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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sometimes, suspense is overwhelming. Who would win that first season of \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>? Who would win the presidential election? Will the bread dough rise? Will it rain on your birthday party?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suspense was not overwhelming when we asked our listeners to rank the friends of \u003cem>Friends \u003c/em>from best to worst, at least in one regard: We suspected Ross would come in last and be named Worst Friend. And it was true. Let’s talk about the way our listeners ranked the Friends, beginning with Ross and working our way up to your BFoFF—Best Friend on \u003cem>Friends \u003c/em>Forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Just a note: As it turned out, these calculations weren’t complex. The ranking of who received the most votes for Best Friend was the exact opposite of the ranking of who received the most votes for Worst Friend. So Ross received both the most Worst Friend votes and the fewest Best Friend votes, and so on.]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>6. Ross\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ross got very mopey over the show’s ten seasons, and he developed a temper at one point and started yelling at his co-workers, and he said Rachel’s name during his wedding to Emily, and it took him forever to stop resenting Susan for being married to Carol, and so forth and so on. But I must say, I was still impressed to see that Ross received 76 percent of the thousands of votes for Worst Friend that came in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s so many! That means that if the other five Friends were statistically similar to our listeners, 3.8 of them would have thought he was the worst one in the group! Hopefully, Monica wouldn’t, since that’s his sister, so out of the four Friends he’s not related to, only .2 people—like, just Phoebe’s arm—picked anybody other than Ross as Worst Friend! Maybe he should have abandoned the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67RYI_0sc0&ab_channel=TheGodAccount\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pivot Couch\u003c/a> earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"A pregnant Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) lies in a hospital bed, with Ross (David Schwimmer) at her bedside..\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-1536x1007.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-2048x1342.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Ross (David Schwimmer). \u003ccite>(Warner Bros. Television/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>5. Rachel\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This one surprised me a little more! I grew to appreciate Rachel’s goofy sense of humor, but it’s true that in the beginning, she was presented as spoiled and self-interested, obsessed with shopping and buying and reluctant to abandon her father’s credit cards. Over time, I think Jennifer Aniston’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqAWNVHBwo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offbeat comic energy\u003c/a> gave Rachel a highly necessary jolt of strangeness, and I will never tire of her warm friendship with Joey, which led to such highlights as their exchanging their favorite books. Putting \u003cem>Little Women \u003c/em>in the freezer was maybe the most Joey thing to ever happen, and it was Rachel who understood best that he needed to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Monica\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I think Monica fell into a little bit of the TV writing problem in which competence, especially in women, is easily exaggerated until it becomes a kind of neurotic unpleasantness (the same thing happened to Rebecca, played by Kirstie Alley, on \u003cem>Cheers\u003c/em>). In the early going, Monica was the nurturer, the mom, the host, the adult. Over time, especially after she and Chandler were married (…spoiler alert?), she got kind of mean and critical in a different way I enjoyed a lot less. I think early Monica would have fared better if she hadn’t been saddled with the problems of later Monica, much as I think later Rachel would have done better in our vote without the limitations of early Rachel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday, Wasabi, a Pekingese with the flowing locks of Beyoncé and the face of \u003ca href=\"https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Eric_Cartman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Cartman\u003c/a>, won Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show. To casual observers, that decision made perfect sense. Look at that form! Look at that bounce! Look at that \u003cem>hair flip\u003c/em>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/soxfanmap/status/1404272818276163584\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For pedigree dog aficionados, however, Wasabi’s victory was a bonafide upset. To start, the three-year-old floof-mobile was only the fifth Pekingese to win the competition in 145 years. As such, these snub-legged hair farms aren’t held in particularly high regard by dog snobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DaveNye7/status/1404274206553083906\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/phorvath/status/1404273840709013505\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dog Twitter also piled onto this Very Good Boy almost immediately, in an attempt to diminish his shine, his style and his stature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bwong25/status/1404275981146157059\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LMM1062/status/1404274296252424194\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SeanNeutron/status/1404270001062924296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main upset though, was the fact that Striker the Samoyed had been the favorite to win. (Maybe because, unlike Wasabi, he has ears and facial features..?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/dianeeldredge99/status/1404469914228854785\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody should be all that worried about Striker though. In addition to the 40 Best in Show wins he’s garnered in other competitions since January 2020, Striker did just fine, winning the Working Group category. Which means he got to stand on a podium, pull a delightfully derpy face, and take home a big shiny cup. (A cup that probably means absolutely nothing to him on account of the fact that it doesn’t have a squeaker in it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WKCDOGS/status/1404248326963404800\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all the online noise, Wasabi’s win wasn’t totally out of left field. In fact, his great-grandad Malachy—who, like Wasabi, was handled by David Fitzpatrick—won Best in Show in 2012. Here he is being kind of smug about it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Wasabi's great-grandaddy Malachy, wishing champagne for his real friends and real pain for his sham friends at the 2012 Westminster Dog Show.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wasabi’s great-grandaddy Malachy, wishing champagne for his real friends and real pain for his sham friends at the 2012 Westminster Dog Show. \u003ccite>(Michael Nagle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spare a thought for all the Pekingese in-between, who just didn’t measure up. Like Pequest Primrose from 2019:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pequest Primrose. What a loser. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pequest Primrose. What a loser. \u003ccite>(Sarah Stier/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Cooper, this nose-licking plebian from 2014:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cooper, waiting to compete in the 138th annual Westminster Dog Show in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-468409383-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooper, waiting to compete in the 138th annual Westminster Dog Show in 2014. \u003ccite>(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don’t even get me started on this egomaniac…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"A nameless Pekingese in the benching area at the 2017 Westminster competition.