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Warning: Sense8 spoilers ahead! It’s not every day you find a brown woman portrayed with actual nuance on mainstream television. This is part of a representation problem encountered by almost every ethnic/marginalised minority on-screen – a problem steeped in incompleteness, narrowness and stereotypes. But the recently-cancelled (alas!) Netflix show Sense8, a series that has been
Late last year, Wonder Woman was confirmed to be bisexual by Wonder Woman comic writer Greg Rucka. In an interview with Comicosity, he stated that yes, Diana “has been in love and had relationships with other women,” and she also has romantic interactions with Steve Trevor. When the news broke that Diana was finally confirmed to
Spoken word is a word-based performance art that focuses on voice inflection along with diction. Recently, there has been a large push for spoken word poetry with YouTube channels like Button Poetry and a plethora of other recorded performances. Due to the fact the audience can hear the emotion in the presenter’s voice, spoken word is extremely
Hollywood, over the past decade, has become more and more diverse by creating movies which are fixated on a majority ethnic minority cast, including but not limited to “Moonlight” and “Hidden Figures“. Hollywood and many other mainstream Television networks are more often casting Hispanic, Black and Latinx actors to play lead roles in their projects, which is,
When I read about someone doing a Death Note live action remake last year, I was afraid. I never had much confidence in remakes of my favorite animes and cartoons, especially after the disaster that was the Last Airbender. As I was reading the article, I was confused when I read that Light Yagami (now
