's 1980 Cruising — Mathews and Franco's collaboration is notable for an almost complete absence of the homophobia in which Cruising is saturated.

In the midst of all that he thwarts homophobia claims about Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart to take an alternate view of the progressive nature of what their film says about sexual assault.

«There are typical themes that cut across all of the dilemmas the Youth Advisory Board members shared about relationships and loyalty and rules, but the examples that they gave — of drinking and texting and racism and homophobia and transphobia and ableism — we wouldn't have known how to put together.»

Questions laced with homophobia about why a man would want to teach children are rampant.

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN): Since homophobia and heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, GLSEN works to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

How about if parents have an actual discussion with their children about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, and allow their children to decide for themselves what is «right»?

This prompted Denis Farr to write a very brave, personal piece about his own experiences with homophobia over at his blog Vorpal Bunny Ranch, where he explains why such language can not be excused as «just words».

Corruption, political oppression, gendered violence and homophobia are things that African artists like Ousmane Sembene or Zanele Muholi have talked about through their work in the past, sometimes to the point of said work being banned due to controversy in their respective countries.

GLENN LIGON: I started reading hundreds and hundreds of articles about Mapplethorpe, about the issues around censorship and homophobia that his work generated, scholarly commentary.

Second, the conservative blogosphere lit up with a discussion about «Red» Ken's homophobia.

Lest one be pessimistic about the possibility of success, we need to remind ourselves how quickly and thoroughly we have tackled homophobia in Western societies: Whereas gay people were feared, marginalized, and excluded not so long ago, the UK Parliament is now the «queerest legislature in the world», with 32 MPs calling themselves gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

Suggesting this is merely about whether or not a student at TWU can have sex trivializes same - sex relationships in a way that is tediously familiar to anyone who is aware of the history of homophobia and the fight against it.

If you are thinking to yourself this isn't about racism or homophobia or Islamophobia, if you are thinking I just want to know how to help clients in my office, then this message is especially for you.

Lulu is passionate about dismantling patriarchal structures like white supremacy, sexism, and homophobia and she believes mindfulness is a practice that facilitates leaning into these complex and emotional conversations.