FAIR News: FAIR Film Festival
FAIR News: FAIR Film Festival
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FAIR Film Festival
The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism is hosting a film festival!
Starting on June 5th, FAIR will host online screenings of the feature films I Am A Victor, What Killed Michael Brown?, Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor, Mighty Ira, and All of Us.
On June 12th, in New York City, FAIR will host an in-person screening of I Am A Victor and other assorted short films. From June 12th to June 16th, FAIR will host a Q&A with the filmmakers and special guests including author Shelby Steele, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Greg Lukianoff, and FAIR Advisory Board Members Daryl Davis, Wilfred Reilly, Angel Eduardo, and Alan Charles Kors.
Sign up to attend for FREE!
Opposing divisive curriculum in Evanston Elementary School
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Last week, FAIR's legal team sent a letter to the superintendent of Evanston School District 65 in Evanston, Illinois. In the letter, FAIR raised concerns about the district's new elementary school curriculum surrounding racial categorization and gender. One lesson teaches students that people are in “danger” because of “whiteness,” and suggests that racism is exclusively associated with “whiteness.” Another lesson indicates that the district’s elementary school students will be taught about gender transition and preferred pronouns, including neo-pronouns such as “ze” and “tree.”
As an advocate for pro-human antiracism, FAIR respects educators who undertake efforts to create positive change and greater fairness. However, instruction that attempts to remedy prejudice should not itself further prejudice or disregard the civil rights and individuality of others. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits federally-funded entities from stereotyping students or creating a hostile environment based on their skin color.
Join FAIR Working Groups!
The Educators Alliance is growing! We are actively working to spread the pro-human message throughout schools and classrooms across our country through the expansion of the Educators Alliance with a FAIR Administrators Alliance, a FAIR Libraries Working Group, and a FAIR Independent School Strategy Working Group.
If you’re a K-12 school administrator and would like to join our Administrators Alliance, please email educators@fairforall.org.
If you work in a library, are concerned with recent trends in your field, and would like to join our FAIR Libraries Working Group to share resources and create a strategy to address the pressing issues facing libraries and their staff, please email libraries@fairforall.org for more information.
If you’re the parent of an independent school student and would like to join our Independent School Strategy Working Group to address the unique needs of parents and students in K-12 independent schools, please email educators@fairforall.org.
Stay tuned to the FAIR Educator’s Alliance webpage for more updates!
Have Something to Say? Write for Us
We want FAIR Substack to be the go-to publication for diverse perspectives on culture and civil rights. Whether you’re a seasoned author or an amateur writer with a story that can contribute to our mission of promoting fairness, understanding, and humanity, we would love to receive your stories, opinions, investigations, reviews, interviews, and more!
Please submit your piece to submissions@fairforall.org
Submission guidelines:
Complete articles only (i.e., no “works in progress”).
No previously published submissions.
We have no hard word count limits, but prefer submissions between 1,000 and 2,500 words.
In the email, please include a short personal introduction and brief (one paragraph) summary of the article.
We hope to hear from you!
FAIR Perspectives
This week on FAIR Perspectives, hosts Angel Eduardo and Melissa Chen interview cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and public intellectual Steven Pinker. Pinker is the author of several bestselling books, including The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Enlightenment Now, and most recently Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.
In this episode, Steven talks about his books and public response to them, the euphemism treadmill and whether we can ever escape it, the misunderstandings of terms like optimism and idealism, the tensions between human nature and the potential for progress, social media and the ways we can improve it, and how we can all be more rational.
Tune in on YouTube or wherever you listen to your podcasts!
FAIR News Podcast
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How Activism Impacts Transgender Healthcare
Last week, FAIR in Medicine hosted a webinar where panelists discussed the ways in which certain types of activism have made it more difficult to have honest conversations about trans healthcare, the constructive role that activism can play in drawing attention to important issues, and how we can all advocate for a pro-human approach to transgender healthcare.
FAIR Pro-Human Classroom Teacher Training
K-12 Educators, please join us on Wednesday, June 22nd, from 4-6 p.m. EST for a free, online workshop focused on how to create a culture of humanity, fairness, and understanding in the classroom. You'll learn to assess and improve classroom climate with the pro-human teaching rubric, support student viewpoint diversity, and help students build connections and understanding across cultures. The workshop will include methods practice and scenario planning with FAIR’s classroom support tools.
This event is being capped at 20 participants. Register now to secure your spot!
FAIR Pro-human and Perspectives Tour
On June 11th in Denver, please join FAIR National, FAIR Colorado and local chapters to celebrate the kick-off of the FAIR Pro-Human and Perspectives Tour and to discuss the FAIR principles in the context of current issues of the day. This event will be an opportunity to connect with FAIR Board of Advisors members, Daryl Davis and Erec Smith, FAIR’s founder and president Bion Bartning, plus FAIR-minded friends from around the state. Register here.
FAIR Twin Cities Quarterly Meeting
To register for the FAIR Twin Cities Quarterly member meeting, click here.
FAIR Diversity Training
Meet FAIR Diversity: What It Means to Be Pro-Human
For all FAIR Members and volunteers. These events are typically held on the last Monday of each month.
Registration is now open for the following events:
May 30th, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. ET
June 27th, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. ET
FAIR Chapter Events
Chapter Leader Meetings
May 26th:
Series 3: Pro-Humanizing Language
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Chapter Events
May 26th:
Toronto Chapter Meeting
7:30 p.m. PT
June 7th:
Ontario 101 Tuesday Series
7:30PM EST
June 8th:
Toronto Open House
7:30PM EST
June 9th:
Ottawa (613) Open House
8PM EST
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81977146066?pwd=ZkZHMFFBUTVWdXh2cFYzRDBBTldvUT09
FAIR Educator Alliance ‘Happy Hour’
Teachers often feel isolated and alone in their schools, but FAIR is here for you! The FAIR Educators Alliance brings together educators from all levels to share experiences and concerns and work on developing resources that can support teachers, community members, and FAIR chapters.
We have an informal “happy hour” every Thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. ET, and hold more formal monthly meetings that will address issues based on your interests and needs.
We welcome all teachers and hope you will get connected.
For more information, contact educators@fairforall.org or, for Canadian educators, contact educators-canada@fairforall.org.
Join the FAIR Community
Become a FAIR volunteer or to join a FAIR chapter:
Join a Welcome to FAIR Zoom information session to learn more about our mission, or watch a previously recorded session in the Members section of www.fairforall.org.
Sign the FAIR Pledge for a common culture of fairness, understanding and humanity.
Join the FAIR community to connect and share information with other members.
Share your reviews and incident reports on our FAIR Transparency website.
Yes!!! So glad you all are doing this!! Much needed🎯🎯🎯