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-768x544.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-1536x1088.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-2048x1451.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-635076732-1920x1360.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nameless Pekingese in the benching area at the 2017 Westminster competition. \u003ccite>(TIMOTHY A. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Nobody should be all that worried about Striker though. In addition to the 40 Best in Show wins he’s garnered in other competitions since January 2020, Striker did just fine, winning the Working Group category. Which means he got to stand on a podium, pull a delightfully derpy face, and take home a big shiny cup. (A cup that probably means absolutely nothing to him on account of the fact that it doesn’t have a squeaker in it.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Despite all the online noise, Wasabi’s win wasn’t totally out of left field. In fact, his great-grandad Malachy—who, like Wasabi, was handled by David Fitzpatrick—won Best in Show in 2012. Here he is being kind of smug about it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Wasabi's great-grandaddy Malachy, wishing champagne for his real friends and real pain for his sham friends at the 2012 Westminster Dog Show.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-138980647-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wasabi’s great-grandaddy Malachy, wishing champagne for his real friends and real pain for his sham friends at the 2012 Westminster Dog Show. \u003ccite>(Michael Nagle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spare a thought for all the Pekingese in-between, who just didn’t measure up. Like Pequest Primrose from 2019:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/GettyImages-1129031952-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pequest Primrose. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The report pointed to several examples, including the film \u003cem>Hotel Mumbai\u003c/em>, which featured Muslims as terrorists. Movies such as \u003cem>Aladdin\u003c/em> depicted Muslim characters only in the past. Other films portrayed Muslims as outsiders or subservient to white characters. In 2017’s \u003cem>Wonder Woman\u003c/em>, the character Sameer had to play up a stereotype. He later complains about his limited opportunities. “Not everyone gets to be what they want to be all the time,” he says to the superhero. “Me? I am an actor. I love acting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed and the Inclusion Initiative also worked on the study with The Pillars Fund, a foundation for Muslims in the U.S. The group’s cofounder and president, Kashif Shaikh says that while the Muslim community is racially and ethnically diverse, it’s rarely shown that way in movies. He said Hollywood has created and reinforced dangerous portrayals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I recoiled when that MI5 agent said ‘did you become an actor to further the Muslim struggle?,'” he recalls, saying he’d much rather be acting than be a poster boy for this issue. But he says he realized later he had to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe I did become an actor to be seen and portrayed with empathy and dignity, to be seen as fully human as much as any other character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes a “blueprint” for Muslim inclusion: solutions for film studios, film schools, and philanthropies. The Pillars Fund is awarding a new fellowship for Muslim artists. Ahmed is also teaming with Mahershala Ali, Ramy Youssef, Sana Amanat, Karim Amer, Rosa Attab, Nida Manzoor and Jehane Noujaim. They’re challenging film companies to secure deals with Muslim creators and to “sunset” the old tropes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited for radio by Rose Friedman, and adapted for the web by Rose Friedman and Mandalit del Barco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Just+10%25+Of+Popular+Movies+Had+A+Muslim+Character.+Riz+Ahmed+Wants+To+Change+That&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Asha Gond first started skateboarding, neighbors in her village of Janwar in central India were aghast. They urged the teenager’s parents to keep her busy with housework or get her married. When she walked through the village, skateboard in hand, they would sneer at her and make disparaging comments. Skateboarding is for boys, Gond, now 21, recalls the villagers saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding isn’t common in Indian cities, let alone remote rural areas like where Gond lives. The skatepark in her village was built by a German social activist. It ignited in her a life-altering passion for skateboarding—a passion Gond has pursued despite the rigid patriarchal norms in her village and one that has taken her to championships overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an incredible story of how one skatepark can change a girl’s—and really an entire community’s—life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also happens to be the plot of a new Netflix movie called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fn99wmFCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a> releasing June 11. The movie chronicles the journey of a rural Indian teenage girl who discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding after a Westerner builds a skatepark in her village but faces obstacles when she tries to chase her dream of competing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers say it’s a fictionalized account of stories of skateboarding girls in India. But Gond says it’s her story and that the filmmakers never got her permission—even though they met her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that they’ve shown in the trailer have actually happened to me,” she told NPR in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fn99wmFCQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why A Rural Village Got A Skatepark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janwar is a tiny village of about 1,200 located at the edge of a tiger reserve in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Tribal communities called Adivasis make up about \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2309_PART_B_DCHB_PANNA.pdf__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-4EhXZs%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a> of its population. India’s ancient caste system relegates Adivasis to the bottom of the social hierarchy and they typically live segregated from the rest of the community. When Gond was growing up, Adivasi children like her weren’t allowed to mix or play with their higher caste peers. Girls tended to marry early and the literacy rate was extremely low—especially among women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the skatepark, built by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ulrikereinhard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulrike Reinhard\u003c/a>, a German business consultant and activist. Reinhard has been mostly living in India since 2012 and much of her work focuses on empowering youth in rural areas. She had been toying with the idea of building a school in rural India. But inspired by \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateistan.