I have found my people.

Me too. Well, if Tia were black and had beaded braids. I love me some Tony, but Tia had a star case and didn’t need no damn harmonica.

I’m just going to leave this here and wish the rest of this never happened. And by this, I mean her seriously damaged adulthood.

I just want you to know that you are not alone. I still have my Gaslight station attendant shirt, and I still vividly remember renting a party bus with 12 other “Crowegirls” to go to Austin to see TOFOG at Stubbs Barbecue. Ah, I was young.

Ye gods, this is just terrible.

And engage mid-bogglingly oblivious racism while they're at it. PETA is the WORST and damages the AR movement as a whole because of its ridiculous high profile and constant struggle-stunts.

Thank you. I thought she was too young and unformed for Silver Linings Playbook, but American Hustle was ludicrous. All the praise for her performance totally flummoxed me, because she was ALL KINDS OF TOO YOUNG for that part.

She was SO GOOD on a episode of Grimm a couple of seasons ago, I was a little stunned at the level of improvement. She's very good on Suits and 12 Monkeys! Good for her; I never would have called that one!

City House is a wonderful organization. I interned there in graduate school. It's sometimes amazing to me that such a progressive and truly committed social services organization exists in the same city. But below Plano's lacquered image, this is the place that had a wave of teen suicides in the 80's, when I was in…

Actually, snark all you like about Plano. I grew up as the black child of schoolteachers - decidedly middle class in a town that evolved from country, where my best friend's family actually kept lions (yes, lions) in their front yard, to a snooty mega-rich suburb that mounted a production of Hairspray a few years ago…

I went to school with Lance Armstrong, from sixth grade through junior year, when he moved to Austin to train as a pro triathlete and sprint racer, and started pretending he was from Austin instead of Plano. He was arrogant and self-important for as long as I knew him. He cheated off of me in health class. HEALTH. …

I can understand this feeling, although I've always liked him. There is something sleazy and try-hard about him, despite clear talent, and he's played a lot of douchebags. His work in which he plays on that sleaze factor and does something interesting with it, like Limitless and American Hustle, were very impressive…

I wrote "you guys" because this is a common, and frankly simplistic argument. A more salient point would be to look at the demographics of filmgoing and ticket sales. And you would find that Hispanics actually account for 25% of ticket sales while only being 17% of the population. So there should be a lot more…

I was waiting for the census data/percentage of the population argument. Predictable, but so incredibly boring. Besides, that black actor is British, so is he really an "accurate representation (rounded) of the population of America as a whole?" Jeez, you guys really need to get some new material, or at least be a…

Yes. Two people out of ten totally negates the need for "outrage", especially since it's not like Vanity Fair has a history of blindingly white covers with people of color, when featured at all, are in the back (hi, David Oyewelo) or literally in the fold. Nope, nothing to see here.

This is something that really grates. I've been watching tennis since the mid-80's; at least it used to be actual celeb girlfriends from A to D list, like Barbara Streisand and Brooke Shields for Andre Agasssi, and whatever Pete Sampras' wife's name is (too lazy to Google; played Sarah Michelle Gellar's older sister…

I'm sure in the context of this course, and critical race theory in general, "whiteness" is understood as a social construct, not a "lack of melanin". I think the fact that "whiteness" is larger and more encompassing a concept than either "privilege" or "supremacy" can capture is a part of the function and intent of…

This is Lee Daniels. His internalized racism is all over his work, and he ain't ready to deal with it yet. Tea will be served for quite some time, I imagine.

I have used this technique with adolescent clients, and it can be very effective if used strategically and, as has been stated, after establishing strong trust and rapport. It can't be used by everyone though, because if it comes off as a practiced "technique", it will seem an inauthentic attempt to relate. Teens,…

Except Keira Knightley is NOT classically trained. Despite her regular appearances in period dress, she started on TV as a child actress. She's not a RADA, LAMBDA, Central or Old Vic alum, and just made her West End debut in 2009, and is due to hit Broadway for the first time this fall. She's almost entirely a TV…