Anybody who thinks impelling the government into the lives of the choices women make about their bodies is anything other than keeping women a second class citizens is diluting themselves. And my not so short lifetime, I have met women of different ages. The only ones I have met that are rapidly pro-life enough to want the government to dictate that people cannot have abortions are: men, women who have had children and are not in risk of an unwanted pregnancy, and women who have never been able to have children. The only reason middle cohort of women are rabidly pro-life are because they have duped by the religion that has been wrapped around this movement.

The truth is that Hollywood has always been fine casting black actors in films that take place in times and environs where it "doesn't make sense that they would be" and the cohort that is majorly offended by this has always been fine with these casting decisions in the past...

So long as the black people were carrying the palanquin or the treasure chest or fanning the empress or dying wordlessly in the gladiatorial game or otherwise toward the edges of the frame while the anachronistic white/ethnically ambiguous hero was front and center. This has been going on for decades now, complaint-free.

Hi everyone! I am a university student from the Netherlands, and I am currently researching viewers’ perceptions of characters from Sex Education for my bachelor thesis. My study explores how the portrayal of lgbtq+ characters and characters of color relates to different viewers' engagement with them. If you have watched the show, I would really appreciate if you could take some time to fill out this short 5-10 minute survey. This will not only help me graduate, but it will also contribute to the wider understanding of why diversity representation on TV is important. Thank you so much!!

Link to survey: https://erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ahizowKbmd3W1mK

Hello everyone!! Just found out about this amazing Kickstarter campaign, Pen Pals Forever: An Animated Pilot by Marie Lum!! It’s only got 3 DAYS to go and I’d hate to not see it make the mark, especially since it will be one of THE FIRST animated series that has disability representation in the main cast and crew! Please share whenever you can if if you have the capacity to donate and get cool rewards like an art book, help make this project a reality!

At the head of the creative team is Marie Lum and Kris Wimberly, two storyboard artists working in the animation industry based in Los Angeles, California, and Zione Hong, who is a Deaf animator.

This buddy comedy series, it all about building empathy and creativity through self-expression. It’s about celebrating people’s differences and being open to learning more about the world around you. And we need it now more than ever. Please consider supporting the project because I WISH I had a series like this when I was a kid.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/puccanoodles/pen-pals-forever-an-animated-pilot-by-marie-lum

Media Research | Diversity in Film

Hello everyone!

For my college media research course, I am conducting research on diversity in media. This for educational purposes and fully anonymous.

Demographic: Any and all are encouraged to complete the survey. Our team would like various types of people and background to complete the survey.

Hello, I am conducting a questionnaire regarding disability representation in TV/ film and its impacts for a school project. I would love to hear disabled peoples opinion’s however all responses are greatly appreciated. All responses are anonymous and will be used for research purposes only. Thankyou! Link: SAC Questionnaire: Disability Representation

Im planning on pitching a show about social struggels and how to avoid them. Originally I just wanted to make a show about not having friends, wich I had to experience from 5th grade up to now, but while developing the series, I thought it maybe wouldve been a good Idea to include struggles that I didnt experience. Im white, cis, completly able (atleast I didnt check), and while I am bi I have yet to publicly come out. When you first hear about a character who is black, homosexual and has autism, you probably will think of, without naming any names, the mcs best friend (Clyde) that a specific network (Nickelodeon) puts into their TV Shows (Loud House), and thats what my problem is. I think it seems forced. I think it says out that "if youre part of any minority you will never be happy", but I want to do the exact oppsite. I dont want kids to get tricked by the funny little white toddler on the screen, thinking that they could fix every issue with constantly being nice to anybody and never hitting back. I dont want them to feel frustrated and demotivated for the rest of their lives just because they didnt make friends in ,what I think, is the most important part of school in terms of making contacts. And yes I know this is a little dark for a show aimed to 2nd-10th graders, but thats the point. Children networks have been ignoring the struggles of life for so long, and it ends here.

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Also, because I know im gonna get asked, I am of course going to let people of all races, sexualitys, genders and backgrounds look at the script.

Realizing full well that diversity and inclusion are everything, I'd love to float this flyer and this site for any interested parties, especially for non-white folks.