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U0HWm-GM%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skateistan\u003c/a>, an international nonprofit organization that promotes education and gender equality through skateboarding, Reinhard decided to build a skatepark in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an experiment,” Reinhard says. “I thought, can a skatepark trigger change in such a stiff and old-traditioned community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To raise money for the project, Reinhard reached out to artists across the world to convert skateboards into artboards which she then auctioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11733418']When she had the funding, she encouraged skating enthusiasts from around the world to come to Janwar to help build the park. About a dozen came and constructed the skatepark with assistance from laborers in the village. The skatepark opened in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end result was something most of the people in the village had never seen—or even heard of. Gond said her initial reaction was that it “looked very weird.” Some people thought it was a swimming pool, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids came around quickly and thought the skatepark was cool, says Reinhard. But some adults were skeptical of Reinhard’s intentions and started spreading rumors that she was involved in human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond’s mother was scared for her. “People would say [Reinhard] is going to sell your daughter and you won’t be able to see her again ever,” says Kamala Gond, who has since come around to support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The German nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.skate-aid.org/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skate-aid\u003c/a> provided the first batch of 20 skateboards. Reinhard doesn’t know how to skateboard so she showed the kids YouTube videos on a tablet to get them started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, it was difficult to maintain balance, Gond says.”The skateboard would go ahead when I stepped on it. I thought I would fall over and smash my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once she got the hang of it, it was all Gond could think of. “I would lie in bed at night and think about how to maneuver the skateboard to do a particular trick,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Girls Get Priority. And Leave Your Caste At the Door\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skatepark is free and open to all the children in the village, irrespective of caste. Encouraging Adivasi children and Yadav kids (a higher caste) to skate together is blurring caste divisions in the community, Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While members of higher castes don’t get special treatment, girls do. One of the skatepark’s rules is “Girls first”—meaning if there are no skateboards free, a girl can ask a skateboarding boy to give his skateboard to her and he has to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_85006']“The girls’ destiny is sealed the day they are born,” says Reinhard, adding that they are typically put to work at a young age and married off early. “So this was a way to tackle the gender [inequality] issue without naming it explicitly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was happy to see girls skateboarding, much less Adivasi girls like Gond. Villagers would gossip that Gond would be better off learning to cook instead of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They used to say to my parents, ‘What is she going to do after she goes to her husband’s home?'” says Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mornings, Gond recalls, she arrived at the skatepark to threatening messages written on the concrete. “They said they would burn me if I did skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off. \u003ccite>(Vicky Roy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Gond continued to skate and quickly became a rising star in Janwar. Over the years, she’s traveled across India to participate in skateboarding contests. In 2018, she represented India in the World Skateboarding Championship in Nanjing, China. She came in nearly last, but she was the only Indian in the women’s games, competing against many who came from countries with long traditions of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond is also co-founder and director of the nonprofit organization Barefoot Skateboarders, which focuses on the education and development of the children in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother says she’s proud of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel wonderful, I had never imagined that my daughter could do this or achieve what she has achieved,” says Kamala Gond, who says she regrets that she never had the opportunity to go to school and was married when she was a young teen. “What I couldn’t do, my daughter is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘No School. No Skateboarding’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second rule at the skatepark is, “No school. No skateboarding.” When the kids skip school or are kept home by their parents, they aren’t allowed to skateboard. And to make school a better experience, Reinhard partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/prakriti.edu.in/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-jK3Wug%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prakriti School\u003c/a>, an organization that focuses on innovative learning, to organize workshops for teachers in Janwar to improve their teaching skills. As a result, school attendance has gone up considerably, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891248']“We really have created an eagerness to learn,” Reinhard says, adding that they’ve built a second skatepark and a community center that Gond manages where kids can take part in a variety of activities, including painting and karate. “We have a computer lab and the kids are sitting in front of computer screens learning Hindi poems or math.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard says skateboarding is the oil that keeps the whole machine running. It’s a model that’s been successful in many countries. The nonprofit Skateistan now runs programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Skate After School, an \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateafterschool.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U8BlZH3T%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona-based nonprofit\u003c/a>, teaches skateboarding to nurture children from underserved communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does it work? Sports as a means of social change is powerful, says \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/malala.org/champions/jyotsna-jha__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-UzBEPwlp%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jyotsna Jha\u003c/a>, director of the Indian think tank Center for Budget and Policy Studies. “Especially something like skating, which is novel and thrilling, can really create a sense of achievement among children that they had perhaps never experienced otherwise,” she said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports has always been a gendered act, she says. “But when a sport is introduced for girls that is not traditionally associated with girls, it helps in breaking many stereotypes and also generating new ways of thinking,” Jha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village. \u003ccite>(Aslam Saiyad/Barefoot Skateboarders Organization)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Inspiring Movie And A Controversy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact that skateboarding is creating in different communities is what director Manjari Makijany says inspired her movie \u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>. But after watching the trailer, some people on social media familiar with Reinhard’s work and Gond’s story assumed the movie was about Gond and the skatepark in Janwar. But Gond says the filmmakers never got permission to tell her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you ask me that you are going to tell my story?” Gond \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.facebook.com/NetflixFamily/posts/1182671495505173?comment_id=163450362388313__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U2jrrCCu%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> in a comment to a Netflix post sharing the trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to NPR, Makijany denied that the movie was about Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em> is not a biopic based on anyone’s life story nor is it a documentary,” Makijany says. “It is not [Gond or