Tag: hollywood

News

PoC News in America

Election news is heating up as we get closer to November. This week we have a lot of Oscars-adjacent news.

Movies

#OscarsSoWhite Scorecard

Post author By Karishma
Post date Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
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This week is the Oscars, which means around the country, people are cramming in their last chances to have social media bragging rights over whether they watched all the Oscar-nominated movies before the Oscars broadcast.

Tags #OscarsSoWhite, Academy Awards, actors of color, actresses of color, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, hollywood, Jamie Foxx, Lupita Nyong'o, Mo'nique, morgan freeman, movies, oscars, poc representation in film, rita moreno

Pop Culture

Ranking Celebrity Responses to #OscarsSoWhite

Post author By Karishma
Post date Monday, February 1st, 2016
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Oh man, everything is wonderful and terrible. The Internet hate fuel cycle has been in overdrive this week thanks to #OscarsSoWhite making the rounds, allowing us to add names to our Celebrity Shitlist.

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This Week in Lady Reads

Lady Reads is a bit heavy on the pop culture this week, but that’s just because so much cool news came out! But don’t worry, we’ve got dick jokes and FEELS too!

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This Week in Lady Reads

Lots of interesting reads this week, but let’s start with the news everyone’s talking about:

Tags 90s music, bend it like beckham, cosmo, cyberbullying, fat-shaming, hillary clinton, hollywood, internet trolls, male entitlement, Neil deGrasse Tyson, racism, Rand Paul, self-published books, South Carolina, suicide, women writers

News

PoC News in America

This past week wasn’t a great week for people of color. There were some highs, but there were a lot of lows.

News

PoC News in America

The Superbowl has come and gone, but the hilarity of Key & Peele’s Richard Sherman & Marshawn Lynch interview sketch lives on forever.

Tags #BlackLivesMatter, #UseMeInstead, adoption, Amira and Sam, Arizona, aver duvernay, bell hooks, Ben & Jerry's, Benedict Cumberbatch, beyond, Black Lives Matter, Celine Sciamma, Charles Blow, congressional black caucus, D'Angelo, David Oyelowo, Eddie Huang, eddie murphy, fantastic four, Ferguson, Fresh Off the Boat, ghostbusters, Girlhood, hollywood, Humans of New York, jane the virgin, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Williams, Jessie Hernandez, key and peele, Larry Wilmore, leslie jones, Marissa Alexander, mechad brooks, michael b. jordan, Michael Fassbender, Ms. Marvel, nicki minaj, police brutality, politics, pop culture, public radio, racism, Ramarley Graham, Rashida Jones, rita moreno, saved by the bell hooks, Serena Williams, shonda rhimes, SNL, sofia the first, star wars, Sundance, The Nightly Show, TLC, Vidal Chastanet, Viola Davis, Yale

News

PoC News in America

We’re gearing up for the Super Bowl (meaning party food), which means we’re bookending this week with some sports news.

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Post author By [E] Sally Lawton
Post date Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
2 Comments on Dispatches from Ladyblogland

What did you read over break? Here’s what ended up on my list.

Movies

A Holiday Movie Scorecard

The holidays are coming up, which means it’s almost Oscar season, which means it’s time to camp out in the movie theaters!

Tags annie, diversity in film, holiday movies, holiday scorecard, hollywood, horrible bosses 2, interstellar, Jamie Foxx, Mockingjay, QuvenzhanÃ© Wallis, The Interview

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Post author By [E] Sally Lawton
Post date Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
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We’re falling for Dispatches this week.

News

PoC News in America

I wish we didn’t publish as early as we did because last Sunday was a busy day for news!

This Week in Misogyny

I love debunking hoaxes and bullshit “studies.” I hate all the other terrible things I have to tell you about. You win some, you lose some. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Tags #twitterpurge, abortion, abortion freedom rides, AP Computer Science, bill maher, birth control, black hair, body positivity, Buzzfeed, campus sexual assault, Captain Marvel, Cards Against Harassment, childcare subsidies, cissexism, EastBurn, Erin Andrews, evolutionary psychology, food-shaming, gangs, Girl Scout Barbie, Hair Cuttery, hollywood, IBM, Iraq, ISIS, Jody B. Hice, johns hopkins, kirk minihane, Marissa Alexander, Maryland, matthew durham, medicaid, minimum wage, misogyny, obama, operation save america, Philadelphia, portland, rape, revenge porn, rom coms, Rosie the Riveter, sara hellwege, Scotland, sex work, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sheila kihne, Stand your ground, stop patriarchy, street harassment, Ted Cruz, Texas, The Fosters, The Onion, THINX, Todd Akin, tom greer, transition, Trophy Scarves, UConn, What's the Scoop?, women in business

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny Isn’t Wearing Spanx

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, March 7th, 2014
2 Comments on This Week in Misogyny Isn’t Wearing Spanx

This week we’ve got some good news, some Oscars news, and the usual assortment of fucked up shit. Let’s get down to business. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny is Going for the Gold

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, February 14th, 2014
6 Comments on This Week in Misogyny is Going for the Gold

So many people have medalled in Misogyny this week! I’m not giving them medals, though. More like epic stink-face. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)