![]() Apple products streamline the creative process for me,” says Miya. “Whenever I’m creating, it’s mainly about staying organized. to imagine, look forward, and collaborate on a film - she used her favorite workflow on Mac which includes the Celtx Script app for writing, the Pitch app for treatments, and Notes on iPad for production. “Mac has transformed my storytelling capabilities by becoming a conduit for editing sequences, sound design, and mixing and producing beats.”Īs a recent director in Beats Black Creators Program - bringing HBCU students from across the U.S. She pulls the video into her Mac, edits with Adobe Premiere and designs audio with Logic Pro. She’s interviewed a famous physicist, a renowned filmmaker, and prominent artists on iPhone. And she uses Apple technology to support every aspect of her mission. Her documentaries explore the perspectives of thought leaders and artists in the black community - as well as their journeys. Her films and stories are rooted in art, science, and Black Futurism - an emerging genre that addresses historic themes of the African diaspora with science and technology. Miya’s journey is guided on the discussion “of thought-provoking, Black female artists that haven’t been pushed to the forefront as much as their male counterparts.” ![]() Today, as a sophomore at Spelman College - the oldest Historically Black College and University for women in the U.S. Miya chose to study documentary filmmaking in Atlanta because “Black arts are emerging here, it’s the new Black Hollywood of the South and I want to immerse myself in that environment.” And she chose to minor in physics because Jordan Peele’s “Nope” inspired her to study how science can be applied to filmmaking. “The lens through which we view the world composes our reality and affirms our identity.”īorn into a family of strong women, creators, and storytellers, Miya is using the power of stories and her love of science to inspire a new generation. Spelman College, United States, class of 2025 Studying for a Bachelors of Arts in Documentary Filmmaking and Minor in Physics Scaggs uses iPhone to document activist and muralist Brandan Odums for her documentary film focused on Black Futurism. The foundation of leadership and productivity that Isaac has built as an undergrad will continue to serve as a springboard for his commitment to social justice. IPad also enables his creativity and helps “humanize what leadership looks like, by making it personal.” Through the Black + Brown Healing Project, an organization he founded to support BIPOC writers and creatives, he wrote a book of poetry capturing his experiences as a black, queer man - all on iPad. “iPad is my Swiss army knife - it works for all situations, and seamlessly with my Mac and iPhone to support my full calendar of activities.”įor academics, Isaac uses Mac with RStudio to crunch data sets and conduct research for his successful proposals - like writing statewide legislation that makes it easier for low-income students to apply to college with a single, universal application. Notes on iPad with Apple Pencil supports every aspect of his civic engagements with board members and campus leaders, as well as his research work. He’s chosen Apple technology to power every step of his work, from the lecture hall to city hall. Feeling “at home” for the first time, it inspired him to advocate for an accessible, inclusive future in education through policy change.įor the past year, Isaac has served as president of the Cal State Student Association and was recognized by the California State Legislature as the official representative of 480,000 students across all 23 CSU campuses. I learned to reject what I was, in favor of performing what they wanted me to be.”Īt CSU Fullerton, Isaac joined the Male Success Initiative, where men of color are empowered to achieve their potential. “My teachers disciplined me harder - I was always perceived as being disruptive. I love the flexibility of Apple devices, and how dependable they are, wherever I am.”Īs a recent graduate of California State University, Fullerton, business major Isaac Alferos has tirelessly engaged as a digital equity advocate and activist in higher education - and he’s made real change across California and beyond.Īs one of the few African and Asian Americans in his school, Isaac experienced systemic racism early on. President, California State University Student Association, 2021-2022 Isaac AlferosĬalifornia State University, Fullerton, class of 2022 ![]() Isaac uses iPhone 13 with FaceTime to stay connected with leaders, students, and family while traveling as CSU’s student body president. ![]()
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![]() Francisco Franco's newly installed military regime - to Chile.The Pablo Neruda Foundation is the main heir of the copyright from the poet and his only administrator, and in this condition manages multiples prints and audiovisual projects. In 1939, following his diplomatic service as consul, he helped bring more than 2,000 Spaniards - who were fleeing Gen. In addition, Neruda won praise around the world for his humanitarian work in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. In a country where poetry had long been composed by and for the well-to-do, Neruda was known as the poet of the people, often writing about the working class and Indigenous groups, as well as Chile's natural wonders. Neruda's masterwork, Canto General (General Song), is an epic history of Latin America, recounted by way of 231 poems. Referring to the rape confession in his memoir, Brodsky emphasized that she and her fellow students "have no interest in learning about him."Īll this is a startling reversal for one of the world's most famous, prolific and bestselling poets, who has often been compared to Walt Whitman. They responded with graffiti proclaiming, "Neruda, now you shut up!"