Reinhard’s] story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the movie, as in Janwar, the rule is “No school, No skateboarding” and it’s a Westerner—like Reinhard—who introduces the village to skateboarding and builds a skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond says the filmmakers met with her in Janwar and spoke to her about how skateboarding had changed her life and transformed her village. The director says Gond was just one of many girls they met during the making of the movie. The movie was also not shot in Janwar but in a village in Rajasthan state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard had a contract to be a research consultant on the movie but says she quit early because of differences over the storytelling approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned out to be this kitschy, cheesy kind of thing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard also says from an ethical point of view, the filmmakers should have made a contract with Gond and the other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13898211']Reinhard’s name and the Janwar skatepark appear in the end credits of the movie, along with the names of other skateboarders in India and around the world. The director says Gond and the other Janwar children were given a chance to be a part of the movie’s climax scene, but they declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said if this is our story we want to be seen and tell our story. We don’t want to be only in the background of the last scene,” Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her misgivings, Reinhard says overall, the movie will benefit Janwar and raise awareness about their work and about skateboarding. A new \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.desertdolphinskatepark.com/about__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-UysxWPbE%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skatepark\u003c/a> was built in Khempur village where the movie was shot and is now being used by the community there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Gond, she says she is curious to see the full movie. All she has to do now is get a Netflix account, a luxury most people in her village do not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Skateboarding+Gives+Freedom+To+Rural+Indian+Teen+In+Netflix+Film+%E2%80%94+And+In+Real+Life&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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But Gond says the filmmakers never got permission to tell her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you ask me that you are going to tell my story?” Gond \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.facebook.com/NetflixFamily/posts/1182671495505173?comment_id=163450362388313__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U2jrrCCu%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> in a comment to a Netflix post sharing the trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to NPR, Makijany denied that the movie was about Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em> is not a biopic based on anyone’s life story nor is it a documentary,” Makijany says. “It is not [Gond or Reinhard’s] story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the movie, as in Janwar, the rule is “No school, No skateboarding” and it’s a Westerner—like Reinhard—who introduces the village to skateboarding and builds a skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond says the filmmakers met with her in Janwar and spoke to her about how skateboarding had changed her life and transformed her village. 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"content": "\u003cp>In nearly twenty years hosting the different dating series in \u003cem>The Bachelor \u003c/em>franchise, host Chris Harrison has handled everything from confronting rule-breaking contestants to chasing down \u003cem>Bachelor\u003c/em> star \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colton Underwood\u003c/a> after he hopped a fence and tried to quit the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today it is Harrison who is leaving. ABC and producers of \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and its spin offs, \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bachelor in Paradise,\u003c/em> have confirmed that the host is gone for good after fumbling a race-related controversy from the mothership program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC Entertainment and Warner Horizon, the show’s distributor and producer, acknowledged Harrison’s departure today in a terse joint statement: “Chris Harrison is stepping aside as host of \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> franchise. We are thankful for his many contributions over the past 20 years and wish him all the best on his new journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13893077']Harrison, 49, issued a more optimistic statement on his Instagram page, noting “I’ve had a truly incredible run as host of \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> franchise and now I’m excited to start a new chapter. I’m so grateful to Bachelor Nation for all of the memories we’ve made together. While my two-decade journey is wrapping up, the friendships I’ve made will last a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from ABC, Warner Horizon and Harrison did not otherwise respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website Deadline \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2021/06/chris-harrison-leaving-the-bachelor-franchise-controversy-1234771200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported Harrison’s ouster\u003c/a>, saying it came after intense negotiations culminating in a “midrange, eight-figure payoff” which would ensure the former host said little about the issue after the news was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison has hosted \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and its spinoff shows since the series debuted in 2002. But he was sidelined in February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmY1gSAuRk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after an interview\u003c/a> where he downplayed the significance of news that contestant Rachael Kirkconnell had once attended a party themed around the antebellum South, a period when slavery still existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> was featuring its first Black star, Matt James. As the news about Kirkconnell spread, fans questioned whether the series had vetted its white contestants well enough to exclude contestants with racist issues in their past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894064']But Harrison derisively dubbed Kirkconnell’s critics the “woke police,” until a widespread backlash led him to issue an apology and step away from his hosting duties. “What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism and for that I am so deeply sorry,” he said in one of two apologies \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLIjt2IgzOo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His initial comments were seen as emblematic of the show’s ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977841254/the-bachelors-cluelessness-about-race-comes-to-a-head-in-season-finale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cluelessness about diversity\u003c/a> issues, as it struggled to feature non-white stars and respect their perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the controversy over Kirkconnell—who James had picked as the season’s winner during episodes pre-taped last year—eventually overshadowed the season finale in March. James wound up rejecting Kirkconnell during the program’s \u003cem>After the Rose\u003c/em> special, which was hosted by former NFL player and author Emmanuel Acho. (he has since told \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine he is once again “\u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/matt-james-says-hes-pursuing-a-relationship-with-rachael-kirkconnell-focusing-on-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pursuing a relationship\u003c/a>” with her.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s departure was initially characterized as a temporary stepping aside. