#Représentation

Nqaba Matshazi

nqabamatshazi

Quick thread. In media and a communication studies, there’s something called confirmation bias. The media in the west and developed countries look for the lowest factor and amplify it as

Cody @ 🏡🌈

CodySDax

THREAD: 1/ I’ve seen multiple people saying “what about Outcast” or something to that effect, making out that Trek has actually competently dealt with and explored queer characters/issues in the

Kimestry👽

90svibin

The hashtag and slogan All Lives Matter is a declaration of color blindnessIt erases a long past and present of systemic inequality in the US. Its a representation of the

hans / peter

hpheisler

Captain's Log; 4/10/2020 - 2:43 AMI am a twenty three year old homosexual man and I have not watched a single episode of Glee (2009-2015). I feel like experience with

G.

poshdoll4

You see, I do like that we are getting more and more representation for LGBTQIA+ community in wide media in the last 20 years; it was in fact a problem

Dfhappy

dfhappy

Interesting man; John Locke (1632–1704) Long before Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America, there was the more fundamental Social Contract of John Locke, an English philosopher and physician who was one

bisexuals are valid ♡

bipositivity

to everyone who is shouting at me for not putting someone that they've requested onto the thread of bi characters, i have some things to say.1. i have to fact

Dr. Bates, Mask Wearer

BatesPhysio

I am thinking a lot this morning about that prof who tweeted about working 100 hours per week and got her tweeter handed to her for “normalizing unrealistic expectations.” Thinking

Vivian Wulf

MxVivianWulf

I got into twitch because we were doing great shit. We raised hundreds of thousands in 2019-2020 for various causes, trans lifeline, the wet'suwet'en struggle, the Trevor project. I thought

César A. Hidalgo

cesifoti

Map Time!So you’ve seen a lot of maps in the last few days. What maps work, which ones don’t, and how to think about them? Time for a thread !

Taylor Popielarz

TaylorPopielarz

#OHSen NE Ohio Rep. @TimRyan entered the Buckeye State's 2022 U.S. Senate race yesterday, becoming the first Democrat to join.We spoke shortly after he launched his campaign.Here's a thread of

anastasia 🥀

ladyzenik

#shadowandbone let’s talk about nina.yes, danielle was incredible — i saw so much of nina’s personality in her and her chemistry w cal was lovely. yet at the same

Keith Powers

KeithPowersNYC

Even as New York City has made progress, there’s more work to do to end the inhumane practice of solitary confinement.Thank you to @Jan_Ransom for a well-written piece on solitary

Kara Schlegl

karaschlegl

Can't focus on anything today because I'm thinking about how characters who are Autistic are used by neurotypical filmmakers as avatars to step into imagined realities that reduce the experience

Wizard in a tracksuit

Kevinmorosky

For #ChadwickBoseman I envisioned? No, expected to meet him and say“We went to see Black panther and left the cinema talking about building Wakanada - and we did - it’s

Brad Wyble

bradpwyble

I'm rebooting this discussion on embodied cognition (as an outsider to the field) as a new thread. I've learned quite a lot reading this thread and thinking about the issues