#Représentation

Wale Lawal

WalleLawal

Will only add that as much as civic education should be accessible, let’s just be careful not to encourage spoonfeeding people knowledge. People have to want change. Which means they

Queen Dumb ᵇˡᵐ FUCK LILITH

WhatTheFridge69

I'm abouta make a very controversial statement: we need more negative wlw representatiation (specifically lesbians, I'll go over this later)https://twitter.com/WhatTheFridge69/status/1281450828281384960 Picture this, you are a girl,

Megan Radler

Megan_R_Radler

Drexel Bio grad students are being asked to help with virtual interviews for finalists for our department head. We had 17 candidates. The final 4 are ALL. WHITE. MEN. /thread

uché blackstock, md

uche_blackstock

I’ve been mulling this over so here goes. Last week, @elemental came out with a list of 50 pandemic experts to trust. I was on that list, as well as

Plo Landino

Plo__Kool

Everything in Star Wars is an exaggeration. The conflict is an exaggerated representation of good & evil. The inner conflict of the characters is an exaggeration of the struggles we

acab|blm|☪️|🏳️‍🌈|⚧ امنه خان

jaythenerdkid

this is probably a terrible take and I'm about to be kicked off the internet, but: I'm happy when I see LGBT representation for kids, but it doesn't feel like

sha !!

fltrneo

yall are the same people who say “more asian representation in the music industry!” but then when it’s a kpop group apart from bts suddenly that group isn’t allowed to

Jenevieve Frank, The Comic Sans of People

EmpressOfRobots

Transformers is actually the exact place we need good LGBTQIA+ representation *BECAUSE* it's a multi-generational toy and media platform that is aimed at children. Gay Kids EXIST. Trans Kids EXIST.

vic🎃♦️@hokkeween

tsumuhokke

I want to say this for no apparent reason but: not everything is about representation, some ppl want to get into stories bc of the emotions they make them feel,

Dave Rich

daverich1

The leaked #LabourReport has this paragraph about the different factions in the party, including "John McDonnell's Labour Representation Committee". So what has John McDonnell's Labour Representation Committee had to say

Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

In conversations about representation when someone says "There aren't that many Black people in the US so why should they be in everything?" is how much of American history includes

caroline ミ☆

onlytakesataste

i really am so sad about legacies. it feels so dumb to be upset about a tv show but i really thought that we would actually get some good representation

Eileen Chong 张奕霖

eileenchongpoet

Writers, readers, lit fam: I know many feel voiceless in the face of power wielded by lit orgs, lit mags, funding bodies. What if we reframed ‘power’ to ‘responsibility’? These

Dr. Ellie Lockhart, When All The Nerds Died

BootlegGirl

So I just saw a take on the situation with Hong Kong and the Mulan film. I'm not going to weigh in on either thing, because the thread made an

The Most

Most

As we reckon with the lack of LGBTQ representation in media, it brings me great pleasure to inform you that Gentefied basically OPENS with a depiction of two queer women

David French

DavidAFrench

Theory: After experiencing toxic right-wing and left-wing political correctness, I'm convinced they're photo negatives of each other.Right: Performative ferocity followed by snowflakery.Left: Performative snowflakery followed by ferocity. /1