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Gringo Highlights Hollywood’s Historically Rough Relationship With Mexico

Gringo Highlights Hollywood’s Historically Rough Relationship With Mexico

With the recently released Gringo, Hollywood continues to reinforce harmful stereotypes about Mexico. While there is no question that Mexico has a drug cartel problem, Hollywood’s continued fixation on Mexico’s relationship with drugs seems, at this point, to rely on a complete refusal to acknowledge […]

Lucasfilm Continues to Have a White Male Problem

Lucasfilm Continues to Have a White Male Problem

Star Wars has a problem. And I don’t mean it’s propensity to cast white, British brunettes as their leads; not this time, at least. I’m talking about the problem they have behind the camera. In a 2016 interview with Variety, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy said […]

Predominately White TV Writers Rooms: You Are Profoundly Ill-Equipped to “Tackle Black Lives Matter.”

Predominately White TV Writers Rooms: You Are Profoundly Ill-Equipped to “Tackle Black Lives Matter.”

2016 was the year that I rage quit Orange is the New Black and Unreal. It was a difficult break. I had reserved special corners of my heart for both dramas, and to lose them within such a short span left vacancies that echoed every […]