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As RedState covered on January 25, California Governor Gavin “Hair Gel” Newsom and his First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom are making a cottage industry from her supposed non-profit, The Representation Project.

[T]he Open the Books organization has done an investigation into The Representation Project surrounding its funneling of so-called educational videos into the middle school curriculum of California school districts. Since the California Teachers’ Unions are Governor Newsom’s biggest contributors, one might see this as a conflict of interest.

Conflict of interest doesn’t even cover it. According to the Open the Books investigation, The Representation Project claims to reach 2.6 million students over 5,000 schools in 11,200 classrooms. Schools districts have paid between $49 to $599 dollars to subject students to Siebel Newsom’s “gender justice” curricula. According to The Representation Project’s “Impact Report,” the organization provides screening exercises and curricula for each film. These exercises,

“are used to shape the conversation after film screenings, and to encourage viewers to apply film content to their own lives. The curricula is used by teachers and professors to guide more in-depth student learning on the concepts presented in the films. The Rep Project furnishes age-appropriate curricula for middle school, high school, and college that was developed by sociology and child psychology experts to account for differences in comprehension level and learning styles at different ages.”

I have only watched one of the films, Miss Representation, which is supposed to make the case that media fosters “gender inequality,” by misrepresenting women’s influence in America in a certain image. The film claims to challenge the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

I consider myself a cinephile, and have a particular appreciation for a well-done documentary. Miss Representation is certainly not one of them, so I shudder to think what Siebel Newsom’s other educational films look like. Miss Representation ranks among the fair to mediocre category of documentary filmmaking, something a first year film student might crank out.

The documentary is less exploration and more indoctrination. Cribbing together 30-second images from film and television, and stringing them together with interviews from her husband (Governor Newsom appears three times), has-been actresses like Daphne Zuniga (formerly of the nighttime soap opera Melrose Place), labor activist Delores Huerta, and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi does not a documentary make. The word salads, psycho babble, and sound bite commentary offered by the interviewees has little educational value or insight.

However, more disturbing than the pedestrian film work and cliched observations is the amount of foul language and soft porn imagery present in a supposedly educational product.

From the Open the Books expose:

Warning: the description below contains coarse language.

The film features strong language and women dressed provocatively:

• Caroline Heldman, who is now executive director of Newsom’s non-profit, described women’s role in action movies as “the fighting f**k toy.”
• Actress Daphne Zuniga, famous for Melrose Place and film parody Spaceballs, suggested women should “tell those f**kers to get penis implants,” in response to being told to get plastic surgery.
• Middle school children are served images of upside-down strippers with little left to the imagination.

Lovely.

Then there’s Siebel Newsom’s other film, The Mask You Live In. In 2019, the Sacramento Bee reported on parental outrage when middle school students at a Stanislaus County school had the film shown in one of their classes.

William Springer of Patterson said his 12-year-old daughter came home traumatized after the “The Mask You Live In” was shown in her advisory class Thursday at Creekside Middle School. A portion of the documentary film shows nude images of females in lurid poses.

The images are blurred or pixelated, but Springer said they leave little to the imagination.

“Some of the images when slowed down were not blurred, and even when they are blurred, it is obvious what is going on,” Springer said. “It is absolutely profane and disgusting.”

[…]

The recommended audience for the film directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the governor’s film-making wife, is age 14 and above. The students in the single Creekside classroom where the film was played are 11 and 12.

So, not only is the governor’s wife collecting millions off this partnership with California school districts, but she is using it to peddle soft porn to minors. As Open the Books also pointed out,

Newsom’s film The Mask You Live In features the website addresses of porn sites including Porn Hub, MassiveCams, BDSM.XXX, and Brazzers.com. The pornographic images displayed in the film are tagged with descriptions such as “domination,” “face f**k,” “kinky couples,” and “…dirty brunettes.”

Our sister site PJ Media also did some coverage on the inappropriate images and subject matter of these films.

“Auditors at OpenTheBooks.com watched Newsom’s movies and read the lesson plans. What we found was, at times, shocking: sexually explicit images, political boosterism, and something called ‘The Genderbread Person,’” the exposé said.

The Genderbread Person is a graphic used to teach kids as young as preschool and kindergarten about LGBTQ ideology and how gender is supposedly different from biological sex. Open the Books found content about “gender identity and expression” and “sexual attraction” featuring the Genderbread Person for middle and high school students. The kindergarten curriculum with the Genderbread Person claims there are more genders than “boy” and “girl.” Mrs. Newsom seemingly thinks it’s never too early to start telling kids to consider their bodies at war with their identities!

These same geniuses that have banned classics such as To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, purchase this crap and allow it to be peddled by the spouse of the highest elected official in the state.

While Siebel Newsom skates the edges of pornography and dives deeply into gender identity nonsense, don’t even think that white, male privilege would escape her lens.

Of course it hasn’t.

“The Great American Lie” curriculum also features lessons on “privilege” that list being born in the U.S., being “a cisgendered man,” being “white,” or being “straight.” The Newsoms score perfectly high on the privilege scale by those standards. Students are also encouraged to become activists for the woke values into which they were just indoctrinated.

The Newsom-Pelosi-Getty San Francisco Cabal is just Davos on the Pacific, so that documentary might actually offer some educational insight.

Or something.

Exactly what type of “in-depth student learning” is occurring after viewing these documentaries? We already know none of this is age-appropriate, and if these sociology and child psychology experts are anything like the doctors that signed on to AB 2098, their expertise is not worth a plug nickel. Siebel Newsom is no better than her slickly-coiffed husband. She espouses values of feminism, inclusiveness, and freedom, while representing values of licentiousness, corruption, and slavery.