Category: Articles, News

News about current and upcoming genre media projects that include people of color. Info about historical projects, as well.

A Map Shows What Every Country in the World Calls Itself in its Own Language

LINK: Explore the “Endonyms of the World” Map

What the Job of a Sensitivity Reader Is Really Like

LINK: Dhonielle Clayton, author of the forthcoming fantasy novel The Belles, also works as a sensitivity reader.

“Get Out” star Lakeith Stanfield is on the trail of “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”

LINK: Fede Álvarez will be directing

Mayor Cinthya Montalvo Pérez Used Federal Funds to Build Statues of Justice League & Avengers

LINK: The statues now stand in a park in Las Sirenas dubbed Los Superhéroes

Disney used makeup to make dozens of white “Aladdin” extras “look Middle Eastern”

LINK: Because OF COURSE

Engineers sue Google for allegedly discriminating against white men and conservatives

LINK: Because, sure, why not,
of course they did

How the Founder of I Need Diverse Games is Bringing Change to a Lagging Industry

LINK: Tanya DePass, on how the gaming industry is failing to be representative – and how we can all do more to bring change.

Roxane Gay’s 2017 Reading List

LINK: “…I read many excellent books this year and only one inexcusably bad book that I am still very angry about.”

The rise of the Arab superhero — It all started with ‘The 99’

LINK: The first modern Arab comic, “The 99,” created by Kuwaiti psychiatrist Dr Naif Al-Mutawa