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Harrison derisively dubbed Kirkconnell’s critics the “woke police,” until a widespread backlash led him to issue an apology and step away from his hosting duties. “What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism and for that I am so deeply sorry,” he said in one of two apologies \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLIjt2IgzOo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His initial comments were seen as emblematic of the show’s ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977841254/the-bachelors-cluelessness-about-race-comes-to-a-head-in-season-finale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cluelessness about diversity\u003c/a> issues, as it struggled to feature non-white stars and respect their perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the controversy over Kirkconnell—who James had picked as the season’s winner during episodes pre-taped last year—eventually overshadowed the season finale in March. James wound up rejecting Kirkconnell during the program’s \u003cem>After the Rose\u003c/em> special, which was hosted by former NFL player and author Emmanuel Acho. (he has since told \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine he is once again “\u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/matt-james-says-hes-pursuing-a-relationship-with-rachael-kirkconnell-focusing-on-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pursuing a relationship\u003c/a>” with her.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s departure was initially characterized as a temporary stepping aside. But news that former \u003cem>Bachelorett\u003c/em>e stars Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe would host the edition of \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> that debuted Monday (and that guest hosts, including comic David Spade, \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/david-spade-guest-host-bachelor-in-paradise-amid-chris-harrison-break-from-franchise-source/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would lead this year’s edition\u003c/a> of \u003cem>Bachelor in Paradise\u003c/em>) led to speculation about his long-term future with the franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27The+Bachelor%27+Host+Chris+Harrison+Exits+Franchise+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When a filmmaker asked medical historian Naomi Rogers to appear in a new documentary, the \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/naomi_rogers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yale professor\u003c/a> didn’t blink. She had done these “talking head” interviews many times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She assumed her comments would end up in a straightforward documentary that addressed some of the most pressing concerns of the pandemic, such as the legacy of racism in medicine and how that plays into current mistrust in some communities of color. The subject of vaccines was also mentioned, but the focus wasn’t clear to Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The director wanted something more polished than a Zoom call, so a well-outfitted camera crew arrived at Rogers’ home in Connecticut in the fall. They showed up wearing masks and gloves. Before the interview, crew members cleaned the room thoroughly. Then they spent about an hour interviewing Rogers. She discussed her research and in particular controversial figures such as Dr. James Marion Sims, who was influential in the field of gynecology but who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/513764158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">performed experimental surgery on enslaved Black women\u003c/a> during the 1800s without anesthesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13884294']“We were talking about issues of racism and experimentation, and they seemed to be handled appropriately,” Rogers recalls. At the time, there were few indications that anything was out of the ordinary—except one. During a short break, she asked who else was being interviewed for the film. The producer’s response struck Rogers as curiously vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘Well, there’s ‘a guy’ in New York, and we talked to ‘somebody in New Jersey, and California,’ ” Rogers told NPR. “I thought it’s so odd that they wouldn’t tell me who these people were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until this March that Rogers would stumble upon the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received an email from a group called Children’s Health Defense—prominent in the anti-vaccine movement—promoting its new film, \u003cem>Medical Racism: The New Apartheid\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she clicked on the link and began watching the 57-minute film, she was shocked to discover \u003cem>this \u003c/em>was the movie she had sat down for back in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was naive, certainly, in assuming that this was actually a documentary, which I would say it is not. I think that it is an advocacy piece for anti-vaxxers,” Rogers says. “I’m still very angry. I feel that I was used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The free, online film is the latest effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the founder of Children’s Health Defense. (He’s the son of the former U.S. Attorney General Robert “Bobby” Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy.) With this film, Kennedy and his allies in the anti-vaccine movement \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/scicheck-rfk-jr-video-pushes-known-vaccine-misrepresentations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resurface and promote disproven claims\u003c/a> about the dangers of vaccines, but it’s aimed squarely at a specific demographic: Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film draws a line from the real and disturbing history of racism and atrocities in the medical field—such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuskegee syphilis study\u003c/a>—to interviews with anti-vaccine activists who warn communities of color to be suspicious of modern-day vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point in \u003cem>Medical Racism\u003c/em>, viewers are warned that “in Black communities something is very sinister” and “the same thing that happened in the 1930s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432080520/fact-check-was-planned-parenthood-started-to-control-the-black-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during the eugenics movement\u003c/a>” is happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is lengthy discussion of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thoroughly disproven link\u003c/a> between \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/48/4/456/284219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">autism and vaccines\u003c/a>. For example, the film references a study from the \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/2/259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003c/a>about the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism rates as evidence that African American children are being particularly harmed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/anti-vaccine-doc-vaxxed-a-882651/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but in reality the study did not conclude that African Americans\u003c/a> are at increased risk of autism because of vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie then displays a chart claiming to use that same CDC data—obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request—to make a connection between vaccinating Black children and autism risk. The findings in the chart closely resemble another study sometimes mentioned by anti-vaccine activists, but the medical journal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183946/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later retracted\u003c/a> the study, because of “undeclared competing interests on the part of the author” and “concerns about the validity of the methods and statistical analysis.” (That study’s author was also a paid independent contractor for Kennedy’s group as of 2020 and sits \u003ca href=\"https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/board-directors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on its board of directors\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film also\u003ca href=\"https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-discovers-african-americans-respond-better-to-rubella-vaccine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> brings up a 2014 study from the Mayo Clinic\u003c/a> that showed Somali Americans and African Americans have a more robust immune response to the rubella vaccine than Caucasians and Hispanic Americans. One of those interviewed in Kennedy’s film then asks, “So if you have that process that could be caused by vaccines, why wouldn’t there be a link between vaccines and developmental delays?