Sentences with phrase «about women and people of color»

The top ten domestic box office grosses of 2017 demonstrate, yet again, that audiences will show up for cool new stories told about women and people of color.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

Not exact matches

We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

We know you're very sorry about creating a culture that for decades has demeaned and excluded both women and people of color.

For a couple of decades we've been counting women and people of color without linking it to what the bottom line business rationale is for that, and the bottom line business rationale is about skills,» she says.

«Instead of sitting here and complaining about it,» meaning the lack of women and people of color in cryptocurrency, «I'm going to actually go and do something,» Demirors says.

There are many chefs deserving of profiles on bonappetit.com, and we have chosen to feature primarily women, many of them people of color, first and foremost because they're extremely talented people we think our readers need to know about.

My doula work is committed to supporting those who are traditionally left out of conversations about their rights and choices around reproductive justice — especially women of color, trans and queer - identified people.

Cuomo says the tipped wage system inhibits workers who earn tips from coming forward with concerns about exploitation and harassment, and it disproportionately affects women and people of color.

The New York City public financing system has only been fully funded since about 2010, but the effect has been far more women and people of color running for office, and far more incumbents getting challenged.

But when I learned Summers thought there might be a «genetic» explanation for a lack of scientific capability on the part of women and people of color (especially African - Americans), I began to think twice about whether Harvard is the place for me.

Women and people of color made up approximately half the big study pool; of the parent subsample, about 60 percent were women, and an equivalent percentage were people of cWomen and people of color made up approximately half the big study pool; of the parent subsample, about 60 percent were women, and an equivalent percentage were people of cwomen, and an equivalent percentage were people of color.

Our team of about 30 individuals had several people of color and several women, which was significant for my industry at the time, and a healthy mix of experience and youth.

She's also not afraid to call out large dating sites for their lack of concern about the online dating experiences of women, people of color, and other minorities, and she's most definitely not afraid to speak up about wanting to see changes now.

There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major categories at the Oscars but there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Feature category.

Also on this podcast you'll also hear Karina Longworth talking about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Slate culture writer Aisha Harris (host of the show Represent) on the importance of representation of women and people of color in Hollywood and film awards, actor Paul Scheer on some of the worst movies ever made (which he talks about on his own podcast that he co-hosts with his wife, actress June Diane Raphael, and their pal and fellow actor, Jason Mantzoukas.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

This is a question of point - of - view, and the fact is, films about and by women and people of color, regardless of quality, are still relegated to the back pages.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

As the film community starts to open its arms to people of color, gay people, and women, we will be here to tell you all about it.

Let's talk about the vast art trove we've lost by not giving women, people of color, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ + community opportunities — let's talk about that loss for all of us in art,» she continued.

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Black Panther has more women and black actors than any MCU movie and A Wrinkle in Time has an amazingly diverse cast, promising a shift in genres that have traditionally neglected people of color (a fact that's very frustrating, considering what a fruitful and powerful genre it is for talking about oppression).

Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler recently spoke at Vulture Festival LA about their highly - anticipated films as both are directing genre blockbusters that fans also anticipate being huge in advancing representation for women and people of color.

Creating more content for women and people of color is not only about equality; it also makes good business sense.

Multiple women came forward about each author to share sordid stories of sexual harassment, inappropriate remarks aimed at and in front of children, and racist remarks about fellow authors who happen to be people of color.

When female authors write under male pen names (or just use their gender ambiguous initials); when you call grown women girls; when you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whole.

There's a reason we're so enthusiastic about characters, developers, publishers, writers, and critics who are women, people of color, LGBTQIA, and of all different cultures and backgrounds being in or part of video games: because wider experiences broaden everyone's perspective.

«My colleagues (past and present) and I continually think about the relationship between the contemporary and historical parts of the museum's collection and exhibitions, and how they relate to the city of Baltimore,» said Kristen Hileman, the BMA's Senior Contemporary Curator since 2009, who curated Crosby's solo exhibition — a show planned years in advance of the museum's recent series of shows by women and people of color.

For us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Sackler Center by talking about what a lot of people perceive as a failure, feels really pertinent to the conversations going on now between women of color and white women.

Nothing about this is at all surprising from the candidate who put away the dog whistle years ago, bringing out into the open the contempt he has for women, people of color, Muslims, gays, decorum, facts, and science.

As Reg Davis of the ABA Journal pointed out in his article about the first TBD Law meeting (TBD1), there were «few women and people of color there.»

This site — and plenty of others — have a depressing amount of posts about the lack of diversity in the legal profession regarding both women and people of color.

We have implicit biases about women (and people of color, and LGBT people, and people with disabilities, and...) and their abilities and characteristics.

We hoped that by accepting invitations we would learn about lawyers we missed, especially women and people of color.

They were about solidarity — as women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, people of all religions and people of all incomes.

I'm shocked that in your multipage article about the movers and shakers in the industry (November 1997, page 23), there are no women or people of color.