ActivAmerica Matthew Silverman presenting a controversial but convincing

presenting a controversial but convincing analysis

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ActivAmerica Matthew Silverman presenting a controversial but convincingDrawing from fairy tales, ghost stories, and science fiction, the stories in ActivAmerica explore how we confront (and exert) power and re imagine ourselves through sports and athletic activities. A group of girls starts an illicit hockey league in a conservative suburb. A recently separated woman must run a mile a day in order to maintain her new corporate health insurance. Children impacted by environmental disaster create a "mutant soccer team."