Family.Life is a collaborative project, across 34 educational programs which "explores the feelings, relationships, obstacles, and identities of families across the globe." This media project utilizes photojournalism, film, and art to examine an inclusive understanding of family. It has a library of various projects that explore the concept of family.
Weight Prejudice: Myths & Facts is a 16 minute and 58 second long video from The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. It displays the story of a girl named Bene who is teased by her classmates at school for being overweight. In response to this treatment she receives, Bene creates this educational clip to teach her classmates and others about weight bias. In order to address this issue she speaks of the myths and facts of weight prejudice and shows what it is like to be an adolescent who is victimized due to their weight.
16 minutes and 58 seconds
Submitted with permission by Olivia C.
This is a seven-minute video about Molly Moon Neitzel’s ice cream company, which she built with the goal in mind to “build a company that practiced progressive values” (Vice). The company has implemented the practice of “pay transparency”, where all employee salaries are visible for their coworkers to see. This business practice keeps the company accountable to ensure that there is no income inequality between coworkers who work the same job for the same number of hours.
7 minutes.
Submitted with permission by James L.
What it’s like working at a company where everyone knows your salary, VICE
Queer, working-class activist Amber L. Hollibaugh briefly discusses her life story and work with Queers for Economic Justice. Flanders and Hollibaugh discuss what a radical vision of the LGBTQ movement would entail. They examine how social movements like the LGBTQ movement are shaped by class and racial privilege and the importance of considering desire and the erotic in larger social justice movements.
19 minutes 38 seconds
Amber L. Hollibaugh: The LGBTQ Movement’s Radical Vision YouTube Link