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“Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor” started out as a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement— but in attempts to spread awareness, her death has been co-opted by meme culture, dehumanizing Taylor into a symbol of performative allyship. Breonna Taylor, a 26 year-old Black woman and emergency room technician, was sleeping on
Almost every Asian-American is familiar with the slant-eye gesture: a person places their fingers on the edges of their eyes and squints in an attempt to mimic the stereotypically Asian facial feature of slanted almond eyes. It’s a universally recognized symbol of hatred and xenophobia. From yellowface in Hollywood to World Cup fans utilizing
The Help is, at surface level, a heartwarming tale of racial reconciliation. Viewers rejoice in how the 2011 film fuses more serious conversations about segregation and civil rights with hints of sassy humor and Southern romance. In our current socio-political climate— as thousands protest against police brutality and, in a broader context, systemic racism —
Like Jesus, Santa Claus and ancient Egyptians, there are many historical figures and fictional characters that an insistent, needlessly-angry demographic of white people claim must be played by white actors. In the past, all hell has broken loose when a few brave souls try to claim otherwise. Now it’s 2019, and not a single thing
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers from all ten seasons of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. A week ago Netflix announced that it would not be running all ten seasons of F.R.I.E.N.D.S on its platform. Fury sparked across the world which resulted in Netflix investing a 100M dollar contract to have it playing throughout the course of 2019. So
This week, Dolce & Gabbana’s high-profile runway show in Shanghai was cancelled due to a racist marketing campaign they released on Instagram and popular Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. The hashtag #BoycottDolce has been trending, and the Weibo hashtag #DGTheGreatShowCancelled has been read 540 million times and mentioned in 74,000 discussions. The videos themselves depict a Chinese
Celebrity Courtney Act is not only a popular drag queen, entertainer, singer and reality television personality but also a huge activist for the LGBTQ+ community. Born in Australia in 1983, Shane Jenek initially called his blonde alter ego Ginger Le’Bon. Courtney Act soon blossomed into his stage name, a pun on the saying “caught in
Kelly Marie Tran’s role as Rose Tico in Star Wars, Constance Wu’s debut in Crazy Rich Asians and Lana Condor in To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before are all incredible examples of powerful, relatable and beautiful Asian women cast in leading roles. With the collective and widespread success of these movies, the question we
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