Īt a #MeToo demonstration in Santiago in August, high school student Laura Brodsky, 18, said her instructors are not teaching Neruda. Oyarzun says some feminists interpreted this as Neruda telling his lover in the poem to keep her mouth shut. It begins: "I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent." Kemy Oyarzun, a poet and professor of gender studies at the University of Chile, says this was a response to one of Neruda most famous verses, an ode to silence called " Poem XV." Yet even she is less enthusiastic about Neruda these days. It's easy to misread Neruda's works, warns Kemy Oyarzun, a poet and professor of gender studies at the University of Chile. Otherwise, he says, "Readers would demand to know: 'Why are you promoting a rapist?'" Salvador Young, who buys online books for Chile's National Digital Library, says that for the past several years, he was instructed by his supervisors not to purchase Neruda's books. But Chile's feminist movement - newly energized by a series of sexual abuse scandals at the country's universities and by the global #MeToo movement - has called attention to the episode, and disdain for Neruda is spreading. Initially, his admission went almost unnoticed. The encounter was of a man with a statue," Neruda wrote in his memoir, published in 1974, a year after his death from cancer. What's more, Neruda wrote about his rape of a cleaning woman in his hotel room in 1930, in what is now Sri Lanka. His daughter was born with hydrocephalus - an accumulation of fluid within the brain that can lead to swelling of the head - and died at age 8. ![]() Neruda abandoned his only child, Malva Marina, and her mother. Pablo Neruda, then serving as Chile's ambassador to France, talks with reporters in Paris after being named winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() Activists singled out some of Neruda's verses as sexist and focused new attention on several disturbing episodes from the poet's past. ![]() The latest controversy over Neruda, who in 1971 became the second Chilean awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, sprang up in 2018 with the rise of Chile's #MeToo movement against sexual abuse. "He's been canceled," says Lieta Vivaldi, a human rights activist and member of Chile's Feminist Lawyers Association. But now he is being called out by Chile's growing feminist movement as a male chauvinist and sexual predator. Neruda has always been a polarizing figure in Chile, mainly for his left-wing politics. ![]() The poet died 49 years ago, yet his reputation remains a work in progress. It's also the spot where Neruda is buried. It's located on massive black cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. ISLA NEGRA, Chile - There's a steady stream of fans visiting the museum that once was the home of Pablo Neruda, widely considered Chile's greatest poet. The museum attracts a steady stream of visitors, despite recent denunciations of the Chilean poet, who died in 1973. A writing desk at one of Pablo Neruda's homes, now a museum, in Isla Negra, Chile, on Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() They have cut off their own arms with all these rights. It’s impossible for them to stop the Muslims now. As Pallavi Aiyar quotes Manzour Ahmad, a 61-year-old Islamic scholar in Brussels, in her book, Punjabi Parmesan: Dispatches from a Europe in Crisis, “Europeans have become victims of their own laws. What they don’t realise is that by doing so they are not just legitimising the Islamist violence but also emboldening the very regressive forces that challenge the liberal order. It’s in this vacuum that these Islamists thrive.Ĭoming back to the ‘liberals’, by turning into an apologist to Islamism and its regressive worldview, they have themselves become a threat to the modern, democratic order. Girls with a difficult past are easy to lure, so are those hailing from families that have been obsessively secular enough to uproot their children of their own religio-cultural past. Whether through the ‘Grooming Gang’ in the UK or via ‘love jihad’ in India, the Islamist template is similar: Brainwashing young girls, most of whom are still in their teens, to convert to Islam and then become a tool for the radical Islamists to orchestrate terrorism. There are numerous reports worldwide of non-Muslim girls being converted via “love jihad” - and after conversion they are pushed towards terror or terror-related activities. Since it’s no longer easier to raid and capture these women and girls, they now take recourse to love.Īdah Sharma's The Kerala Story is a 'work of art' says Catholic Bishops Council amid row over play on nuns India First | Spare India! Lessons from 'The Kerala Story' True to their learnings, the contemporary Islamists too look for non-Muslim women to “enslave them for jihad”. Historically, from Mohammed bin Qasim’s invasion onwards, there has been a constant Islamist endeavour “to kill all males, especially those capable of bearing arms, and enslave their hapless women”, as eminent historian KS Lal wrote in one of his essays. The premise of The Kerala Story is hardly a revelation. The latter’s silence - worse, muted support - to the state high-handedness in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu is both unfortunate and dangerous. But the same cannot - and should not - be expected of the Left-‘liberal’ class. The state banning it just because it finds its content uncomfortable is still understandable, given the political class’ tendency to get edgy when confronted with inconvenient truths. Victimhood has a religion, especially in India’s elite Left-‘liberal’ ecosystem.įirst and foremost, banning a film, whether Pathaan, Padmavat, Parzania or The Kerala Story, isn’t the sign of a matured democracy, far less an evolved society. Interestingly, the same journalist had not very long ago recommended people to watch Parzania, based on the plight of a Parsi family during the 2002 Gujarat riots. One senior journalist, whom Rahul Gandhi had not long ago complimented publicly in a press conference of forwarding his side of story, said the film “smacks of propaganda”. The ‘liberals’ across the country are up in arms - not against the banning of the film in the two states, but against the film itself, calling it an assault on Muslims. Stalin’s Tamil Nadu too has decided not to show it in its theatres. ![]() Not only are the lights switched off in the bedroom, but also across the entire villa, meaning the group can’t just wander around in the early hours.The Kerala Story is now banned in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal. The time the lights go out can vary, with the producers never revealing exactly when this is. Everyone just rushes into the bedroom to get ready – sometimes it’s quite a push for time.” She explained: “There are only two showers and that’s for the boys and the girls, so it’s kind of manic. ![]() Shared between 16 Islanders, Eve revealed it was “manic” getting ready for bed each night. The last main schedule of the day is shower time, though there are only two in the entire villa. In an interview with Capital FM, ex-Islander Eve Gale said: “We all have dinner, and then we beach hut and everyone documents their days, and once everyone has beach-hutted it’s shower time.” However, they have chaperons watching over them to ensure no juicy chats happen off-camera.įrom here, they are all mic’ed up again and herded into the hut to dish on the day’s drama. It is known that caterers prepare all the dinners while the group enjoys some downtime without wearing a mic. Iain Stirling has previously said it would be a “nightmare” to film dinner so the show skips it entirely. The evening is when the day is most regimented, as all the islanders have dinner together, though it is never seen on screen. Islanders have to share just two showers between 16 of them (Image: ITV) ![]() |