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Help Increase Nuanced Racial Representation in The Media

If you can  spare a few bucks (every dollar helps) please consider kickstarting this great film project!
 
Synopsis

Cedric and Tiffany, two college friends, realize their feelings for each other and after an illicit night together, decide to make a pact. They vow to end their respective relationships in order to build one together. When one of [...]


Brazilian fantasy action flick Besouro available to watch at this link
If you need a reminder… the story goes… As essentially an action movie set in 1920s Bahia, and based on the life of a legendary capoeirista from Bahia who uses the power of Candomble to fight the harsh conditions which, even post-abolition, the black population [...]


I’m liveblogging my watch of Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Watch along with me! Starts at 10am EST.
<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=ae04be6add” _mce_href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=ae04be6add” >LiveBlog: Diary of a Mad Black Woman</a>


The first movie I’m watching for the Tyler Perry Project is Diary of a Mad Black Woman. I’m going to start at 10am eastern time this Saturday. A few people have indicated a desire to watch my head implode, so there will be a live blog of this. I’m using Cover It Live to literally [...]


Tyler Perry’s little outburst at Spike Lee has shown up so many times in my newsfeed that I finally broke down and read about the press conference and then this letter he posted on his website called “They Are Trying To Kill Madea!”1
My first thought: Well, I certainly hope so.
But, you know, I don’t want [...]


I wish that M. Night would read this moving essay by a young Chinese American adoptee about how the whitewashing of The Last Airbender made her feel as both a fan of the show and as an Asian person. I wish he would read it and have to respond to her in person.
Avatar is important [...]


(crossposted from my personal blog)
I know that pointing out RoF Fail is a little like kicking a puppy, but you know how it is when Nick Mamatas sends you a link clearly meant to induce blog-worthy rage — you just have to accommodate him.
So, LJ user torrain was reading the latest issue of Realms of Fantasy and didn’t get [...]


So apparently this month is LGBT Pride Month. I therefore snagged this from ontd political which gives the info that it was first put together by students of Earlham College and then link-enhanced by the current poster. Do I need to mention the part where ‘phobic assholes of any kind will be summarily deleted [...]


The Linkmistress would like to interrupt her regular linkspams to bring you an actual blog. With words. As usual, civility is requested and will be enforced. Iron fist, velvet glove etc.
crossposted. The following critique is based on the media I have consumed and the experiences I have had. Feel free to rec media in [...]


Via Angry Asian Man, a great article that makes a point about the ineffectiveness of protests about racism in mainstream Hollywood films. Basically, if we don’t patronize the good portrayals created by our own filmmakers, we’re unlikely to see much change in the racist dreck being cranked out by the Hollywood factories, because they [...]