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the study’s own author and leading vaccine researcher, Dr. Gregory Poland, says this conjecture is not accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894324']According to a statement provided to NPR by the Mayo Clinic, the study demonstrated “higher protective immune responses in African-American subjects with no evidence of increased vaccine side effects” and that any claim of “‘increased vulnerability’ among African-Americans who receive the rubella vaccine is simply not supported by either this study or the science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Rogers, the Yale professor, only appears for about 14 seconds in the film. Her quotes are accurate. But her remarks are embedded in a wider narrative that she had “enormous problems with”—namely that the anti-vaccine movement is heroically engaged in a new civil rights campaign, one meant to stop experimentation on the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers says the film uses many of the ideas that she holds “passionately, like health disparities, fighting racism in health, working against discrimination, and it’s been twisted for the purposes of this anti-vax movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another credible expert from mainstream medicine also appears in the film: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nmanet.org/page/OliverBrooks-Biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Oliver Brooks\u003c/a>, the immediate past president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nmanet.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Medical Association\u003c/a>. The group is the largest organization representing African American physicians in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks says he agreed to be in the film because he wanted to provide balance, but, after seeing it, he now regrets doing the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The crux of the documentary is generally don’t get vaccinated,” Brooks told NPR in a recent interview. “There \u003cem>is \u003c/em>an understandable concern in the African American community regarding vaccines—however, in the end, my position is you look past those, have an understanding of those and still get vaccinated … That nuance was not felt or presented in the documentary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy’s group released the film in early March, just as the COVID-19 vaccine was becoming widely available to the American public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie begins with a string of ominous news clips about the pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccines and includes short interviews with people of color who talk about COVID-19 being “propaganda” and why they don’t trust the vaccine. Kennedy also appears to offer \u003ca href=\"https://childrenshealthdefense.org/transcripts/medical-racism-the-new-apartheid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a warning to viewers\u003c/a> about vaccines: “Don’t listen to me. Don’t listen to Tony Fauci. Hey, and don’t listen to your doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Kennedy, other producers helped make and market the film, including a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, and a wealthy entrepreneur who recently made headlines when a private school he co-founded in Miami \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/us/miami-centner-academy-coronavirus-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prohibited teachers\u003c/a> who got the COVID-19 vaccine from returning to the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s Health Defense made one of the film’s co-producers, Curtis Cost, available to talk with NPR. He is a longtime anti-vaccine activist, who has previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/103726/the-hivaids-hoax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed\u003c/a> that “viruses do not cause anything, it’s a hoax, it’s a myth … whether you are talking about HIV virus, the flu virus or any other virus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cost says the film does not explicitly tell people to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine, but it “goes all the way to the present experimentations and bad things have been done by the medical establishment in America and in Africa and other parts of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The film basically wants people to recognize this history that leads right into the present, and especially when they’re facing decisions about whether they should take any vaccine, including COVID,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email statement, a spokesperson for Children’s Health Defense denies that the film is misinformation and says it contains “peer reviewed science and historical data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881679']The movie is “a classic example of the anti-vaccine industry with a highly targeted message using sophisticated marketing techniques and building alliances with affiliate organizations,” says Imran Ahmed, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has \u003ca href=\"https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_fddbfb2a0c05461cb4bdce2892f3cad0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extensively researched figures such as Kennedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve seen the opportunity to target a specifically African American audience,” he says, during a particular moment of heightened national attention on racial injustices and health disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Americans have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twice the risk of dying from COVID-19\u003c/a> compared with white Americans. Racial disparities in \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/covid-vaccination-stark-racial-disparities-persist-state-level-cdc-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vaccination uptake persist\u003c/a> across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/26/989962041/why-black-and-latino-people-still-lag-on-covid-vaccines-and-how-to-fix-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">efforts \u003c/a>to improve access to the vaccine, media coverage has also focused heavily on historical reasons for vaccine skepticism—too much, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/03/23/974059870/stop-blaming-tuskegee-critics-say-its-not-an-excuse-for-current-medical-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some\u003c/a> scholars argue, when the focus should be on how Black Americans experience the impact of systemic racism in health care today—and how to fix those problems and improve trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this moment where we’re having some necessary discussions about health equity,” says Victor Agbafe, a medical student at the University of Michigan. “It’s not a good thing to sort of exploit that as a means to undermine trust in the vaccine today, instead of focusing on how we can make the vaccine more accessible for all communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agbafe, who helps lead his school’s Black medical student association, was surprised to get an email from Children’s Health Defense asking him to promote the movie among his peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was released, the film did not seem to gain much traction on major social media platforms such as Twitter, although tracking how often this kind of video is being shared privately can be difficult, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kolinakoltai.