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by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse One of the things that is constantly on my mind while I am blogging here is, “What do we want?” It’s a question regularly flung at groups outside of the dominant culture when they launch a complaint against some effort to appease them. But ...
By Deputy Editor Thea Lim **TRIGGER WARNING**: The following post is about physical and sexual abuse in detention, and focuses on a trans woman who has chosen to speak out about the abuse she endured. Her choice is incredibly brave and her story is deeply distressing...
By Deputy Editor Thea Lim On the SCI FI Wire (surprise!) I saw this: This photo is one of 20 colour photographs taken by Dulce Pinzón for her exhibition “The Real Story of the Superheroes,” running at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in DC, from November 4 -28. On ...
By Guest Contributor Dumi R. L’Heureux Lewis, originally published at Uptown Notes So for the past few years I’ve been jousting with my family and loved ones around the issue of same sex marriage and repeatedly found my argument falling on deaf ears. In...
Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García “The Gift” marked, I hope, a real transition point for our team of protagonists. Because we got to see Al as not only sympathetic, but close to well-rounded; his sacrifice, I feel resonated for the viewers. More on this later. Mea...
By Guest Contributor jbrotherlove, originally published at jbrotherlove In case you missed it, CNN aired Black Men in the Age of President Obama this weekend...
By Guest Contributor Jenn, originally published at Reappropriate The LA Times has a story outtoday on a report released by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center detailing the Asian American vote in the 2008 presidential election...
By Guest Contributor Jha, originally published at Rebellious Jezebel Blogging //
The literature on sex equality is shot through with accounts of this predicament, variously described as a “double bind,” a “Catch-22,” or a “tightrope.” In many workplaces, women are pressured to be “masculine” enough to be respected as workers, but also to be “feminine” enough to be respec...
By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García DC Comics has begun drumming up buzz for the “First Wave” world – an alternate universe populated by pulp characters like Doc Savage and The Spirit, and pulp incarnations of modern characters like Batman and the first Black Canary. Mond...
by Latoya Peterson The reality of popular culture was nothing new. The truth of the world landing on me daily, or hourly, was nothing I did not expect. But this book was a real slap in the face...
by Guest Contributor J Chang, originally published at Init_MovingPictures While it’s still relatively new news, I thought I’d tacklethis brief article from Variety republishing the Screen Actor’s Guild annual diversity research. Whil...
by Latoya Peterson I was peacefully watching Mad Men when this madness peeked into my commercial break. At 00:59: “Bingo. Asians. They pack light, travel efficiently, and have a thing for slip on shoes, god love ‘em.” “That’s racist!” “I’m like my mother. I stereotype –...
by Carmen Van Kerckhove Addicted to Race is our weekly talk show podcast about all things race. Here’s a rundown of what you’ll find in this episode: MLK’s daughter recently declared that her father didn’t take a bullet for same-sex unions. Why is...
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea Plaid I emailed my friend Kaisha that I got a free ticket to see Fela!, the new musical co-conceived, directed and choreographed Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones...
