Elaine is Almost: Lesson Plan Resources

Resources

In this collection:

Overview

A Note On Technology and Accessibility

A Note From Curriculum Creator, Jade Sanchez-Ventura

A Note To Teachers

Film Clips

Activities and Extensions

Resources

Standards

Credits and Acknowledgements

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Otherly Documentary Series
https://mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/otherly/
Premiering on Instagram Stories, Otherly is a series of seven short documentaries about finding one’s place in the 21st century. Using universal themes like love, inclusion, and loss as entry points, seven female, non-binary, and genderqueer creators have crafted films that are at once timeless and yet by definition of their form, ephemeral.

Otherly Instagram Account
https://www.instagram.com/otherlyseries/?hl=en

Edutopia; Focus on classroom use of social media.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-social-media-account-your-class

Pagefreezer; Detailed overview of legal concerns for school social media use. https://blog.pagefreezer.com/k12-schools-official-social-media-accounts-protect-student-privacy

Em Yue
https://emyue.me/
Website for filmmaker Emily Yue, showcasing their work in multiple mediums and genres.

The Audre Lorde Project
https://alp.org/
The Audre Lorde Project (ALP) is a Community Organizing Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, TwoSpirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) People of Color Communities. Initiated as an organizing effort by a coalition of LGBTSTGNC People of Color, The Audre Lorde Project was first brought together by Advocates for Gay Men of Color (a multi-racial network of gay men of color HIV policy advocates) in 1994. The vision for ALP grew out of the expressed need for innovative and unified community strategies to address the multiple issues impacting LGBTSTGNC People of Color communities.

Center for Media and Social Impact
https://cmsimpact.org/
The Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI) is a creative innovation lab and research center that focuses on media for equity and social justice. Their work bridges boundaries between scholars, media producers, social justice organizations, and communication practitioners.

Radio Rookies
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/rookies
Radio Rookies is a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.

Story Corps
https://storycorps.org/
StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

Asian American LGBT resources:
https://aapaonline.org/resources/lgbtq-aapi-resources/

on “satellite babies”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28636226/
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/13/492860463/born-in-the-u-s-raised-in-china-satellitebabies-have-a-hard-time-coming-home

Interviews with experimental animators:
https://mostlymoving.com/interviews

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About the author:

Jade Sanchez-Ventura

Jade Sanchez-Ventura is a writer and radical educator. She works in memoir and her personal essays have been published across an array of online literary journals, and in print with Slice Magazine and Seal Press. Her work has been featured on Bitch Media’s Popaganda podcast and been awarded the Slice Literary Conference “Bridging the Gap” award; a Disquiet Literary conference fellowship; and a Hertog fellowship. She is a regular contributor to MUTHA Magazine, which champions a fiery re-imagining of parenting. As an educator, she is very good at being continually wowed by her students and their words on the page. She believes a commitment to racial equity and social justice is essential to the practice of teaching. She has spent the last decade studying and implementing this pedagogical approach to education with the Brooklyn Free School, an urban democratic free school in New York City. Though she has ties to many countries, she has always made her home in Brooklyn, New York. She’s on Instagram posting about radical parenting, teaching, race, writing, and other such matters; find her @jade_m_sv.

Em Yue

Em Yue is a Chinese-American artist and filmmaker from North Carolina. Their work in documentary animation and interactive media explores the intersections of queerness, language and technology through the lens of tenderness. After studying photojournalism and studio art at UNCChapel Hill, they relocated to Los Angeles where they are currently pursuing an MFA in experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts.