Tag: women of color

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‘Annihilation’ Director Alex Garland Responds to Whitewashing Claims

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LINK: Addressing the controversy of defaulting on white actresses

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@AzaComics Creates World Where Women Of Color Are Superheroes

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LINK: Creator Jazmin Truesdale grew up reading comic books…

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Afrofuturist Artists Craft A Virtual World For Women Of Color

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Check it out at The Huffington Post.

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For Women of Color, the Price of Fandom Can Be Too High

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LINK: Geek community backlash can be severe

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.@melodyMcooper puts a spotlight on women of color in the science fiction genre

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LINK: Director Melody Cooper was chosen for the Meryl Streep funded program, The Writer’s Lab

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Panels: It’s Time For More Women of Color In Comic Book Movies

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LINK: Fans are thirsty for representation in comics and related media

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#ILookLikeAnEngineer is a Big, Brave Challenge to Tech Industry Stereotypes

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Read at GOOD.

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A great example? Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham, right, is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist.
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Twitter’s Women Of Color Movement For Casting “Looking For Alaska”

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No Whitewashing Here. A Chat With Chipo Chung, AD: The Bible Continues’ Mary Magdalene

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Click here to read at Jezebel.com.

This Chinese-Zimbabwean actress has appeared on Doctor Who and Sherlock, and is excited to be playing Mary Magdalene, who some call the 13th Apostle….

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African actress Chipo Chung as Mary Magdalene in “A.D.: The Bible Continues”

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Joshunda Sanders’s Work Will Be In ‘All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color’

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Read at joshunda.com.

Once published, this collection of short stories by POC women will be sitting on a bookshelf much like this one. Only after being devoured, of course.

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