ISSUE 2
MARRIAGE IN VISIBILITY
Is Your Marriage Invisible? Same Sex Marriage and the 2010 Census
BY HEATHER TIRADO GILLIGAN
To be counted on the census entails social and political visibility. To be measured is to be politically noticed, and to be noticed is to have a claim on government resources. Political visibility follows on the heels of statistical visibility. Several states already guarantee same-sex marriage, but as of now the federal government will not recognize them. Heather Triado Gilligan details LGBT activists’ struggle to be visible. The good news is the census is responsive to political pressure.
In Conducive Chronicle Colorlines Counting Immigrants
Marriage-Promotion Right Claim, Wrong Reasons
BY BELLA DEPAULO
Bella DePaulo continues the marriage visibility theme by offering a critical discussion of federally funded marriage promotion and singlism. The idea of married people as entitled to more government benefits infiltrates our contemporary political terrain, often ignored and unchallenged. Depaulo wants to remove that invisibility cloak, to create a loud, collective, single voice.
Douglas Kmeic, a Catholic Scholar’s Take on Marriage Equality
Climate Crisis: Alaskan Village Shishmaref Sinking Into the Sea
BY CHRISTINE SHEARER
Conducive‘s Christine Shearer interviews Brice Eningowuk, a member of Shishmaref’s Erosion and Relocation Committee. Global warming will eventually cause his village to disappear. Read about the plan for his people’s survival.
Video blog Alaska and Global Change
BY BUDD L HALL
Professor Hall launches our literary department by introducing the rich tradition between activism and poetry Video blog The first of Conducive’s Watch During Your Lunch Hour Series, Piri Thomas Every Child is Born a Poet
DEPARTMENTS
Fruit falls down off of trees and rots. Ubiquitous water bottles find permanent homes in landfills. Communities create innovative ways to deal with what we throw away. We can organize community projects to donate the fruit. We can create wearable works of art from the water bottles.
BRIEF MOMENTS/BIG BENEFITS
Video an Afternoon of Fruit Harvesting
The Portland Free Tree Project’s innovative afternoon to keep neighborhoods clean and provide fresh organic food for the people who need it.
SPACE STYLE DIALOUGES
Special Report Ecofashion
Eco-Trend Watch All Dressed Up
BY L.A. CORRALEZ
This season’s ecofashion report dresses
Organic Meets Geometric With naturevsfuture
Hemp, soy, bamboo, seaweed, wood pulp, corn, soda bottles and industry waste create an aesthetic with cutting edge and deconstructive elegance. Their seasonless slow fashion pieces echo the populist mantra less is more
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