<description>&lt;p&gt;The latest episode of &lt;em&gt;The Persistence&lt;/em&gt; opens with a very relatable childhood crisis: that first moment when a story you believed your whole life suddenly unravels. Host &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://obsessivelycurious.substack.com/about"&gt;Angélica Cordero &lt;/a&gt;uses this myth-busting moment as a bridge into a larger cultural awakening, tracing how early 20th-century art movements like Dada, Neo-Dada, Judson Dance Theater, and Fluxus began shredding America’s shiny narratives long before the 1960s demanded it. Along the way, she spotlights boundary-pushers such as Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, and Yoko Ono, revealing how their weird, radical, rule-breaking work was not just art but prophecy. These creators exposed cracks in the culture decades before the mainstream could admit the foundations were shifting. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This episode invites listeners to rethink the stories they were raised on, reflect on their own moments of disillusionment, and recognize why challenging the status quo has always been a necessary act of resistance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This episode was written by and produced by Angélica Cordero, with a little help from ChatGPT. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our theme song is &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://fold.bandcamp.com/track/dont-kid-yourself-baby"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don’t Kid Yourself Baby&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://fold.fm/"&gt;Fold&lt;/a&gt;, used with their blessings. Podcast artwork for &lt;em&gt;The Persistence &lt;/em&gt;features Mexican-American activist &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/jovita-idar"&gt;Jovita Idar&lt;/a&gt; and was created by Tamra Collins of &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/sunroot.studio/"&gt;Sunroot Studio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resources For Fellow Wascally Wabbits&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Want the full context? Check out the episodes referenced here:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Books&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo12527020.html"&gt;An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism&lt;/a&gt; by Catherine Craft&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://archive.org/details/autocritiqueessa0000rose"&gt;Autocritique: Essays on Art and Anti-Art, 1963-1987&lt;/a&gt; by Rose, Barbara&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo18291671.html"&gt;The Experimenters&lt;/a&gt; by Eva Díaz&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://archive.org/details/marcelduchampfou0000camf/page/6/mode/2up"&gt;Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: Its History and Aesthetics in the Context of 1917&lt;/a&gt; by W. A. Camfield&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2154/chapter-abstract/248941/Neo-Dada-1951-54Between-the-Aesthetics-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext"&gt;Neo-Dada 1951-54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and the Politics of Identity&lt;/a&gt; by Seth Mccormick&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pop-art-and-the-origins-of-post-modernism/891E2BA54B2CB71F51BEDAF256FD7AF9"&gt;Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism&lt;/a&gt; by Sylvia Harrison&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/pop-art-and-the-origins-of-postmodernism/barbara-rose-pop-pragmastism-and-prophetic-pragmatism/37B62E8EE81AB70E1755A166D7823EF5"&gt;“Barbara Rose: Pop, Pragmatism, and ‘Prophetic Pragmatism’”&lt;/a&gt;, p. 115–145&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts/design/a-critics-defense-of-cattelan-banana-.html"&gt;A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana&lt;/a&gt; by Jason Farago (New York Times, New York, Dec 8, 2019)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/in-depth/peggy-guggenheim/about-peggy/"&gt;About Peggy Guggenheim&lt;/a&gt;, (Peggy Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://gildedage2.omeka.net/exhibits/show/highlights/movements/avantgarde"&gt;"The Avant-garde and the Society of Independent Artists"&lt;/a&gt;, (Movements, Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century, New York Art Resources Consortium, New York, NY, 2011)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://open.byu.edu/history_of_the_fine_arts_music/dada"&gt;“Chapter 23: Dada”&lt;/a&gt; by D. Rogers &amp; Julianne Gough Hartley, (History of the Fine Arts: Visual Art, Brigham Young University)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/"&gt;The Creative Act: Marcel Duchamp’s 1957 Classic, Read by the Artist Himself by Maria Popova&lt;/a&gt;, (The Marginalian, Aug 23, 2012)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/marcel-duchamp-the-creative-act"&gt;The Creative Act&lt;/a&gt; by Marcel Duchamp, (Convention of the American Federation of Arts in Houston, Texas, April 1957)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/03/enter-digital-archives-of-the-1960s-fluxus-movement-and-explore-the-avant-garde-art.html#google_vignette"&gt;“Enter Digital Archives of the 1960s Fluxus Movement and Explore the Avant-Garde Art of John Cage, Yoko Ono, John Cale, Nam June Paik &amp; More"&lt;/a&gt;,” by Josh Jones, (Open Culture, Mar 15, 2018)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127947"&gt;George Maciunas. