In the midst of a pandemic, the nation witnessed a powerful swell of anger and resentment about the long-standing inequities that have long marbled American society, with a flashpoint of this anger occurring in Buffalo. As New York State continues re-opening, and as tensions and protests continue flaring across the nation, Humanities New York realizes that there is a tremendous need for resources — including dialogue — specific to Buffalo. To this end, we are inaugurating a series of online discussions and events with The Community Long Table, a forum for Buffalonians to speak with each other about their experiences […]
West of Stonewall: The Struggle for LGBT Rights in Western New York
Fifty years since the historical uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Fifty years since the founding of Buffalo’s earliest gay rights organization, the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier. Which is the more significant for Buffalo? Humanities New York funded “Gay Liberation NOW: Buffalo Mattachine and the Myth of Stonewall” to shed light on the story of how the struggle for gay liberation in Western New York evolved, in parallel to Stonewall but not because of it. Humanities New York spoke with grantee Adrienne Hill, who co-founded the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project. Hill lays out how teaching […]
Further Readings from Turning the Tide: Communicating Climate Science
From Adam Rome: Climate scientist Mike Hulme’s Why We Disagree About Climate Change (2009). Historian Joshua Howe’s Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (2014). Psychologist Mary Pipher’s The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture (2013). Howe also has edited a wonderful collection of documents, Making Climate Change: Documents from Global Warming’s Past (2017). The documentary I mentioned about the implications of climate change for national security and international order is “The Age of Consequences” (2017). For a sense of the likely impacts of climate change more generally, I still like a 2008 book by […]
