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Friday February 03, 2017
Porn-o-nomics: Drawing back the curtain on the online porn industry
Online pornography is ubiquitous, instantly available and often free. There's a lot of anxiety about the social consequences of that, but not much understanding of how this multi-billion-dollar industry actually works. This week, Day 6 kicks off a four-part series on the economic forces driving online pornography.
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Friday April 07, 2017
DAY 6 How a husband and wife came to love each other more as wife and wife
It's been one year since Zoe Knox returned to work after transitioning. Zoe is transgender and had been with her spouse as a heterosexual couple for more than 20 years. When Zoe came out, it was a shock, but they worked through the transition side-by-side and are still together as a family. "The more things change" is a Day 6 documentary by Laurie Allan.
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Friday April 21, 2017
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Is The Handmaid's Tale the dystopian nightmare saga we need now?
Next week marks the launch of Hulu's widely anticipated new TV show based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. The novel has already seen a spike in sales since the election of Donald Trump and become a frequent reference point for explaining the current political mood. Is it the dystopian nightmare saga we need now? More
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Gay men in Chechnya are being rounded up, jailed and tortured
Reports of a brutal crackdown on gay men in the Russian republic of Chechnya gained even more momentum this week, with increasingly credible reports of widespread arrests, abductions and torture. Human Rights Watch calls it an anti-gay purge. Writer and civil rights activist Maxim Eristavi says it's unprecedented. More
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Would Donald Trump have won if he was a woman? A new play says probably
Next week, a new play called "Her Opponent" opens off-Broadway in New York City. It's a 35-minute gender-reversed re-enactment of excerpts from the 2016 U.S. presidential debates. Donald Trump is played by a woman. Hillary Clinton is played by a man. And the response from the audiences has been surprising. More
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"I stick my neck out for nobody." What Casablanca can teach us about the refugee crisis
Casablanca marks its 75th anniversary this year, in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since its 1942 premiere. Film historian Noah Isenberg says the film is even more relevant today as a commentary on the experiences of refugees during war. More
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Why S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders continues to speak to us 50 years later
When Susie Hinton was 15, she was so dismayed at the social divisions in her high school that she wrote a novel about it. Her creative writing teacher gave her an 'F' but The Outsiders, which was published 50 years ago this Monday, went on to be one of the most celebrated books ever written for young adults. More
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Riffed from the Headlines 22/04/2017
Riffed from the headlines is our weekly news quiz where we choose three riffs linked by one story in the news. Guess the story that links the riffs and you could win a Day 6 tote bag. More
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