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127947"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fluxus Manifesto. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127947"&gt;1963.&lt;/a&gt;, (The Collection, MOMA, New York, 2025)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://aaep1600.osu.edu/book/01_Duchamp.php"&gt;Marcel Duchamp&lt;/a&gt;, (Artist and Musician Biographies, AAEP 1600: Art and Music since 1945, Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, The Ohio State University, 2024)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“The National Purpose” series, Life Magazine&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3k4EAAAAMBAJ&amp;#38;lpg=PP1&amp;#38;pg=PA22#v=onepage&amp;#38;q&amp;#38;f=false"&gt;“‘LIFE’ Present a Crucial New Series: The National Purpose”&lt;/a&gt;, (May 23, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 23-41)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7U4EAAAAMBAJ&amp;#38;lpg=PP1&amp;#38;pg=PA86#v=onepage&amp;#38;q&amp;#38;f=false"&gt;Part II: Archibald MacLeish and Adlai Stevenson,&lt;/a&gt; (May 30, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 86-88, 93-102)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AE8EAAAAMBAJ&amp;#38;lpg=PP1&amp;#38;pg=PA108#v=onepage&amp;#38;q&amp;#38;f=false"&gt;Part III: David Sarnoff and Billy Graham&lt;/a&gt; (Jun 6, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 108-110, 117-126)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3E4EAAAAMBAJ&amp;#38;lpg=PP1&amp;#38;pg=PA98#v=onepage&amp;#38;q&amp;#38;f=false"&gt;Part IV: John W. Gardner and Clinton Rossiter&lt;/a&gt; (Jun 13, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 98-118)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5k4EAAAAMBAJ&amp;#38;lpg=PP1&amp;#38;pg=PA114#v=onepage&amp;#38;q&amp;#38;f=false"&gt;Part V: Walter Lippmann and Albert Wohlstetter&lt;/a&gt;, (Jun 20, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 114-116, 122)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/b/black-mountain-college/black-mountain-college-john-cage-merce-cunningham"&gt;"Performance Art, The Black Mountain College, John Cage &amp; Merce Cunningham"&lt;/a&gt;, (Art Terms, Tate, London)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.frieze.com/article/yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind-2024-review"&gt;The Restless Innovation of Yoko Ono&lt;/a&gt; by Juliet Jacques, (Frieze, Feb 15, 2024)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-how-marcel-duchamp-broke-the-rules-and-shocked-the-art-world-again-and-again-180986868/"&gt;"See How Marcel Duchamp Broke the Rules and Shocked the Art World Again and Again"&lt;/a&gt; by Eli Wizevich, (Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, D.C., Jun 27, 2025)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://d="&gt;Yoko Ono, Cut Piece&lt;/a&gt;, (Re.Act.Feminism, Berlin)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://theincubator.live/2016/12/16/yoko-ono-cut-piece-documented-by-the-maysles-bros-carnegie-recital-hall-new-york-march-21-1965/"&gt;“YOKO ONO, CUT PIECE documented by The Maysles Bros, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, March 21, 1965”&lt;/a&gt; by Greg Letson, (The Incubator, Dec 16, 2016)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1W4Wdki9o"&gt;Germany - Dada: and Alphabet of German Dadaism&lt;/a&gt; documentary Helmut Herbst (1968)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y"&gt;John Cage on Silence&lt;/a&gt;, (Jul 14, 2007)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscZWRrFRbQ"&gt;Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done&lt;/a&gt;, (The Museum of Modern Art, Feb 1, 2019)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhK3Ep4HiI0"&gt;Merce Cunningham’s Working Process&lt;/a&gt;, (Walker Art Center, Jul 28, 2009)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Support&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s free, it’s fast, and it tells the algorithm overlords this work matters. Supporting &lt;em&gt;The Persistence &lt;/em&gt;means supporting &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of it: the podcast, the posts, the zine, the whole enchilada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Send a post or an episode to a friend, a professor, or that cousin who loves debating politics at dinner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One quick Apple Podcasts review does more than &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; marketing budget I don’t have.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every coffee, every donation (and paid subscription) &lt;strong&gt;literally&lt;/strong&gt; keeps the mic on and the stories flowing. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Collaborate (let’s dream bigger): &lt;/strong&gt;Educators? Creative? Filmmaker/Podcaster? Org with a mission? 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The Persistence

