July 2012
Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt: Boris Johnson Legacy So... →
choongcommunist:
No African or Muslim political advisers representing a City that is 40% non white
Has not had a single public meeting on the issue of race equality policy in the GLA in 4 yrs
Ended the popular schools Black History Month Scholar competition (funded by Accenture not the…
REALLY? WTAF?
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The Mary Sue: Dear Journalists Covering SDCC →
themarysue:
postcardsfromspace:
DID YOU KNOW THERE IS A WORD THAT MEANS BOTH “FANBOY” AND “FANGIRL” AND ALSO COVERS PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS NEITHER?
It is “fan.”
You’re welcome.
I’m nominally out of the office for a few days, so instead of getting a quick meditation on how “fanboy” usually denotes…
I have mixed feelings. Because geek culture (like so much pop culture) defaults to...
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“If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama”...”
– If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)
Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”. Belongs to a church...
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We are the 40ish%: Women and demographics
Female athletes will comprise over 40% of Olympic athletes, are 40% of San Diego Comic-Con attendees, made up 40% of The Avengers’ audience, 57% of Brave’s audience, 60+% of The Hunger Games’ audience, 51% of Amazing Spider-Man’s audience.Yet we still have to fight to be recognized. Why? Why is it so shocking that women will not only show up for the things we love, but that...
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A gender-neutral third-person pronoun has arisen... →
ceruleancynic:
queerandpresentdanger:
“What’s also interesting about the kids’ language is that people — mostly academics — have been trying to introduce a gender-neutral singular pronoun into the English language for about 200 years, with very little success. And then a group of kids in Baltimore just make one up and start using it.”
Huh.
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Panel on race in comics engages the elephant in... →
racebending:
Entertainment Weekly covered Racebending’s diversity panel at ComicCon 2012!
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Can CBS' Elementary and BBC's Sherlock Co-Exist? →
bakerstreetbabes:
There’s no shortage of Sherlock Holmes interpretations in the current pop culture zeitgeist.
There’s the big-screen Sherlock Holmes, played by Robert Downey Jr., for two movies now and counting. There’s the BBC version, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, which just debuted its critically acclaimed second season on PBS in May. And now there’s a third man entering the race: Jonny...
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Marie likes to draw: sonic-hip-attack:[TW: Rape]... →
sonic-hip-attack:
[TW: Rape] List of Comedians defending Tosh
List of Comedians that are being unapologetically dense about this issue:
Jim Norton (“Why is it okay for an actor to play a rapist, but not for a comic to joke about it?”)
Louis C.K. (“your show makes me laugh every…
I was going to leave it alone, because it’s a pain in the ass to address this.
Look, I get that...
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Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet: Alert to Podfic Makers... →
transformativeworks:
There are a number of discussions in fan circles right now regarding the Random House Audio Fan Fiction Contest being held at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International. The publisher is offering fan fiction authors the opportunity to record their own original…
Um: No. Not cool.
