The Women's Media Center has released an update to its annual State of the Media report; its findings are (as always) pretty grim. This year: out of 27,000 pieces of content — a category that includes "TV networks, newspapers, news wires, and online news sites" — reviewed for the study, 63.4 contributors were male. Ugh.
George Takei announced that he is hosting an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live (no date confirmed yet). And in his own diplomatic words about SNL's diversity problem: "It will mark only the third time someone of Asian descent has been invited to host SNL...That has left a rather awkward void in representation that …
Well, this is unsettling. According to this year's data, not a single female student, black student, or Latino student took the AP computer science exam in either Montana or Mississippi. That means it was pretty much just all white dudes. Not exactly a heartening indicator of all that "diversity in tech" that tech…
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Presented without comment (but not without a little bit of heartbreak). (Oh, there's apparently one woman on staff; she was just cut out of the picture.)
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We're now in year six of sunny post-racial America, and things are going great, right!?! We have a biracial president, and, uh...Halle Berry won an Oscar that time...and...a vocal contingent of Americans will eagerly whip themselves into a racist frenzy over a kid having a white mom and a black dad in a fucking…
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Last year—riffing on a hand-wringy Wall Street Journal article about the thematic "darkness" of YA books—blogger Kate Hart created a "YA Cover Color Wheel," sorting the top titles of 2010 by their literal colors. Then she dug into some more pointed analysis of "where YA covers are most definitely NOT dark: Race/ethnicity."…
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As Meghan McCain writes, "to be a powerful woman in politics is to be controversial."
