The Brian Lehrer Show
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The Brian Lehrer Show
The Issue With the New York Times on Trans Issues; Teaching Climate Change; Oscar Nominee Docs: All That Breathes; Returning to Your Real Name
4 segments
Coming up on today's show:
- Jo Livingstone, critic, contributor to The New York Times and an organizer of NYTLetter.com, and Sabrina Imbler, staff writer at Defector and former fellow for The New York Times, join to discuss the latest on the open letter to The New York Times, in which over 1,000 contributors have accused the paper of biased coverage of transgender issues.
- Luca Cantagallo, 7th grader from Queens and IndyKids reporter, and Katie Worth, investigative reporter and the author of Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America (Columbia Global Reports, 2021), talk about their IndyKids podcast episode and how climate change is taught in school.
- This week, hear from the creators of the five films nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Oscar, ahead of the ceremony on March 12th. Today: Shaunak Sen, Delhi-based filmmaker, video artist, and film scholar, discusses his film, "All That Breathes" which follows the work of two Muslim brothers in Delhi who rescue and treat injured black kites, a bird of prey at risk from urban life and the Delhi's air pollution.
- Wall Street Journal columnist Callum Borchers recently wrote about people who originally went by easy-for-English-speakers nicknames, but are now asking their co-workers to step up and call them by their actual names. Callers facing the dilemma of name-splaining vs going by another name call in and share their stories.