Posts tagged: Entertainment
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3 Feminist TV Shows You Need to Watch in 2016
Feb 02, 2016
/ Hanna Foster
/ Our Folks
Let me just preface this by saying, I really love feminist media, but there is no real way to define what is and what isn’t considered feminist. I recognize that it’s subjective, but for the sake of this piece, I’m defining feminist media as shows with diversity, strong female characters (generally protagonists), and views about …
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Transphobia in Hollywood: Trans Stories Without Trans Actors
Sep 08, 2015
/ Hanna Foster
/ Our Folks
With the upcoming debut of the new movie About Ray where another non-trans actor, in this case Elle Fanning, plays a trans character, I believe it is relevant to discuss trans exclusion in Hollywood. We see this time and time again, cisgender actors being hired to play trans characters. Buzzfeed has an article citing 21 different instances of …
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