Culture
Margaret Cho's North Korea Skit Was Cringe-Worthy
On Sunday night at the Golden Globes, I cringed when Margaret Cho appeared, dressed in an oversized North Korean Army uniform, looking stoic and completely silent at the beginning of a comedy... Read more »
Cliff Huxtable is the Fantasy. Bill Cosby is the Reality.
So now the cliché is complete. Phylicia Rashad, Bill Cosby’s TV wife, has come to his defense.
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Three Cheers for Gugu Mbatha-Raw
You’re going to hear a lot about Gugu Mbatha-Raw in 2015.
She has a role in the much-anticipated Wachowski space opera Jupiter Ascending in February. She’s filming the “Untitled NFL... Read more »
A New Talk Show Puts Women of Color Front and Center
I have always been fascinated by talk shows because even though there are millions of people watching, the format seems made for introverts.
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Artists Yarn-Bomb LA Museum With Words "Black Lives Matter"
Over the weekend, a group of artists stitched a giant phrase onto the fence of the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles: Black Lives Matter.
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Female College Coaches Get No Respect
Champion hockey coach Shannon Miller at a press conference in the fall, shortly before she was let go.
Right before the holidays, Shannon Miller, the women’s ice hockey coach... Read more »
The Killers Within: Home Invasion Movies and Violence Behind Closed Doors
They are movies about a kind of sadism and sociopathy that fuels sexual and domestic violence in our actual homes, but which we have no language to address directly.
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Oh Joy Sex Toy: The Condom
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. In this week’s comic, Erika and Matt give a pitch for that ol’ classic: the condom.
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Scarlett Johansson is the Wrong Choice for "Ghost in the Shell"
Whitewashing, the practice of casting white actors to play characters that should have been people of color, has been a Hollywood staple since the very beginning of the film industry.
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Real-Life Nuns Are No Joke
Nuns are often portrayed as either evil or a joke—or in the case of this Nunzilla toy, both. Photo by Choking Sun.
Nuns get a bad rap. Until this year, my understanding of what nuns are like didn’... Read more »
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