Since 2008, when Vogue magazine asked Is Fashion Racist? Diversity in the runaway has not changed much. Here is a chart posted this Saturday on Jezebel after fashion week for Fall/Winter 2014. It points to the, still, lack of inclusivity of non-white models showing that around 80% of models who walked the runway were…
Here are some humble suggestions for all you manly men in journalism, to help you not write like oppressive, sexist, transphobic jerks.
1) Check your male privilege: During Monday meetings with your sports blogger bros, you could all reflect on questions such as; what does it mean to be a man who works for media…
For those who have sat in class, or worked with that radical leftist guy who is so in love with his own radical stances he has a HUGE blind spot when it comes to women, there is a new identity label called BROCIALIST to call him out on sexism and lack of intersectional analysis. Although not all socialist or radical…
Rashida Jones sold a "Noir Nail Salon-Set Dramedy" to HBO titled Claws and I wonder what it's going to look like, hopefully it won't be a classist view of working women.
Natasha Greeves from the film blog Shadow and Act described Rashida's comedy like this:
Rashida Jones and partner Will McCormack (via their Warner Bros…
It’s not like I was expecting a gender-neutral artificial intelligence from Spike Jonze, as I was already assuming “Samantha” (with Scarlet Johansson’s voice) was going to represent a straight woman, but here we go again, another lost opportunity for those like me who had some hopes on seeing a future portrayed in…
When gorgeous transgender model Jenna Talackova was featured in this month's cover of Elle Canada her photo-shoot outfits consisting of dresses, tops, skirts, jewelry, and high heels got me thinking about how trans models are portrayed in the fashion world. In other words, whenever I see MTF trans models in fashion…
Do robots mainly replicate gender stereotypes or are these technologies posing challenges to our notions of gender? This Friday, Google completed the purchase of BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas. These are not wild animals with manly wrestler names but actual running, walking, balancing robots. A New York Times …
Let's talk about machismo. Argentina might have progressive gender laws, but soccer fans are not happy to see their male team in pink. This Sunday, the players of historical argentine team Boca Juniors wore pink T-shirts in the field for the first time after controversies over the team's new color. Ever since it was…
What can some people’s fights for acquiring and affording objects of commodity teach us about inauthentic utopias, and the underlying authentic struggles for a better quality of life we are overlooking?
Washington Heights-In November the United Palace of Cultural Arts hosted the deluxe release of Junot Díaz’s third book titled This is How You Lose Her. Junot Díaz is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer and current editor of The Boston Review. Joining the conversation was Calvin Reed, the graphic novels editor at…
NYC- This afternoon traffic enforcement agent Mentoria Hutchinson made my day. I got to witness her dance routine moves and locking, wacking choreography going on as she directed traffic in an intersection of Main Street, Flushing. I was trying to not get run over by cars on my way to the seven train station.…
NYC- This evening Junot Díaz presented the deluxe release of his third book This is How you Lose Her at the UPCA in Washington Heights. When talking about being an artist of color, and surviving predominately white academic environments, Díaz suggested to his audience:
This morning Facebook did it again, and removed Colorline's Friday post about Ines Rau, the transgender model featured here in a photo spread with Tyson Beckford because it "violated the site's community standards." The images are the product of a photo shoot for OOB Magazine’s “Tropical Surrealism” spread,…
The new JLo Barbie might help Mattel inc. cater to the young Latina market with its shitty toys. But already there is some controversy, mostly online, about the doll's unrealistic proportions compared to JLo's curvy body.
Most of the press information I find about Morrisey's new book released in October, is on his declaration about not being gay. This is not new given that questions about Morrisey's sexuality, celibacy, bisexuality etc. have prevailed for the past two decades. My question: Why this need to explain his sexuality to…
What is the difference between a Brillo Box and Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box? Both are soap pad boxes from the sixties, yet one is art, and the other is not art. Simple answer that raises many more questions about the nature of art. Although not with us anymore, these are questions that motivated Arthur Danto, a New…
Carolina Drake, November 4, NYC- Apparently gay people are fairing better than their non-gay counterparts in the Latino Community, but how does citizenship play into this equation? And where do the undocumented LGBT Latinos fit in?
We already know about these guys who feel entitled to occupy extended amounts of space at the costs of other people’s (usually women’s space) in the subway.
