Tag: racism

“Pokémon No”: Omari Akil Describes the Quite Real Perils of Playing While A Black Man

Read the realness at Medium.com.

A video describing the experience of playing Pokémon GO in “the real world”

Racism in Algorithims and Their Real World Impact

LINK: Intent is irrelevant when hate has such dangerous sway

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Killing off characters of color to give white characters the feels

LINK: #Spoilers Warning for current comicverse Civil War arc

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EU Plans To Rid Social Media Of Racist Comments

LINK: Will The Plan Work???

Photo via Pixabay

Photo via Pixabay

“Nigger” and other words I learned while playing Overwatch

LINK: “I think you’re taking this too seriously.”

Tackling Slavery in the Classroom With a Graphic Novel and an App

LINK: “Abina and the Important Men” has been adopted by some 300 colleges and universities

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When “X-Men: Apocalypse” fails its heroes of color, it fails the “X-Men” spirit

LINK: Slate’s Nico Lang dissects the hideous corpse of Simon Kinberg’s latest Super!Fail

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Daniel José Older and Progressive Science Fiction After Gamergate

LINK: A conversation with the novelist (and with his pals) about the power of diversity in sci-fi and speculative fiction.

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2016 Study Maps US Hate Speech Via Tweets

Recently, the nationwide rental start-up Adobo conducted a study of language Americans use when tweeting about different races, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations. Adobo posted about their findings on their website in a series called Tolerance in America.

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(ICYMI Fusion also features a more focused use of the info to single out hate speech in US Colleges)

‘Dear White People’ Is Becoming a Netflix Series So You Can Get More Woke

Check it out at Vulture.com.

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