“Officially launched on August 1 by Netflix as a celebration of inclusive media and Netflix’s own diverse programming, the hashtag was intended to start a conversation about the first time that people saw themselves represented on television.”
Read: What the #FirstTimeISawMe hashtag reveals about representation in media
“Officially launched on August 1 by Netflix as a celebration of inclusive media and Netflix’s own diverse programming, the hashtag was intended to start a conversation about the first time that people saw themselves represented on television.”
Read: What the #FirstTimeISawMe hashtag reveals about representation in media
“Officially launched on August 1 by Netflix as a celebration of inclusive media and Netflix’s own diverse programming, the hashtag was intended to start a conversation about the first time that people saw themselves represented on television.”
Read: What the #FirstTimeISawMe hashtag reveals about representation in media
“Officially launched on August 1 by Netflix as a celebration of inclusive media and Netflix’s own diverse programming, the hashtag was intended to start a conversation about the first time that people saw themselves represented on television.”
Read: What the #FirstTimeISawMe hashtag reveals about representation in media
“Officially launched on August 1 by Netflix as a celebration of inclusive media and Netflix’s own diverse programming, the hashtag was intended to start a conversation about the first time that people saw themselves represented on television.”
Read: What the #FirstTimeISawMe hashtag reveals about representation in media
“On TV at large, 1 out of every 5 creator credits goes to a woman; on Adult Swim, it’s 1 out of every 34. Former employees recall their experiences at the network to BuzzFeed News.”
“Next week, 2K Games and Hangar 13 are set to release Mafia III, an open-world action game set in a fictionalized version of 1968 New Orleans called New Bordeaux. It follows Lincoln Clay, a biracial Vietnam veteran who was betrayed by the Italian Mafia, and now seeks revenge.”
Read: How ‘Mafia III’ Intends to Make Players Confront Racism
“Todd W. Schneider, a developer at Genius, took a deep dive into Simpsons data using scripts pulled from Simpsons World. From there, he wrote code that organizes dialogue by character and then ranks each character by number of words spoken.”
“If you finish watching a movie and let the ending credits scroll for a while, you’ll come across the actors who are merely identified as descriptors — “bridesmaid #1,” “man in donkey suit,” or “hot dog vendor.”
Read: Male film actors get jobs like “doctor” and “cop.” Women get “receptionist” and “party girl.”
“Serena Williams, who’s widely considered the greatest woman tennis player ever, has made history again: Monday, she defeated Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova in the fourth round of the US Open, giving her more Grand Slam victories (308) than any other tennis player.”
Read: Serena Williams is constantly the target of disgusting racist and sexist attacks