#racial-representation

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Television
fromVulture
1 week ago

Talamasca: The Secret Order: Hookups and Horrors

A Wilderness of Mirrors focuses the series into a spy-thriller, emphasizes Guy's dimness, and features rushed training alongside a violent, racially troubling death.
Marketing
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

It's the noblest battle of our new free-speech age: Sarah Pochin's anti-woke couch crusade | Marina Hyde

Anger over non-white representation in sofa adverts is trivial compared with looming political and global economic crises and misplaced public-priority focus.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 days ago

Love And Deepspace Addresses 'Invisible' Dark-Skinned Characters

Love and Deepspace's cutscenes render dark-skinned custom characters nearly invisible due to lighting that isn't optimized for darker skin tones.
fromIntelligencer
2 weeks ago

Supreme Court Voting-Rights Ruling Could Blow Up Midterms

If mapmakers in those states are no longer required under Section 2 [of the VRA] to draw districts where racial minority voters have a realistic opportunity of electing their preferred candidate, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina and Texas could end up with fewer Democratic representatives in Congress. Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee could lose all of theirs, the report finds.
US politics
Media industry
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Pregnant women and pensioners massively underrepresented in TV adverts

Pensioners, pregnant women and disabled people are markedly under-represented in UK TV advertising despite their population shares, while Black people are notably over-represented.
fromJezebel
1 month ago

'We Love You, Bunny' Is Stranger and More Ambitious Than 'Bunny'

Protagonist Sam has extricated herself from the clutches of the rest of her MFA cohort, a group of women who transform rabbits into desirable men, setting the stage for this not-quite-a-sequel sequel. Told in part from the point of view of Sam's nemeses, the Bunnies, We Love You, Bunny also includes the point of view of Aerius, the first bunny they transformed into a man, who is hell bent on escaping the Bunnies' clutches.
Books
fromESPN.com
3 months ago

Remembering Arthur Ashe's historic 1975 Wimbledon title

Arthur Ashe became the first and only Black man to win the Wimbledon singles title, defeating defending champion Jimmy Connors in an iconic final.
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