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monologues
Temple Beth Am’s ‘Hanukkah Monologues’ Set the Mood for the Festival of Lights
The sex and me monologues
How do you discuss virginity with a class of American university students without the conversation sounding irrelevant to their lives or, worse, an exercise in exoticizing another culture? Women, sex and culture can be a Bermuda Triangle that threatens to demolish discussion through either defensiveness — when students feel compelled to defend a cultural practice — or superiority — when students feel compelled to parade their culture as being above whatever cultural challenges are being discussed. The personal is not only political, but it demolishes that Bermuda Triangle. I got a powerful reminder about that in September when I taught a course on gender and new media in the Middle East, in Oklahoma. We had watched the Lebanese film “Caramel,” directed by and starring Nadine Labaki, as the owner of a Beirut hair salon whose friends and co-workers portray a cross-section of Lebanese female experience.
Monologuist Pulls Plug on Ben Franklin
Josh Kornbluth grew up in a secular, communist household in New York City. He says that he\’s not trying to be flippant when he notes that his parents had an almost \”Talmudic reverence for Marxism.\”