Charles Pulliam-Moore
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It Sucks That Marvel's Black Panther Might Not Feature Its Badass Lesbian Characters
On Monday evening, Marvel Studios invited a small group of reporters into its innermost sanctum (a screening room) for an early look at a number of its upcoming films. → Read More
What's Holding You Back From Running For Public Office?
Back when I was a college student living in Washington, D.C., I used to (secretly) fantasize about running for public office one day. It’s the kinda thing that happens when you live with a bunch of poli-sci nerds who all think they’re destined to become the next generation of kingmakers. It gets you thinking, “Hey. Why not me?” → Read More
Study: We're Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Be Just as Racist and Sexist as Humans
We live in a world that’s increasingly being shaped by complex algorithms and interactive artificial intelligence assistants who help us plot out our days and get from point A to point B. → Read More
Black Panther & The Crew Is What Happens When Creators of Color Tell Their Own Stories
On December 21, 2016, Jacqueline Craig, a black woman living in Fort Worth, Texas, called 911 to report that a white, male neighbor was choking her seven-year-old son, allegedly in retaliation for the child littering on his lawn. → Read More
The Assignment Might Be The Most Transphobic Movie You'll Ever See
The plot of Walter Hill’s new neo-noir crime thriller The Assignment is as straightforward as it is insanely transphobic. → Read More
Andres serrano
Andres Serrano is the sort of photographic provocateur who literally mixes religious iconography and bodily fluids like feces and semen to create photos that, one imagines, are meant to shock people into thinking they’re deep. → Read More
Photographer's All-Time Favorite Photo Is His White Friend He Painted in Blackface
Andres Serrano is the sort of photographic provocateur who literally mixes religious iconography and bodily fluids like feces and semen to create photos that, one imagines, are meant to shock people into thinking they’re deep. → Read More
Blackface
Andres Serrano is the sort of photographic provocateur who literally mixes religious iconography and bodily fluids like feces and semen to create photos that, one imagines, are meant to shock people into thinking they’re deep. → Read More
We Told You
When fans of Ghost In The Shell first learned that Scarlett Johansson (a white woman) had been cast as Major Motoko Kusanagi (a Japanese cyborg), an audible groan swept over the internet as everyone realized that Paramount was going to whitewash the hell out of a beloved franchise. → Read More
Paramount Executive Admits That Ghost In The Shell's Whitewashing Was A Very Bad Idea
When fans of Ghost In The Shell first learned that Scarlett Johansson (a white woman) had been cast as Major Motoko Kusanagi (a Japanese cyborg), an audible groan swept over the internet as everyone realized that Paramount was going to whitewash the hell out of a beloved franchise. → Read More
The Search for Everything
On a Scale of Problematic to Racist, How Bad Is John Mayer's New Music Video? → Read More
Bad White Men
On a Scale of Problematic to Racist, How Bad Is John Mayer's New Music Video? → Read More
John Mayer
On a Scale of Problematic to Racist, How Bad Is John Mayer's New Music Video? → Read More
Gabby Rivera on How Marvel's America Is Exploring the Complexities of Latinx Identity
America Chavez, Marvel’s first queer woman of color to ever star in her own ongoing comic book, closed out the inaugural issue of America by traveling back in time to World War II, pushing Captain America out of the way, and punching Hitler in the face. → Read More
America Chavez
America Chavez, Marvel’s first queer woman of color to ever star in her own ongoing comic book, closed out the inaugural issue of America by traveling back in time to World War II, pushing Captain America out of the way, and punching Hitler in the face. → Read More
America
America Chavez, Marvel’s first queer woman of color to ever star in her own ongoing comic book, closed out the inaugural issue of America by traveling back in time to World War II, pushing Captain America out of the way, and punching Hitler in the face. → Read More
Marvel
On Tuesday morning, the finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards (the Oscars of sci-fi and fantasy writing) were announced by the World Science Fiction. Unsurprisingly, collected volumes of Marvel’s critically acclaimed Black Panther and Ms. Marvel series were both nominated for Best Graphic Story. → Read More
Black Panther and Ms. Marvel Nominated for Hugo Awards Days After Marvel VP Blamed Them for Sales Slump
On Tuesday morning, the finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards (the Oscars of sci-fi and fantasy writing) were announced by the World Science Fiction. Unsurprisingly, collected volumes of Marvel’s critically acclaimed Black Panther and Ms. Marvel series were both nominated for Best Graphic Story. → Read More
HB2
In the wake of a deal struck between North Carolina’s Democratic Governor Roy Cooper and leading state Senate Republicans to roll back parts of the discriminatory HB2 “Bathroom Bill,” the NCAA has decided to bring college championships back to the state. → Read More
North Carolina's 'Repeal' of HB2 Was All the NCAA Needed to Come Crawling Back
In the wake of a deal struck between North Carolina’s Democratic Governor Roy Cooper and leading state Senate Republicans to roll back parts of the discriminatory HB2 “Bathroom Bill,” the NCAA has decided to bring college championships back to the state. → Read More