“Two Easy Steps To Make Hollywood Less Sexist”
Geena Davis has two suggestions for making films and television shows less sexist. They’d work well for increasing diversity of all kinds.
“On a Tootsie Roll”
Riffing off Melissa McCarthy’s Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Academy Awards and off the film Tootsie, film critic Bobby Rivers writes: “Hollywood, please give us more witty comedies like Tootsie and make the casts racially diverse. Give minority actors more opportunities. Then start giving more love to actors […]
Hollywood’s Self-Fulfilling Delusion around Race
NPR’s John Ridley talks about the lack of diversity in film adaptations of comic book characters: “There’s a self-fulfilling delusion at work in the studio system that white audiences won’t pay to see black actors cast outside a narrow type of role.” But a new study indicates, that’s […]
Women Read Comics in Public
Here are some pictures of the ladies reading comics for Read Comics in Public Day. As Gail Simone writes, “Take note everybody in comics!” (For the record, Carol read Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service 5 on a sidewalk bench, but there’s no photo).
Milestone!
So much Milestone going on! Milestone creator Dwayne McDuffie talks with The Atlantic about “reinventing personal mythologies, pop-cultural representations of race and an investigation of what shapes our moral frameworks” and how much he likes writing romance. Meanwhile, Evan Narcisse shares his memories of Milestone Comics–with pictures.
The Cultural Gutter 