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  Flags and Punishment: State-Sponsored Homophobia

  December 2, 2013 - 

  More than a third of the world’s countries prohibit same-sex relations, with punishments ranging from monetary fines to lifetime imprisonment with hard labor, forced psychiatric treatment, whippings and even death by public stoning.  More

  By Jim Hodges, Encke King and Carlos Marques da Cruz

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  Dealing with Authority When You Have No Authority: A Brush with Stop-and-Frisk

  November 18, 2013 - 

  Composer and sound artist Matana Roberts shares her brush with the New York police tactic known as “stop-and-frisk,” which civil rights advocates have denounced as a form of racial profiling.  More

  By Laura Hanna

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  Tijuana’s “El Panda”: Self-Fictions of a Human Smuggler

  November 18, 2013 - 

  Adriana Trujillo’s documentary showcases an actor, producer and human smuggler, Félix Rosales (aka “El Panda”), who traffics immigrants across the Mexico–United States border and depicts his subversive activities in B movies that draw from Hollywood clichés.  More

  By Adriana Trujillo

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  Trading with the Enemy: Pigeons Break the Cuba Blockade

  November 4, 2013 - 

  Artist Duke Riley attempts to subvert a powerful trade embargo, enforced by advanced military and surveillance technologies, with a time-tested if less sophisticated tool: the Rock Dove.  More

  By Duke Riley

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  Kuang Kuang: “Where Is My Dream?”

  October 7, 2013 - 

  Pi San’s startlingly violent and uproariously funny video animation depicts the Chinese educational system he passed through during the 1980s, a time when students were only permitted to pursue state-sanctioned dreams.  More

  By Pi San