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kolina Koltai\u003c/a>, a University of Washington researcher who studies the anti-vaccine movement online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activities during the pandemic involve more than this movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, he \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/rjf-jr-banned-instagram-vaccine-misinfo-d72913572f04ec9b23cec58881bc32d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was banned\u003c/a> from Instagram for posting misinformation on vaccines, but he still has a home on Facebook and Twitter. Ahmed’s organization has labeled Kennedy one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“disinformation dozen”\u003c/a>—a group of people responsible for 65% of the shares of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/webinar-rfk-jr-medical-racism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webinar\u003c/a> about the film, Kennedy said those who agree with the film need to use “the tools of advocacy that Martin Luther King Jr. talked about” and promote it “guerilla-style” against the “darkening cloud of totalitarianism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although more than half of American adults have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, demand is falling fast, and polls \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-may-2021/\">show\u003c/a> almost one-third of adults still either want to “wait and see” or do not want to get the shot. When asked why, many say the vaccine is unsafe, based on false conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891832']\u003cem>“\u003c/em>I see the downstream ripple effects of disinformation every day in practice, every day in the patient’s lives I treat,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/atul-nakhasi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Atul Nakhasi\u003c/a> with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and co-founder of the online campaign \u003ca href=\"https://thisisourshot.info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ThisIsOurShot\u003c/a>, which aims to encourage trust in the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know people have uncertainties, and we need to acknowledge that and have humble, respectful conversations, but for someone to actively subvert that trust is unconscionable,” Nakhasi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.counterhate.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Countering Digital Hate\u003c/a>, the ideal strategy for stopping the spread of online misinformation is to cut it off at the source: meaning “deplatform” the most notorious spreaders of that information so they can’t gain a following on social media in the first place. 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"content": "\u003cp>When I was 12, a school friend’s mother introduced our little group of friends to the wrist test. Your wrist circumference, she explained, was the true demonstration of your bone structure, and an indication of the size you actually could be if you watched your weight enough. She went around our circle of tweens and marveled at the daintiness of my friends’ wrists. Then she reached mine, audibly gasped, and uttered the phrase, “Oh, so you really \u003cem>are\u003c/em> big-boned.” I couldn’t tell if I was being let off the hook or thrown on the trash pile. Maybe a little of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never forgot about the wrist test. (In part, because every time I attempt to buy a bracelet, I’m reminded that my bones are so gasp-worthy, no one’s willing to make accessories large enough to fit them.) But I’d also never really heard anyone else talk about it. That was until March 2019, when the very first episode of \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> came out on Hulu. I couldn’t quite believe it when I saw it, but within two minutes of the show starting, Aidy Bryant’s character, Annie Easton, was being subjected to a wrist test. (Something, she later \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn1kab6Jy2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the \u003cem>Today\u003c/em> \u003cem>Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, had happened to her in real life.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You actually have a really small frame,” a complete stranger told Annie in a coffee shop. “There is a small person inside of you, dying to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh,” Annie quipped back. “Well I hope that small person’s OK in there…” Later in the episode she gets more succinct, offering a simple “fuck you” to the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the exact moment that I fell in love with Annie Easton. I fell in love with her because I’d never seen anyone quite like her on TV before. (The fat girl as the central character, not the comic relief, shouldn’t be a revolutionary concept, but here we are.) I fell in love with her because she was doing her damn best while batting away near-constant fatphobic aggressions, both micro and major. And I fell in love with her because at the end of that very first episode of \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, she declared: “I’ve been letting people dismiss me, or say shit to me about my body my entire life. And at this point, I just feel like, fuck them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2i0fuSMRI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>’s first season was extremely adept at throwing a middle finger up at fat-shaming in all its forms. Fat-shaming by family members, back-handed friends, bosses, medical professionals and well-meaning strangers. It very shrewdly identified all forms of fat hostility, then very gently asked the audience to both recognize it, and stop participating in it. And watching Annie Easton refusing to participate in her own subjugation anymore was an absolute thrill to watch. Plus, \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> was funny. Really, really funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13874075']The reason \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> was so good at being honest, empowering and, yes, hilarious was because it was created, developed and written by women who didn’t just know the Annie Eastons of the world, they \u003cem>were\u003c/em> them. Bryant (memorably hailed as \u003cem>Saturday Night Live’\u003c/em>s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/snl-adds-first-ever-fat-woman-to-new-cast-aidy-bryant-feminist-magazine-television\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first ever fat woman\u003c/a>” by Bitch Media) developed and co-wrote the first season with \u003ca href=\"https://www.lindywest.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lindy West\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1494121/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandra Rushfield\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> took its name from West’s 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.lindywest.net/shrill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book of essays\u003c/a>. (Almost all of the components for the first season are visible in a single essay from the collection titled, “You’re So Brave for Wearing Clothes and Not Hating Yourself!”) Rushfield had previously written for—and executive produced—other funny, brilliant series like \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Love\u003c/em>. The Bryant/West/Rushfield core trio went on to bring in an incredibly diverse team of writers to pen the episodes that they didn’t. And the show was better for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes around fat-shaming were also present in seasons two and three—they had to be for the sake of realism—but the show became less concerned about Annie’s size, and more concerned about her development as an empowered, freshly assertive person. Season three, which came out May 7, was particularly adept at exploring the pitfalls of this kind of newly acquired self-confidence, as Annie made cringeworthy mistakes in both her career and her love life. Along the way, we also got very invested in the life of her queer, more gregarious best friend, Fran (played warmly and hilariously by Lolly Adefope).