Angélica Cordero

Episode 13: Hypnotized, Mesmerized by What Our Eyes Have Found

DEC 12, 202541 MIN
The Persistence

Episode 13: Hypnotized, Mesmerized by What Our Eyes Have Found

DEC 12, 202541 MIN

Description

<p>The latest episode of <em>The Persistence</em> opens with a very relatable childhood crisis: that first moment when a story you believed your whole life suddenly unravels. Host <a target="_blank" href="https://obsessivelycurious.substack.com/about">Angélica Cordero </a>uses this myth-busting moment as a bridge into a larger cultural awakening, tracing how early 20th-century art movements like Dada, Neo-Dada, Judson Dance Theater, and Fluxus began shredding America’s shiny narratives long before the 1960s demanded it. Along the way, she spotlights boundary-pushers such as Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, and Yoko Ono, revealing how their weird, radical, rule-breaking work was not just art but prophecy. These creators exposed cracks in the culture decades before the mainstream could admit the foundations were shifting. </p><p>This episode invites listeners to rethink the stories they were raised on, reflect on their own moments of disillusionment, and recognize why challenging the status quo has always been a necessary act of resistance.</p><p>This episode was written by and produced by Angélica Cordero, with a little help from ChatGPT. </p><p>Our theme song is <a target="_blank" href="https://fold.bandcamp.com/track/dont-kid-yourself-baby"><em>Don’t Kid Yourself Baby</em></a> by <a target="_blank" href="https://fold.fm/">Fold</a>, used with their blessings. Podcast artwork for <em>The Persistence </em>features Mexican-American activist <a target="_blank" href="https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/jovita-idar">Jovita Idar</a> and was created by Tamra Collins of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/sunroot.studio/">Sunroot Studio</a>.</p><p>Resources For Fellow Wascally Wabbits</p><p><strong>Want the full context? Check out the episodes referenced here:</strong></p><p>Books</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo12527020.html">An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism</a> by Catherine Craft</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://archive.org/details/autocritiqueessa0000rose">Autocritique: Essays on Art and Anti-Art, 1963-1987</a> by Rose, Barbara</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo18291671.html">The Experimenters</a> by Eva Díaz</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://archive.org/details/marcelduchampfou0000camf/page/6/mode/2up">Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: Its History and Aesthetics in the Context of 1917</a> by W. A. Camfield</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2154/chapter-abstract/248941/Neo-Dada-1951-54Between-the-Aesthetics-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext">Neo-Dada 1951-54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and the Politics of Identity</a> by Seth Mccormick</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pop-art-and-the-origins-of-post-modernism/891E2BA54B2CB71F51BEDAF256FD7AF9">Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism</a> by Sylvia Harrison</p><p>Specifically:</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/pop-art-and-the-origins-of-postmodernism/barbara-rose-pop-pragmastism-and-prophetic-pragmatism/37B62E8EE81AB70E1755A166D7823EF5">“Barbara Rose: Pop, Pragmatism, and ‘Prophetic Pragmatism’”</a>, p. 115–145</p><p>Links</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts/design/a-critics-defense-of-cattelan-banana-.html">A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana</a> by Jason Farago (New York Times, New York, Dec 8, 2019)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/in-depth/peggy-guggenheim/about-peggy/">About Peggy Guggenheim</a>, (Peggy Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://gildedage2.omeka.net/exhibits/show/highlights/movements/avantgarde">"The Avant-garde and the Society of Independent Artists"</a>, (Movements, Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century, New York Art Resources Consortium, New York, NY, 2011)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.byu.edu/history_of_the_fine_arts_music/dada">“Chapter 23: Dada”</a> by D. Rogers & Julianne Gough Hartley, (History of the Fine Arts: Visual Art, Brigham Young University)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/">The Creative Act: Marcel Duchamp’s 1957 Classic, Read by the Artist Himself by Maria Popova</a>, (The Marginalian, Aug 23, 2012)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/marcel-duchamp-the-creative-act">The Creative Act</a> by Marcel Duchamp, (Convention of the American Federation of Arts in Houston, Texas, April 1957)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/03/enter-digital-archives-of-the-1960s-fluxus-movement-and-explore-the-avant-garde-art.html#google_vignette">“Enter Digital Archives of the 1960s Fluxus Movement and Explore the Avant-Garde Art of John Cage, Yoko Ono, John Cale, Nam June Paik & More"</a>,” by Josh Jones, (Open Culture, Mar 15, 2018)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127947">George Maciunas. </a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127947"><em>Fluxus Manifesto. </em></a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127947">1963.