- 1. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- ... to Filipino Americans in search of their roots, which is an important endeavor considering the wide-scale and systemic whitewashing of Phillipine culture that is frequently found in American literature. ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 2. Netflix's "Avatar the Last Airbender" Prioritizes Asian American & Indigenous Representation In Recent Cast Updat
- (TV)
- ... fans for missing plot elements from the original story and misrepresenting the characters we all know and love. However, the biggest fault of this adaptation was its whitewashing of a narrative so ingrained ...
- Created on 04 November 2021
- 3. Celebrated Historian Bettany Hughes Helps Us Face The Future More Fearlessly On BUST's "Poptarts" Podca
- (Poptarts)
- ... continues to influence us today. In this fascinating podcast episode, Hughes talks about inhaling the intoxicating fragrance of the storied blue lotus flower, challenging the male whitewashing of history, ...
- Created on 08 October 2020
- 4. You Need This "Baby-Sitters Club" Podcast In Your Lif
- (Entertainment)
- ... deeply gendered constructs of Kristy’s Big Day, and a closer look at the whitewashing of Stoneybrook’s early history vis-à-vis The Ghost at Dawn’s House. BUT! There’s also a running tally of Claudia’s ...
- Created on 03 September 2020
- 5. Jenny Slate Steps Away From Biracial "Big Mouth" Role: "Black Voices Must Be Hear
- (Entertainment)
- ... a character of Chinese and Hawaiian descent. Whitewashing continues to be a huge problem in the entertainment industry – and voice acting allows a certain level of anonymity, which only makes it worse. ...
- Created on 25 June 2020
- 6. Legendary Transgender Activists Marsha P. Johnson And Sylvia Rivera To Be Honored With New York City Monument
- (Arts)
- ... of the movement to have a “name and a face. […] The LGBTQ movement was portrayed very much as a white, gay male movement […] This monument counters that trend of whitewashing the history.” City officials ...
- Created on 31 May 2019
- 7. We Need To Listen To Megan Fox, And To All The Women Who Were Silenced Before #MeToo
- (Feminism)
- ... on Twitter. Several months later, she was one of the first to publicly critique the whitewashing of the movement, telling the New York Times that "the floodgates have opened for white women." "I don't think ...
- Created on 11 December 2018
- 8. How “Crazy Rich Asians” Star Constance Wu Is Using Her Platform To Change Hollywood
- (Movies)
- ... instances of blatant whitewashing, posting, “Can we all at least agree that hero-bias & ‘but it’s really hard to finance’ are no longer excuses for racism?” When I ask if she’s faced any backlash for ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 9. Margaret Cho Punches Up At Trump, Weinstein And Woody Allen: BUST Review
- (Entertainment)
- ... on Tilda Swinton and Hollywood whitewashing and shared an absurdly funny impression of her mom’s accent. This woman jokes about AIDS, for God’s sake. Even so, nothing about her seems forced or fake; Margaret ...
- Created on 14 October 2017
- 10. Hey, Scarlett Johansson — If You’re Choosing ‘Feminism Over Race,’ You’re Doing Feminism Wrong
- (Movies)
- When Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead for the live-action version of the popular Japanese manga The Ghost In The Shell last year, we were not happy — and we weren’t alone. Margaret Cho started ...
- Created on 09 February 2017
- 11. Constance Wu Compares Casey Affleck’s Oscar Nomination To Trump’s Election
- (Entertainment)
- Fresh Off The Boat star Constance Wu has used her platform for good many times before, speaking out against whitewashing and for more Asian visibility in Hollywood. Yesterday, Wu spoke out against ...
- Created on 25 January 2017
- 12. 'Fresh Off The Boat' Star Constance Wu Is Taking Hollywood To Task: BUST Intervie
- (TV)
- ... in the end is being true to my heart.” For Wu, that means using her voice to call bullshit on Hollywood stereotypes, clichés, and whitewashing. For example, over the summer, she grabbed headlines by ...
- Created on 23 January 2017
- 13. 8 Songs By Female And Queer Southerners You Need To Know Right Now
- (Music)
- ... an elegant, swelling number that dissects the whitewashing of yoga and stripping of the practice's history and context. 3. She Returns from War -— "Threads" (from Oh, What A Love, 10 Ft. ...
- Created on 10 October 2016
- 14. Why I Won't Be Watching The 'Ghost In The Shell' Rema
- (Movies)
- ... American community and fans of the original franchise alike. This film became another act of whitewashing Asian narratives and an erasure of Japan's cultural history. Let’s break this down with a series ...
- Created on 22 September 2016
- 15. This Modeling Agency Is Challenging The Stigma Against Muslim Women
- (Style)
- ... the rise of Haute modesty fashion: “I think it is important for these women to see themselves in the industry.” Nailah Lymus. Image via Facebook The need to combat whitewashing in the modesty industry ...
- Created on 20 September 2016
- 16. Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Has Found Its Leads — And They’re Almost All People Of Color
- (Movies)
- ... of Rue in the Hunger Games and how fans freaked out that the character was cast by a black actress. Really, internet? With Hollywood's history of whitewashing characters of color, should we really be surprised ...
- Created on 14 September 2016
- 17. This Asian-American Turns The Tables On The History Of Hollywood's Depiction Of Asian Wome
- (Arts)
- Weary of the whitewashing in Hollywood, blogger Michelle "Mimi" Villemaire attempts to put the red light on yellowface by transforming herself into a long list of Hollywood's portrayals of Asian characters ...
- Created on 28 June 2016
- 18. My Dermatologist Told Me To Bleach My Brown Skin: BUST True Story
- (Feminism)
- ... “returning to homeostasis” for one body means radical alteration for another. My dermatologist’s proposed medical solution was essentially a clinical whitewashing, one that was emotionally damaging and ...
- Created on 10 March 2016
- 19. 'SNL' Reminds Us That Beyoncé Is, In Fact, Blac
- (TV)
- ... have been whitewashing her. Take this A+ exchange from the sketch for example: "Maybe this song isn't for us?" "But usually everything is!". SNL's criticism of the general public's opinions is still on point ...
- Created on 15 February 2016
- 20. #OscarsSoWhite: The Sequel
- (Movies)
- ... Innaritu, the director of Revenant). At this point, the whitewashing of the Oscars fails to be shocking but remains completely unacceptable. Last year was dubbed “the whitest Oscars since 1998” and #OscarsSoWhite ...
- Created on 14 January 2016
