Education
Students carry Ute culture forward at Ute Mountain Ute school
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has more than 2,000 enrolled members but fewer than 100 fluent Ute speakers remain, highlighting the importance of these classes.
Why Gen Z Uses Humor to Cope with Death
What is our society’s relationship to death? Many are disconnected from its reality and afraid to even think of it or discuss it. How did we get here, and are there different ways to connect to this part of life that we all must face for ourselves and our loved ones? How do we reclaim death from the industries and processes that have distanced us from it?
Why Gen Z Uses Humor to Cope with Death
Season 1 Episode 4 | 9m 57s | CC
Gen Z is the first generation to have grown up wholly in the digital era. The omnipresence of social media in Gen Z’s lives, with its non-stop feed of real events, has made death more visual and present to younger people. Curly explores how platforms that feed these violent images also offer places for people to discuss death in unconventional ways.
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