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“Brag Better” Author Meredith Fineman Wants You To Advocate For Yourself: BUST Interview
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(Books)
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Right, it comes down to representation. Women are policed from their voice to their ankles, and I’m a white woman. I have so many amazing women of color in this book speaking about their own experiences. ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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How Has Anna Wintour Reportedly "Sidelined and Tokenized" People of Color at Vogue? New Exposé Reveals a Toxic Workplace
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(Style)
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... representations of race and Wintour’s treatment of their employees of color caused?
Lee spoke with Black fashion journalists, including current and former Vogue staff, about their experiences working ...
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Created on 27 October 2020
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DC Comics’ Latest Event Showed The Necessity Of Diversity In Superhero Media
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(Movies)
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DC Comics has made it clear they are here to not only take film, television, and comics by storm, but they intend to do so consciously and with diverse representation in mind.
On Saturday, DC Comics ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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Black Bisexual Actress Javicia Leslie Is Playing The New "Batwoman" Lead And We're Here For It
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(TV)
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... in January 2021.
Check out Javicia Leslie's latest Instagram post to see how much representation matters.
View this post on Instagram
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Created on 10 July 2020
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Jenny Slate Steps Away From Biracial "Big Mouth" Role: "Black Voices Must Be Heard"
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(Entertainment)
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... the creative team behind Central Park supported Bell’s decision to leave. They released a statement vying for increased representation of Black and mixed race actors within their show.
This is a tim ...
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Created on 25 June 2020
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Nicole Kang of "Batwoman" talks Superheroes, Quarantine, Asian Representation, and BLM Solidarity: BUST Interview ...
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(TV)
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... I know and that I have to learn about and that I can continue to bring stories that have not been told to light; to add my body and my identity to the landscape of American cinema. I believe in representation ...
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Created on 15 June 2020
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Meet The Real-Life Women Of Hulu’s New “Mrs. America,” A Series About The ERA
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(TV)
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... equal rights and representation in the late 1960s. But nothing is this simple. The ERA, and the women fighting for and against it, still have a long way to go.
This is the backdrop of the new FX and ...
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Created on 03 April 2020
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Disney's Queer Representation Problem ...
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(Movies)
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... release of Disney films that promised genuine representation.
While Disney/Pixar has been progressive in its pursuit of inclusivity they’ve been missing the mark in the area of LGBTQ+ representation. ...
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Created on 25 February 2020
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9 YA Love Stories That Will Make You Swoon
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(Books)
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... is the very real possibility of a romance between her and her Tolkien-obsessed co-worker Reid. Upside manages to tie in all different forms of representation that are so important from body image to queer ...
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Created on 14 February 2020
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What We Can Learn From “Birds of Prey” and the Male Gaze
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(Movies)
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After Suicide Squad failed with DC fans, with its weird plot and “Hot Topic” aesthetic, many fans left the theaters with a new love for Harley Quinn, the zany, loveable anti-hero, while others were ...
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Created on 12 February 2020
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Natalie Portman’s Cape and 9 Other Feminist Moments We Loved From The 92nd Academy Awards
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(Entertainment)
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... ly animated film about embracing your natural hair won for Best Animated Short in one of our personal favorite moments of the night. Created by Karen Rupert Toliver due to “a firm belief that representat ...
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Created on 10 February 2020
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This is my 3-Year-Old Daughter's Fourth Women's March — Why This Matters
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(Feminism)
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... ay.
We need signs of hope, and Skyler was June Jordan's saying epitomized: children are the way the world begins again and again. She was a tangible representation of change, of the potential for us to course ...
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Created on 17 January 2020
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Latina Activist Wins Boston City Council Seat By 1 Vote After Recount
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(Feminism)
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... gayness in a few circles, and I didn’t do that.” It’s quite important that both canidates are Latinas and St. Guillen is openly gay. Visibility and representation is especially vital in elections government ...
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Created on 10 December 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Told To “Smile More” To Get Men To Vote
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(Feminism)
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... , a spokeswoman for the Barbara Lee Foundation that conducts nonpartisan research on women running for office, and seeking to advance women’s equality and representation in American politics, remarked h ...
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Created on 12 November 2019
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7 Teen Activists Of Color You Need to Know Who Are Leading The Fight Against Climate Change
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(Feminism)
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... bringing more diversity and representation into the ongoing fight against the climate crisis:
1. Isra Hirsi
Isra Hirsi is the executive director and co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike, an ...
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Created on 01 October 2019
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Misogyny and Manacles: The Real Story Behind "Wonder Woman"
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(Entertainment)
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... of fight left in her.
This article originally appeared on F Yeah History and has been reprinted here with permission.
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From "Captain America" to "Captain Marvel": Why Representation Matt ...
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Created on 17 May 2019
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This Comic Series Brings #MeToo Into The DC Universe
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(Books)
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... Of Owning One's Power
Danielle Paige Is Bringing Women’s Stories To The Forefront Of Comics
From "Captain America" to "Captain Marvel": Why Representation Matters
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Created on 03 May 2019
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"Captain Marvel" And The Joy Of Owning One's Power
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(Movies)
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... embraces their uniqueness to lead the life that they choose to lead.
Top photo via Marvel Studios / Captain Marvel
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Created on 26 April 2019
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From "Captain America" to "Captain Marvel": Why Representation Matters ...
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(Entertainment)
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... catch up on the past decade or so of Marvel movies. Turns out many of them are as bad as I had feared all along. Most of them do not pass the Bechdel Test, which is a bare minimum for gender representation ...
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Created on 10 April 2019
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom Is Entering Politics As California’s "First Partner"
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(Feminism)
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom is an award-winning filmmaker, an activist for gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights, the mother of four young children, the creator of the non-profit organization The Representation ...
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Created on 17 January 2019
