Jane O'Meara Sanders: Bernie Mitten Memes Are 'Really Cute'

By Sally Pollak Posted on January 22, 2021 at 4:41PM

Correction, January 23, 2021:  An earlier version of this story misidentified the person who worked on the jacket with Jake Burton Carpenter.

I Watched a Vermont-Connected 'Satirical Bernie Sanders Comedy Movie' So You Don't Have To

by Margot Harrison Posted on December 8, 2020 at 8:04PM

If you want to see a satire of Bernie bros, or even a recognition that Bernie really connected with the young folks, you're out of luck. At this point, the movie seems less interested in ridiculing Bernie than in skewering Jane Sanders (Elaine Ballace); the Burlington College scandal gets a lot of play.

Dance Video "The Activation" Champions Voting and Social Justice

by Elizabeth M. Seyler Posted on October 30, 2020 at 2:34PM

“I’ve felt helpless and frozen sometimes,” dancer Elise Simone recounts in the video, “and my emotional response to news is to … experience the progression of that, that frozenness or heaviness … the heaviness of the pain.” The process of getting up off the ground with others in the video made her “feel electric.” The original call to participants stated, “Our superpowers live in our abilities to be advocates and activists.”

Vermont Humanities Announces Virtual Fall Conference on Democracy

by Chelsea Edgar Posted on August 10, 2020 at 5:06PM

Each webinar will focus on a different aspect of democratic theory and practice. The first, “Women’s Suffrage: Moral Advancement or Politics as Usual?” will examine the history of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States from the perspectives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass.

Daniel Bernard Roumain Begins 24-Hour Protest Performance

by Margaret Grayson Posted on October 24, 2019 at 4:53PM

Steve MacQueen, the Flynn's artistic director, said the idea for a residency had been around for a while, but that they had been waiting for the right person. DBR fit the bill, he said.

Writer Moustafa Bayoumi to Discuss New York's Arab Community Post 9/11

by Kymelya Sari Posted on September 3, 2018 at 5:00AM

, but I wouldn't promise that would be the final version. I was doing it as a fact-check as well.

Madaila Release New Single, "Where Do We Go From Here?"

by Dan Bolles Posted on January 30, 2018 at 2:36PM

Art Against the (Trump) Machine

by Rachel Elizabeth Jones Posted on November 10, 2017 at 8:42AM

he's taking us backwards. He's a shameful public servant.

What Feminism Can Speak To: Katha Pollitt and Janell Hobson

by Rachel Elizabeth Jones Posted on September 26, 2017 at 3:46PM

weren’t part of that march. Among white women who are probably more progressive and liberal and may identify as feminist, there are still blind spots.

Trump's Proposed Budget Would Cost Vermont Arts Groups Millions

by Dan Bolles Posted on March 18, 2017 at 7:00AM

As presently constructed, Trump's budget is unlikely to pass. And it's already rankled even conservative lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Still, the president's proposal represents the clearest threat to federal arts funding in decades.