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Ellen Page and her best friend Ian Daniel are back with another episode of their VICE series “GAYCATION,” this time featuring a look at a day of resistance in Washington, D.C.
“GAYCATION” is a VICE mini-documentary series that first aired in 2016 in which Page and Daniel travel to different countries around the world and examine the state of life for the LGBTQ community there. During the first two seasons they confronted hate and prejudice, challenged Ted Cruz on his views surrounding queer rights and examined the state of social and political life for LGBTQ people in countries very different than America.
Now, the pair are returning for a special episode titled “GAYCATION: UNITED WE STAND” that takes a look at what President Donald Trump’s administration means for the LGBTQ community.
The special will premiere on Sunday, April 30th at 10PM ET on VICELAND. Missed the previous episodes of “GAYCATION”? Head here.
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Most teens think their parents are totally embarrassing. One dad figured out a way to use that to his advantage.
Bradley Herbst of Jacksonville, Florida created a rule to get his 14-year-old daughter, Sydney, to spend less time on her cell phone while they’re together. On Fridays, he drives her to and from school, and she’s not allowed to be on her phone during those car rides. If she breaks the rule, he will walk her into school dressed in whatever wild costume he decides to wear that day.
And he goes all out with his costumes.
Herbst told HuffPost he often chooses his costumes based on current events or things his kids are studying in school. He also takes ideas from friends, who sometimes lend him their own costumes.
Every Friday, the dad posts photos of his costumes on Facebook.
In the two years he’s been driving Sydney ― and now her brother, Andrew ― to school in costume, he’s never had to resort to walking them into the building. “They’re too afraid to get on their phones!” Herbst said. “They don’t even have them out. They’re packed away in their backpacks.”
As the dad’s photos show, Sydney is not always amused by his costumes, but Herbst said she’s come around to it.
“My daughter’s friends and classmates absolutely love it,” he said. “I think it’s taken Sydney until this year to actually enjoy it herself. Once she started enjoying it, she starting posting a pic of me in my costume, every Friday morning, to her Snapchat.”
He added, “Her friends can’t wait to see what I’ve come up with. She’s had a number of her friends tell her that they wish their dad would do something like this, and they tell her how cool they think I am.”
Herbst’s friends and family love seeing his Facebook photos every Friday. “They’re actually disappointed if there’s a Friday with no school,” he said.
The dad’s costume tradition has even reached strangers around the world through social media.
“I hope other parents get my message of how important it is to find a way to communicate with your kids while they’re ‘unplugged,’” he told HuffPost. “It’s so hard to get that phone out of their hand, you might need to come up with a creative way to do it. And, if it turns into a fun thing, even better!”
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Former Vice President Joe Biden stopped by George Mason University Wednesday morning to speak to students about sexual assault prevention on college campuses.
The event, held by Biden’s sexual assault awareness organization It’s On Us, was live streamed on George Mason’s website and featured faculty and student speakers, along with “13 Reasons Why” actress Alisha Boe and producer Joy Gorman.
Boe said that playing her character Jessica, who gets raped in the series, has given her insight into the emotional trauma so many survivors experience.
“We want the survivors in the room today to know that your voice matters, your story is important and your truth is real,” Boe told the crowd of George Mason students. “You are never, ever, ever alone.”
When Biden took the stage he explained that his passion to combat violence against women came from his father.
“Everybody thinks that maybe my mom or sister was abused, thank God to the best of my knowledge that was not the fact,” he said. “But my dad used to say the greatest sin a man or woman could commit was the abuse of power… The one thing he could not stand is the notion of the abuse of a woman.”
Consent requires affirmative consent.
Former Vice President Joe Biden
The most important lesson his father taught him and his siblings, Biden said, was to intervene. And every college student in the country has an obligation to do just that, the former VP added.
“Both men and women have an obligation to help survivors in any way they can,” Biden told the crowd.
To the women gathered, Biden said that statistics show female sexual assault survivors in college are most likely to confide in their roommate or friend. Unfortunately, statistics also show that those roommates and friends often don’t seek help for the survivor.
And to the men, the former VP reiterated the importance of consent: “Consent requires affirmative consent.”
“Our society is going to be judged by future generations about our civility and our decency,” Biden said. “One of the measures we’re going to be looked at is how did we deal with this issue? There is never a culture of justification for any of this. Brutality is brutality. Human rights are basic. I don’t care what’s your religion ― no religion, no culture can be sustained or should be tolerated that says it’s OK to abuse another human being.”
Biden urged young men to take responsibility in doing their part to change the culture of sexual violence on college campuses. He ended on an important reminder, telling the crowd: “Rape and sexual assault are not about sex. They’re about power.”
Head over to It’s On Us to learn more about the organization.
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Do you need more judgment in your life? Don’t feel like your family, colleagues and roommates are giving you enough flak day-to-day?
Now you can pay for a robot to do that.
On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled Echo Look, a camera meant to “help you look your best.” According to Amazon, the device can take full-length photos of you and, among other features, it can give you a “second opinion” on how your outfits look.
Mom, is that you in there?
The Echo gives feedback using Style Check, an app that uses an algorithm to compare and rate your outfit options.
We haven’t tried out the Echo Look ourselves, but honestly we’re a little concerned about getting fashion advice from robots. Historically, they haven’t exactly been known as snappy dressers.
The app will also recommend styles and clothing options to the users, leading to what TechCrunch calls a “pretty clear revenue stream for the company after the hardware has been sold.”
Right now, the Echo Look is only available by invitation. Those interested in having a robot help dress them can request an invite on the device’s Amazon page.
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A draft executive order to withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement is under consideration, a senior Trump administration official said on Wednesday, confirming an earlier report from Politico.
It was unclear whether the order would be enacted by President Donald Trump, who has vowed to pull out from NAFTA – a U.S., Mexico and Canada trade pact – if he cannot win better terms for America.
Trump has accused Mexico of destroying U.S. jobs, and this week he set 20 percent tariffs on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, setting a tense tone as the three countries prepared to renegotiate the 23-year-old trade pact.
Last week, Trump also called Canada’s dairy protections “unfair.”
Mexico had expected to start NAFTA renegotiations in August but the possible executive order could add urgency to the timeline.
Trump criticized Mexico extensively during his presidential campaign. The United States went from running a small trade surplus with Mexico in the early 1990s to a $63 billion deficit in 2016.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Tom Brown)
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