Louisiana native Rubia Garcia has gained thousands of followers through social media for her commentary regarding the importance of education, racial justice and equality of opportunity. But this isn’t the only reason she has received so much recognition worldwide. The teacher’s passionate plea to make the lives of others better, only fuels her fight for
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
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
