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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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Out of the “50 greatest female roles” as voted on by 1800 Hollywood insiders for @THR in celebration of #InternationalWomensDay, a total of three were nonwhite—Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating & Mulan—and none were “international” unless you mean UK/Australia
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Mostly the poll shows how white, recent, commercial and weirdly provincial Hollywood’s idea of the cinematic canon is.

Hermione Granger being at the top of the list of greatest roles for women is just...painful.
I mean this list is like a relief map of Hollywood’s diversity and inclusion problem. It makes you despair.
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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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There are reasons to not support Beto O’Rourke. This is not one of them. O’Rourke took no money from oil PACs or any other PACs; he got donations from oilco EMPLOYEES—in small dollar amounts—because he ran for US Senate in Texas, the state with 40% of all US oil & gas jobs.
The Grist article calls out 29 donations from oil & gas execs. The average size of donations to O’Rourke from oilco employees was $166. The donation cap is $2500+$2500.

O’Rourke raised $75 MILLION for his Senate campaign against Ted Cruz.
To put this into perspective: Running in a state that is synonymous with oil, just 0.35% of all donations to O’Rourke came from employees of the oil industry.

This is not buying what buying influence looks like.
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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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It is amazing how this NYT article on skater Gracie Gold’s depression and body dysphoria manages to erase @MiraiNagasu and the controversial decision that sent Gracie to the Olympics to begin with—because there’s reason to suggest they’re linked.
nytimes.com/2019/01/25/spo…
Like many figure skating articles before it, the NYT article celebrates one of the most problematic archetypes in skating and in women’s sport at large: The racist, sexist cult of the “golden girl”—blond, white, sylphlike, dazzlingly bright at all times.
The Golden Girl archetype hurts nonwhite women by making them seem like aberrations from the golden “norm”—damaging prospects for selection, reducing subjective scores, cutting marketing and media support.

In skating, the archetype began with Sonja Henie.
washingtonpost.com/news/retropoli…
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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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What a phenomenal conversation with @theblindcook Christine Ha here at #SXSW! Christine, you're my superhero! Keep an eye on this thread for a link to the audio and video from this session when it's available, all!
We talked about Josh Marks, the other finalist in Season 3 of #Masterchef, who was diagnosed (too late) with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and took his own life. Disability has many faces, and to @theblindcook's point, we are ALL "temporarily able."
chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazi…
Please give if you can to the Josh R.. Marks Memorial Fund in his memory. Thank you.
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#InternationalWomensDay was celebrated across #Rojava today - and all week.

We wanted to share some of the best reporting we've seen - short and in-depth, recent and older - that highlights the voices of Rojava's women and their leadership role in the society here.

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Kurdish academic @DilarDirik is an excellent source for getting a broader understanding of the realities and (geo)politics of Rojava.

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Stand together.
Speak together.
Tweet together.

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