All posts tagged "entertainment"
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Why Roland Martin's Homophobic Tweets Shouldn't Be Ignored, Even Now
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, & Kenyon Farrow Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves...
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Super Spectacle: Race, Gender, and the Hawking of Products
The Super Bowl is a spectacle. Whether talking about the pregame festivities, the hype, the halftime show, or the game itself, it is the embodiment...
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"Truth to Power:"? No Truth or Empowerment in Jason Whitlock's Tweet
By the Collective (see below) The Feminist Wire | New Black Man We come together to express our collective disappointment over Jason Whitlock’s recent tweet about Jeremy Lin. ...
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The Hunger Games
By Monica J. Casper and Mason Casper-Milam On March 23, 2012, The Hunger Games comes to cinematic life in the U.S.; the trailer promises much...
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Thinking Outside the Blockbuster: Women of Color Make Films for Real Women
By Melissa Robertson For many American filmgoers it might sound unbelievable that only about 6% of all fiction filmmakers are women. However, to both professional...
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A Fly Girl: Black Sexual Politics and Beyoncé
By David J. Leonard and Kristal Moore Clemons A newly discovered horse fly by Australian scientist Bryan Lessard has become global media fodder. While usually not a...
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Lose like a Man: Who is Really Losing in the new Weight Watchers Campaign?
By David J. Leonard It seems that Charles Barkley is everywhere and that isn’t just because there are basketball games on each and every day...
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Who is Killing Us
By Terrion L. Williamson On April 1, 1979, 1,500 people gathered in the streets of Boston to memorialize the lives of six black women who...
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Why Jay-Z’s “Glory” Dedication to Blue Ivy Made this Black Man Cry
By Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. I was prepared to be scared for HOW hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and pop Diva Beyoncé would introduce their daughter, Blue Ivy,...
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Black Queer Gender and Pariah’s “Grand Swagger”
Three white women crowd the ticket window. “What is Pariah?” one asks, flustered. The ticket vender stammers. “It’s, uh, kind of a slice-of-life among kids...
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Why I Might Watch Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse
While Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, a televisual extension of Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too, runs against...
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Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondent, feminist satirist and media critic Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of...
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Holiday Films: Does This Year's Crop Misrepresent Women?
By Soraya Chemaly The Holiday movie season is here! And, true to form, as revealed in USC’s Annenberg School’s most recent study of gender in the 100...
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The Girls in The Band
The Girls in The Band, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin, Michael Greene, and Nancy Kissock, and edited by Edward Osei-Gyimah, literally screens in the...
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Un-Settling Fatness: Obesity Goes Pop-Genre Big
I expected to love Chelsea Settles. I expected to hate Chelsea Settles. On both counts, I was wrong. MTV’s newest (semi)reality protagonist— spun, as the...
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Help for "The Help"
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D. Within twenty-four hours, friends sent three critical reviews of “The Help,” a film that is garnering high praise, boosting sales...
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From the Editors on "The Help"
We have been overwhelmed and overjoyed by our readers’ response to Duchess Harris’s article on the novel, The Help. We deeply appreciate the unprecedented number...
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Second (and Third, and Fourth…) Helpings: A Big Black Woman’s Thoughts on "The Help"
By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Until more recently than I’d like to admit, I constructed my identity in direct opposition to the image of the Mammy....