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I first want to say, I myself am a practicing pagan/witch, and I love writing and I love mythologies. so I decided to write a thriller/mystery book revolving around the goddess Melinoe.

the other night, when I was thinking of my book, an image of a strong-willed, confident, dont-f@ck-with-me female character came to mind, who was also Muslim (her religion plays a positive role in her life). but I came to the dilemma of accurately representing a Muslim woman in a world where other gods exist, thus contradicting her beliefs.
all gods exist in my book. pagan, Christian, Jewish, Islamic- if my gods exists, so does everyone else's. while I was researching it, I remembered the issues people had with Rick Riordan's character, Sam, which makes a lot of sense! but I love this character I've started to create, and I would love to have her in my book, but I want to accurately portray her. what I've come up with so far, is she's aware other deities exist, but they're more 'spirits' than deities in her personal belief, while Allah is the one true God.
in our world, people have different beliefs. my personal deity belief differs from a Christian or Muslim- but that's okay! it doesn't make one of ours better or more true. and that's my mindset with the idea of this book: all gods are real, and how people with different beliefs interpret them is all valid. The existence of gods aren't black and white, they change, and that's the truth. doesn't make one more right than the other. but I want to get Muslim and Arab people's opinions on this. if I have to scrap this character and save her for a different series, I will. but if people, who are willing to tell me, tell me that this could work- then I want to move forward because I love this character already. I want to contribute to the positive representation of different and all different types of people.

I first want to say, I myself am a practicing pagan/witch, and I love writing and I love mythologies. so I decided to write a thriller/mystery book revolving around the goddess Melinoe.

the other night, when I was thinking of my book, an image of a strong-willed, confident, dont-f@ck-with-me female character came to mind, who was also Muslim (her religion plays a positive role in her life). but I came to the dilemma of accurately representing a Muslim woman in a world where other gods exist, thus contradicting her beliefs.
all gods exist in my book. pagan, Christian, Jewish, Islamic- if my gods exists, so does everyone else's. while I was researching it, I remembered the issues people had with Rick Riordan's character, Sam, which makes a lot of sense! but I love this character I've started to create, and I would love to have her in my book, but I want to accurately portray her. what I've come up with so far, is she's aware other deities exist, but they're more 'spirits' than deities in her personal belief, while Allah is the one true God.
in our world, people have different beliefs. my personal deity belief differs from a Christian or Muslim- but that's okay! it doesn't make one of ours better or more true. and that's my mindset with the idea of this book: all gods are real, and how people with different beliefs interpret them is all valid. The existence of gods aren't black and white, they change, and that's the truth. doesn't make one more right than the other. but I want to get Muslim and Arab people's opinions on this. if I have to scrap this character and save her for a different series, I will. but if people, who are willing to tell me, tell me that this could work- then I want to move forward because I love this character already. I want to contribute to the positive representation of different and all different types of people.

Basically my mom, sister and I were talking about misrepresentation and I mentioned the film about Ann boylen and how they made her darkskin and how it’s kind of the result of white people giving black people handouts just so we(mixed ppl included) would shut up about representation. My mom said that she was black and Marie Antoinette was also black…I disagreed and she told me not to become a colorist. I prefer historical figures to be portrayed accurately….not to deny that there weren’t any mixed black royals in Europe but I don’t think they were black though.

Hello,

I am a year 12 student currently conducting research for my Personal Investigation Project (PIP) major work. This questionnaire only takes a few minutes to complete and its 100% anonymous. It aims to divulge the nature of representations of people with disability in film, and the influence of such, on social attitudes and progress.

Thank you so much for taking your time to participate, your contribution is highly appreciated!

Link:

https://forms.gle/p2quxfC5aSHtRuE8A

I teach 7th and 8th grade reading courses at a school in the Bronx and we are trying to rise $315 to add books with diverse heroes to our class library!

This project can be seen as a response to two glaring truths. The first is that, as a result of the COVID-19 and pre-existing inequality within the education system, immense quantities our scholars are reading below grade level. The second is that research in education has repeatedly shown that scholars are more likely to comprehend and engage with texts that are culturally relevant to their lives.

In order to promote literacy, we are seeking to acquire a number of texts that feature heroes that represent the communities of our students. Too often, students lack access to texts that have role models they can relate to, and nowhere is this more true than in public education, which often features literary classics that, due to their dated status, often lack people of color as central characters with agency. For this reason, the texts selected all feature protagonists that represent my students' communities. By helping to donate to this campaign, you will be allowing young men of color in the Bronx to envision worlds in which they too can be the hero.

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/representation-and-heroes-culturally-re/6258568/

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