SXSW Takes on Trans Rights in Texas

In 2017, as the United States closed its doors to refugees from Muslim-majority countries, 60 Minutes aired a segment on Canada’s Syrian refugee program that was measured, humane, and quietly devastating in its contrast. Families were arriving, being resettled, building lives within a system that, while imperfect, still operated on the premise that refuge was something to be extended rather than withheld. Watching that from the United States, where policy had shifted toward restriction and exclusion, made it difficult to ignore the distance between what this country had long claimed to represent and what it was willing to do in practice. Keep Reading →