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, right in the middle of Annie and Fran’s still blossoming, still messy journeys, it all came to a screeching halt. \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> ended for good last month, after 22 too-short episodes. I’ve been trying to make peace with that since I binged the new season the day it came out. The knowledge that there will never be another episode has been actively bothering me ever since. And the fact that the cast and writers didn’t find out it would be the last season until they were already halfway through making it has been nagging at me even more. Perhaps if they’d had a little more notice, \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> wouldn’t feel quite so unfinished right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDjQf8KJyc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the promo jaunt for \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>‘s third and final season, Bryant and West did their level best to put a positive spin on the end of the show. \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/05/10460703/shrill-final-season-ending-explained-aidy-bryant-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryant told \u003cem>Refinery 29\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “Something I really like about the end for both Fran and Annie is that they don’t end with these perfect scenarios. They end with scenarios that they’re going to have to work through and grow in order to get through … I think it’s a nice way to show that she’s got more work to do forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a36339150/aidy-bryant-lindy-west-shrill-season-3-series-finale-interview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Esquire\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Lindy West said, “I also think that not tying everything up with a big bow lets characters keep living in a way that a more formal finale doesn’t. You’re just stepping back out of their lives. In my brain, their lives go on, and all of these characters are still out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_96893']Maybe Bryant and West are right. Maybe an unfinished story is better than a neat one. Maybe the lack of happy ending is more in keeping with the overall tone of the show. But I can’t stop thinking about something West wrote in the book version of \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>. Right after she pointed out that “looking at pictures of fat people makes you like fat people more,” West gave us an “eternal reminder: representation matters.” And what we are still lacking on television in 2021 are shows in which cool fat women just live their lives with grace and self-love and—godammit—\u003cem>fun\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> was able to give us that for three seasons is something to treasure, alright. But it’s also not enough—especially when Annie Easton taught us so righteously to always, \u003cem>always\u003c/em> ask for more.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Have you ever received a warning or intimation of approaching good or ill while wrapt in dreamy slumber? Have you ever been the victim of baffling situations, mysterious penalties, grotesque associations, or weird inconsistencies, because all the while you were enchanted in the stable fetters of sleep?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how, on Nov. 16, 1925, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OakTribNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a> launched the most surreal competition in its history: The Tribune-American Theater Dream Contest. Readers were asked to send in detailed descriptions of strange dreams they’d had, for the chance to win $25 and a movie role. “The winning dream,” the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> explained, “will be made with local backgrounds and with the dreamers themselves re-enacting their slumber visions.” The film would then be shown at the American Theatre—then located on San Pablo Avenue near the corner of 17th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-800x289.png\" alt=\"The dream contest form, as seen in 'The Oakland Tribune' throughout November and December 1925.\" width=\"800\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-800x289.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-1020x369.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-160x58.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-768x278.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM.png 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dream contest form, as seen in ‘The Oakland Tribune’ throughout November and December 1925. \u003ccite>(The Oakland Tribune)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within days, the newspaper was bombarded with entries from all over the Bay Area. “The chance to ‘see yourself in the movies’ has appealed to many aspirants who have long desired a screen test of themselves,” the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> reported, “and numerous replies have been received from kiddies ambitious to make their screen debut.” In addition to entries from Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley, one story proudly stated, the paper also received dream summaries from “Stege, Avon, Glen Ellen, Hayward, Niles, Pinole, Watsonville and San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13884403']Readers told of dreams in which they died, became British royalty, received “nocturnal warnings,” and rode whales to France. The Nov. 19 \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> listed highlights from the “Dream Editor’s mail.” These included tales about “the Prince of Wales in a 1913 aeroplane, golden winged birds in fairy castles, a pedestrian jaunt across San Francisco Bay, a wicked hermit having a bodyguard of fierce lions, a midnight sky full of waving American flags,” and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lucky entries were even given the dream analysis treatment in the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>—a practice that had grown increasingly fashionable since Sigmund Freud published \u003cem>The Interpretation of Dreams\u003c/em> in 1900. (“To see one’s self beheaded is a sign that loyal friends are near you,” a \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> interpreter advised one reader.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Nov. 23, the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> finally announced its winner: a Mrs. L. L. Nicholson of 3812 San Juan St., Oakland, who dreamed her baby stole the family car and got a speeding ticket. Nicholson, her husband, and their baby boy, Bobby, made a special appearance in the newspaper, photographed while receiving their $25 check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-800x717.png\" alt=\"The Nicholson family, as seen in the 'Oakland Tribune' on Nov. 28, 1925.\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-800x717.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-1020x914.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-160x143.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-768x688.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM.png 1216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nicholson family, as seen in the ‘Oakland Tribune’ on Nov. 28, 1925. \u003ccite>(The Oakland Tribune)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Five days before they appeared, the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> had excitedly announced, “OAKLAND BOY, 11 MONTHS, TO STAR IN DREAM MOVIE.” The resulting seven-and-a-half-minute silent film starts at the family’s home in Oakland, travels to the ferry building in San Francisco, then back to the East Bay in a row boat. 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