Step into my film school! The importance of casting in breaking open movie stereotypes
Did any of you catch Matt Zoller Seitz’s pieces on underrated actors and actresses? Given that the purpose of “top ten” lists is to make people argue about who should really be on the list and obviously there are great people not on the list who are underrated, I’m going to say that any list [...]
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8/23, Never Forget.
OMG you guys did you feel it? There was a 5.8 earthquake in Virginia, which we felt as an earth-shaking 2.2 here in New York. WHERE WERE YOU? I was walking to the copy machine, it was pretty crazy. Apparently all of DC is evacuating their office buildings. Folks in my office have been told [...]
...read moreVirginia Prisons Will Strengthen Policy Against Shackling Pregnant Inmates
This is a guest post by Katherine Greenier.
The DOC will now strengthen regulations that protect a pregnant inmate’s dignity and health, and the health and safety of her pregnancy. Ankle restraints or restraints that in any other way restrict the woman’s movement will not be used during transportation outside the prison, or during labor, delivery and post-partum recovery.
Love, Sex and Interracial Dating
Over at Racialicious, Latoya is hosting some amazing roundtable discussions about race and dating. You can find them all here. Our own Holly is featured in the Asian roundtables (parts one, two and three), and Lauren and I will both be contributing to the white roundtable, which I believe will go up at some point [...]
...read moreReason No. 5,234,108 to Hate KBR
They are now seeking to recover the costs of defending rape and hostile work environment claims brought by Jamie Leigh Jones. They assert that her rape claim was frivolous, unreasonable, and groundless and that she brought the claims in bad faith. Their proof? Essentially she did not act like we expect a rape victim to [...]
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Class war? Or one-sided attack?
If I don’t have it, why should you? It’s the basis of the resentment I hear and see on the part of people who snarl about those unions (who get so! much!) those striking Verizon workers, those students on the J-1 visa, teachers, public service workers, and others. Instead of thinking, “Hey, that’s fucked. We [...]
...read moreThis just in: Bi men are real!
A new study has found something about bisexual men that may surprise some people: they exist! The study took the revolutionary step of attempting to recruit bisexual men by recruiting in online venues that actually targeted bisexual men, as opposed to previous studies which had recruited by advertising in gay-oriented publications. A lot of bisexual [...]
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