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Disability Justice: Alice Sheppard & Jess Thom
Season 3
Episode 309
Laura Flanders interviews two performance artists whose work illustrates how difference and neurodiversity make art and society richer and more interesting. Alice Sheppard is a wheelchair dancer and esteemed choreographer, and Jess Thom is a performer and comedian with Tourettes. In this episode, they question the role of art in society and our attitudes towards disability and what is normal.
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Laura works with the Prison Creative Arts Project to support formerly incarcerated artists.
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Laura Flanders sits down with the directors of CYCLE, a documentary on the killing of Ty'rese West.
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Laura connects with award-winning actress and writer Liza Jessie Peterson.
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Laura meets North Carolina's residents and leaders to consider the future of democracy in America.
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Learn about the disparity of the discriminatory and unjust for-profit cash bail system.
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Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movement for abolition and feminism.
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The Solutions We Need! The very best of Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Solutions We Need! The very best of Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Solutions We Need! The very best of Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Solutions We Need! The very best of Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Solutions We Need! The very best of Laura Flanders & Friends