</a>, (The Collection, MOMA, New York, 2025)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://aaep1600.osu.edu/book/01_Duchamp.php">Marcel Duchamp</a>, (Artist and Musician Biographies, AAEP 1600: Art and Music since 1945, Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, The Ohio State University, 2024)</p><p>“The National Purpose” series, Life Magazine</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3k4EAAAAMBAJ&#38;lpg=PP1&#38;pg=PA22#v=onepage&#38;q&#38;f=false">“‘LIFE’ Present a Crucial New Series: The National Purpose”</a>, (May 23, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 23-41)</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7U4EAAAAMBAJ&#38;lpg=PP1&#38;pg=PA86#v=onepage&#38;q&#38;f=false">Part II: Archibald MacLeish and Adlai Stevenson,</a> (May 30, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 86-88, 93-102)</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AE8EAAAAMBAJ&#38;lpg=PP1&#38;pg=PA108#v=onepage&#38;q&#38;f=false">Part III: David Sarnoff and Billy Graham</a> (Jun 6, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 108-110, 117-126)</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3E4EAAAAMBAJ&#38;lpg=PP1&#38;pg=PA98#v=onepage&#38;q&#38;f=false">Part IV: John W. Gardner and Clinton Rossiter</a> (Jun 13, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 98-118)</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5k4EAAAAMBAJ&#38;lpg=PP1&#38;pg=PA114#v=onepage&#38;q&#38;f=false">Part V: Walter Lippmann and Albert Wohlstetter</a>, (Jun 20, 1960, Chicago, IL, p. 114-116, 122)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/b/black-mountain-college/black-mountain-college-john-cage-merce-cunningham">"Performance Art, The Black Mountain College, John Cage & Merce Cunningham"</a>, (Art Terms, Tate, London)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.frieze.com/article/yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind-2024-review">The Restless Innovation of Yoko Ono</a> by Juliet Jacques, (Frieze, Feb 15, 2024)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-how-marcel-duchamp-broke-the-rules-and-shocked-the-art-world-again-and-again-180986868/">"See How Marcel Duchamp Broke the Rules and Shocked the Art World Again and Again"</a> by Eli Wizevich, (Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, D.C., Jun 27, 2025)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://d=">Yoko Ono, Cut Piece</a>, (Re.Act.Feminism, Berlin)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://theincubator.live/2016/12/16/yoko-ono-cut-piece-documented-by-the-maysles-bros-carnegie-recital-hall-new-york-march-21-1965/">“YOKO ONO, CUT PIECE documented by The Maysles Bros, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, March 21, 1965”</a> by Greg Letson, (The Incubator, Dec 16, 2016)</p><p>Other</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1W4Wdki9o">Germany - Dada: and Alphabet of German Dadaism</a> documentary Helmut Herbst (1968)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y">John Cage on Silence</a>, (Jul 14, 2007)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscZWRrFRbQ">Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done</a>, (The Museum of Modern Art, Feb 1, 2019)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhK3Ep4HiI0">Merce Cunningham’s Working Process</a>, (Walker Art Center, Jul 28, 2009)</p><p>Support</p><p>It’s free, it’s fast, and it tells the algorithm overlords this work matters. Supporting <em>The Persistence </em>means supporting <em>all</em> of it: the podcast, the posts, the zine, the whole enchilada.</p><p>Send a post or an episode to a friend, a professor, or that cousin who loves debating politics at dinner.</p><p>One quick Apple Podcasts review does more than <strong><em>any</em></strong> marketing budget I don’t have.</p><p>Every coffee, every donation (and paid subscription) <strong>literally</strong> keeps the mic on and the stories flowing. </p><p><strong>Collaborate (let’s dream bigger): </strong>Educators? Creative? Filmmaker/Podcaster? Org with a mission? 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