- The ongoing conversation about race and Hollywood casting practices is one hell of a silver lining for this whole Scarlett Johansson/Tilda Swinton debacle:
- The New York Times looks into the myth that films featuring Asian actors won’t perform well.
- Vox put out a great video that traces whitewashing, both in past and current movies.
- Vulture looks at the discouraging trend of hiding black actors under piles of face paint and prosthetics in genre works, with a particular eye toward the careers of Idris Elba and Lupita Nyong’o.
- DEFINITELY go listen to this previously lost interview with Octavia Butler! [io9]
- This piece on IUDs, bodyhacking, and what we consider to be technology is fascinating. [Fusion]
- “Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their feelings.” [The New Statesman]
- Want a video essay that tracks film characters looking in mirrors, and the particularly gendered ways in which they break, or cry in front of, said mirrors? Here you go. [Fandor Keyframe]
- This comment thread (presumably from Tumblr) envisions an reversed spy movie that stars Helen Mirren, objectifies the shit out of the one young man on the team, and features many explosions and one-liners courtesy of Lucy Liu. Time well spent.
- I’m always really impressed with the amount of research Autostraddle is willing to conduct to give us in depth looks at the history of queer representation in television, and this complete history of trans women is no exception.
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