Gavin Newsom’s spouse pushed preachy gender movies into faculties— with state assist

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spouse Jennifer Siebel Newsom is a filmmaker whose documentaries have been seen by tens of millions — however that didn’t occur purely due to expertise. 

Siebel Newsom leaned on her highly effective hubby and his training board to push preachy flicks about “poisonous masculinity” into lecture rooms, casting her husband as an enlightened Democratic savior — all whereas raking in as much as $300,000 yearly by her nonprofit, The Illustration Venture, and for-profit outfit Ladies Membership Leisure. 

“I turned the lens on boys and males and regarded on the boy disaster in America and the way we have been failing our boys and males with this type of inflexible notion of poisonous masculinity,” Siebel Newsom mentioned about one in all her movies in an interview.

Newsom is featured as a humble-bragging speaking head in Siebel Newsom’s movies “Miss Illustration” and “The Nice American Lie” alongside a cadre of lefty activists, Democratic politicians and teachers hammering viewers with progressive totems like elevating the minimal wage as a treatment for gender inequity.

“Now we have the flexibility to step up and clear up massive issues … it’s only a query of prioritization, of political will,” Newsom mentioned in The Nice American Lie in what might simply go for a stump speech. 

Even the liberal New York Instances known as the latter movie “disingenuous” as a result of it’s directed by the partner of a prime Democrat — however the relationship isn’t disclosed to unwitting viewers. 

What’s extra, Newsom’s personal Division of Schooling shilled his spouse’s documentaries in official state pointers — after the Illustration Venture bragged in a 2014 tax submitting that its movies and “curricula” have been utilized in 1,000 California public faculties.

Newsom’s Board of Schooling advisable Siebel Newsom’s movies in controversial well being training steering in 2019 — shortly after he turned governor — that was later adopted by the state training division. The steering sparked heated debate for its concentrate on sexuality and gender identification. 

In 2020, the Division of Schooling labored with companions, together with Siebel Newsom’s state-sponsored Workplace of First Accomplice, to push “social-emotional studying” in low-performing California faculties — once more recommending her movies for lecture rooms.

“We’ve seen literacy charges on the lowest that we’ve ever had within the state. And we’ve seen math charges on the lowest we’ve ever had within the state,” mentioned Assemblymember David Tangipa.

“It is a very clear try to indoctrinate the following era of Californians. It’s lots simpler to regulate an uneducated group,” Tangipa added. “For the primary time in historical past, this era is considerably decrease educated than our mother and father and grandparents.”

Forty-four % of California eleventh graders weren’t assembly studying requirements in 2024, in accordance with the California Evaluation of Scholar Efficiency and Progress. Practically 70% have been beneath par in math.

Illustration Venture, which Siebel Newsom based in 2011 when her husband was lieutenant governor, licenses her gender-obsessed documentary trilogy — “Miss Illustration,” “The Masks You Stay in,” and “The Nice American Lie” — and one other movie known as “Truthful Play” to Ok-12 faculties, universities and companies, charging anyplace from $49 to $1500, in accordance with its web site. 

Her for-profit outfit, Ladies Membership, produces the movies out of the Newsoms’ palatial, $9 million property in Kentfield, Calif.

Illustration Venture’s curricula embrace cringey actions akin to a “Privilege Stroll” sorting college students by race, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic standing. Different instructing manuals quiz center schoolers on phrases like pansexuality utilizing a diagram labeled “The Genderbread Individual.” 

Along with free screenings in California’s struggling lecture rooms, Siebel Newsom — daughter of a multimillionaire Republican — mentioned in a 2021 affect report that 5,000 faculties throughout 50 U.S. states had proven her movies, reaching 2.8 million college students.

The Illustration Venture has earned greater than $3 million in screening and movie gross sales, paying Siebel Newsom a $150,000 wage plus further reimbursements value as much as $150,000 yearly, per IRS filings.

Siebel Newsom didn’t reply to the Submit’s questions on her nonprofit.

Siebel Newsom’s movies have been screened at school districts akin to Campbell Union and Stanislaus County, the place some mother and father have been reportedly outraged after an uncensored model of The Masks You Stay In exhibiting profanity and references to porn was mistakenly proven to center schoolers. 

On the College of Texas Austin, a male scholar who was discovered responsible of harassment in a contested Title IX investigation was compelled to look at Siebel Newsom’s “The Masks You Stay In” and write an essay as punishment.

“The Nice American Lie” pins America’s financial inequality on its “hypermasculine worth system” and “excessive masculine beliefs of cash, energy and rugged individualism.”

Truthful Play, starring Democratic Rep. Katie Porter and philanthropist Melinda Gates, offers with gender inequity at house.

Siebel Newsom is “prepping a movie that’s about local weather, Mom Earth and the female,” in accordance with a 2024 interview with the BrandStorytellingTV podcast.

A sequel to “Miss Illustration,” known as “Miss Illustration: Revolution,” has been mysteriously delayed. 

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