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Parkland Shooting’s Jackie Corin on Zendaya-Pattinson Movie

Parkland Shooting’s Jackie Corin on Zendaya-Pattinson Movie

A24‘s dark comedy feature The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, has already become the focus of debate, despite the studio’s efforts to conceal the film’s true subject matter from its marketing. As revealed in media reports about the project that hits theaters Friday, writer-director Kristoffer Borgli‘s movie (spoilers ahead) centers on Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Pattinson), whose impending nuptials are thrown into jeopardy after the bride-to-be reveals that she planned a school shooting as a teen — and even took her dad’s weapon to school — but ultimately did not go through with it. During a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Jackie Corin — co-founder of March for Our Lives and a survivor of the 2018 Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that took 17 lives — calls the film “an inevitable evolution in storytelling,” given how frequently school attacks are part of the cultural narrative. “Gun violence, particularly in schools, is not just another dramatic device,” says Corin, who had yet to see the film. “Art has the capacity to deepen …

When the bombs fall on other people’s children

When the bombs fall on other people’s children

(RNS) — In a small town in southern Iran on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks (Feb. 28), more children were killed in a single strike on a girls school than all the American kids who died in the past two years in school shootings.  In the United States, we don’t just remember school shootings, we ritualize them. We remember the ages, the classrooms, the faces, names. We build memorials, hold vigils, replay the details until grief hardens into a kind of national muscle memory. We are told, correctly, that each child is an entire universe, and that to lose one is to tear a hole in the world. Take that instinct, the one that insists a child’s death must never be reduced to a statistic, and hold it up against this: In Minab, near the Strait of Hormuz, a girls school was bombed, leaving 165 children dead. Yet most Americans cannot name the town where it happened, much less the name of a single one of those girls. That is not because their …

Cameron Kasky, Parkland Survivor and Congressional Hopeful, Wants to Refocus the Democrats

Cameron Kasky, Parkland Survivor and Congressional Hopeful, Wants to Refocus the Democrats

Which one? Andrew Schulz. Andrew Schulz was a MAGA-friendly bro and he was saying MAGA-friendly things, warming up his audience to MAGA, and then Pete Buttigieg and Zohran Mamdani, two Democrats who are extremely different on almost all of the issues, both went on Schulz’s podcast, talked to him, and got him to say, Wait, you guys are making sense. It seems like you guys are focused on what’s actually going to benefit the lives of Americans. We’ve been speaking long enough for you to know now that one of the places where I need to hone my abilities is, I need to get better at giving shorter answers. But one of my opinions on the social media game is, attention is great, clicks are great, views are great, but what matters is the substance. I do not want to win the social media game by making the most attention-grabbing videos. I want to win the social media game by posting content that educates and informs not only the voters in my district, but also …