| TV, contributors, Gina Torres, Suits By Tai Gooden on Thu,12:00 TV is getting better at bringing brilliantly nuanced, refreshingly real, and bring diverse depictions of Black women to life, but Suits character Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) is often left out of this conversation. She's been a TV mainstay since 2011, but her impactful character doesn’t garner enough praise. Read More > TV, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Wayward Sisters By Kaila Hale-Stern on Thu,11:40 Fans of Supernatural were disappointed when the CW network passed on greenlighting Wayward Sisters, a long-in-the-works spinoff of the Winchesterian world. Now we know why. Read More > Gaming, Microsoft, video games, Xbox By Dan Van Winkle on Thu,10:15 Gamers who have been at their hobby for a long time might not find game controllers, even in all the weird evolutions they've gone through—looking at you, N64 controller—to be difficult to use, but we've all seen someone struggle with them at one point or another. They're fairly complex input devices, which can make them difficult to use for players with physical disabilities. Microsoft's new Xbox Adaptive Controller has addressed that problem in a rather ingenious way. Read More > Big on the Internet, TV, Netflix, Tina Fey, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt By Princess Weekes on Thu,8:25 Season 4 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt streams May 30th on Netflix. Read More > News, racial discrimination, racism, Yale University By Vivian Kane on Wed,6:19 Recently, Yale University has been at the center of our ongoing national conversation about racism and discrimination, after a white student called the police on a black student for napping in their dorm common room. So far, Yale has failed to address the incident in any meaningful way. Now, though, the Department of Education wants us to know that they're taking issues of seriously and launching an investigation into potential systematic discrimination ... against white students. Read More > Big on the Internet, cosplay, gender equality, Star Wars (franchise) By Teresa Jusino on Wed,6:11 If you follow the Internet's favorite uncle, Mark Hamill, on Twitter, you may have noticed the above tweet, featuring actors America Young and Dove Meir cosplaying as "Hana Solo" and "Slave Leo." The two Star Wars fans recently discussed the reasoning behind their pretty epic photo shoot. Read More > Movies, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Ryan Reynolds By Kaila Hale-Stern on Wed,6:01 After a stretch of super serious superhero movies, Deadpool 2 is here to make you laugh and forget about half the galaxy turning into piles of dust. Read More > News, Latinx, Spanish, xenophobia By Teresa Jusino on Wed,5:20 Imagine how terrible your life must be if the very sound of another language is enough to send you into a hissyfit. Read More > Books, Book Review, menstruation, Period: Twelve Voices Tell The Bloody Truth By Princess Weekes on Wed,5:14 In a collection of personal essays, the book Period: Twelve Voices Tell The Bloody Truth highlights several different experiences with that time of the month so many of us share. It includes narratives from intersex, trans man, and disabled perspectives that really helped me, as a cis woman, understand the wider reality of what menstruation can represent. Read More > TV, Alfred Pennyworth, Epix, Gotham By Chelsea Steiner on Wed,5:12 Epix has picked up a ten episode order for Pennyworth from Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller. The series centers on a young Alfred Pennyworth and his adventures as a former British SAS soldier who forms a secret company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne in 1960's London. The series will take place before Alfred becomes Batman's butler, guardian, and confidante. Read More > Technology, net neutrality, Senate By Dan Van Winkle on Wed,5:07 The story around "net neutrality" has probably already given you more than your fair share of whiplash at this point. It's alive! It's dead. But not yet! But more than likely soon. But not there's one more step! After which it will probably be dead. But—! You get the point. Well, get ready for another round. Read More > Big on the Internet, Nicole Arbour, racism By Teresa Jusino on Wed,4:25 The more ignorance Nicole Arbour spews, whether in her "comedy" or as herself, the more I have to believe that she's some kind of Andy Kaufman/Tony Clifton construction of a personality. Somewhere out there, there's a real Nicole who's examining society by putting this troll of a character out into the world, Stephen Colbert-style. That's the explanation, right? Right? Read More > Big on the Internet, Cannes Film Festival, dress codes, Kristen Stewart By Kaila Hale-Stern on Wed,2:19 Kristen Stewart was headed to the premiere of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman when she did something unprecedented for a movie star at the fancy French film festival. Read More > Books, If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say, Leila Sales, young adult fiction By Princess Weekes on Wed,1:58 Winter Halperin, after coming in second-place at a spelling bee, posts this on her social media: "We learned many surprising things today. Like that dehnstufe is apparently a word, and that a black kid can actually win the Spelling Bee." What follows is an internet storm she is no way prepared for. Read More > AMP Featured, Movies, Avengers: Infinity War, contributors, Marvel Entertainment By Veronica Walsingham on Wed,1:52 Avengers: Infinity War is a film up to its eyeballs in superheroes. In fact, there are superheroes of almost every variety: the technologically advanced, the genetically modified, the masters of magic, and even a god or two. That said, one can’t really be angry that Mantis didn’t have many lines of dialogue. Though, one can certainly be disappointed with what she said in those limited lines. Read More > Movies, Cannes Film Festival, misogyny, sexual misconduct By Vivian Kane on Wed,1:51 Back in 2011, director Lars von Trier made some comments during a Cannes press conference about being a Nazi and sympathizing with Hitler. The festival immediately banned him. Now, seven years later (and only seven months after Bjork accused von Trier of sexual harassment) the festival has apparently forgiven the director and allowed him to screen his new film, The House That Jack Built. Turns out that screening didn't go too well, though. Read More > Technology, Insects, killer robots, robot apocalypse By Chelsea Steiner on Wed,1:50 Humanity continues to barrel head-first into the robot apocalypse, with no signs of slowing down. This week, scientists at the University of Washington debuted the RoboFly, the first wireless insect-sized flying robot. RoboFly is slightly heavier than a toothpick and is powered by an invisible laser beam, which is then converted to laser energy via a tiny onboard circuit. Read More > |
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