Despite a year of reckoning and rabble-rousing in Hollywood, the Academy Award nominees this year are disappointingly familiar.
Month: February 2019
Calling Out the Caregiving Crisis in the U.S.
Three-quarters of U.S. workers face some kind of caregiving responsibility; 32 percent of them left a job because they couldn’t balance work and family duties, and more than 80 percent said their responsibilities at home kept them from doing their best at work.
Tuning in to the World in Full Color
When he made history in 2018 with his Academy Award win for Get Out, Jordan Peele described the work of his peers at this moment in our culture as a renaissance. But my mission is to create a world where sharing the diversity of our experiences is less of a moment and more of a permanent expectation of inclusion—so the work isn’t done.
“Brujos” Brings Latinx Magic Back to the Witch Stories Stealing Our Screen Time
The magic-wielding academic queers are at it again in season three of Brujos—and this time, they’re incorporating even more witchy content about sexually non-conforming people of color.
XPO is Shutting Down Their Memphis Facility in the Wake of Sex Discrimination Protests
“My co-workers and I stood up and exposed the terrible conditions at the XPO-Verizon facility in Memphis, including sexual harassment, dangerous heat, pregnancy discrimination and worker abuses. In return, XPO and Verizon are shutting down our facility and cutting our jobs.”
Paycheck Fairness is Long Overdue
I was paid substantially less for doing the same job as a male counterpart for two years—and I found out because the person who was earning more than me was my partner.
Rewriting the Score: Advancing Women’s Representation in Classical Music
Among the many aspects of contemporary life and culture in which women’s representation is edging toward equity, the field of classical music is making progress. There is ample opportunity for this progress—given that classical music has been built on centuries of works composed, performed and curated by men.
Today in Feminist History: Seven Consecutive Days of Hiking Hasn’t Stopped the Suffragist Army of the Hudson from Speaking Up
February 19, 1913: After seven consecutive days of walking, and approximately 116 of the 225 miles from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C. behind them, the suffrage hikers in General Rosalie Jones’ Army of the Hudson are spending today in Wilmington, Delaware—”getting new feet,” as they put it. But while the morning may have been spent applying much of the city’s available supply of liniment to sore feet, the hikers’ voices were not given any pampered treatment during the day’s stopover.
Solidarity on Screen: What “Roma” Means to Domestic Workers Worldwide
Actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira joined National Domestic Workers Alliance Gender Justice Campaigns Director Monica Ramirez and award-winning producer Nely Galan to talk about the impact of “Roma”—and center Latinas in the narrative.
The U.S. Legal System is Failing FGM Survivors
Half a million. That is how many women and girls across the U.S. are currently at risk of or have been subjected to female genital mutilation. It’s a number that surprises many—and so should the fact that just 28 states have enacted laws to protect women and girls against it.