A Winding Road...

My Tumblr dash is what inspired me to reevaluate my entertainment choices. Specifically pictures of Emma Stone.

Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, and Emma Stone have been the most prominent actresses on my dash this year. After July 20th I’m sure Anne Hathaway will be added to the list. That’s fine. I admire all these women; they’re smart, talented and beautiful. But I found myself sighing, “Gosh I wish they weren’t all… white.”

My first instinct was to try to think of who I’d want to see on my dash instead. I was stumped. Who are the contemporary young actresses of color these days? I’m SURE they’re out there, but for people like me who only watch summer blockbusters and only know the names of the those in leading roles, they might as well not exist. 

Now imagine if I were 14 years old and there wasn’t one actress of color on my radar. Imagine that every gif set I came across on Tumblr that was tagged “OMG she’s so amazing! I wanna be her friend!” was of a white woman. How could I not internalize that? How could I believe that people who look like me are also admirable?

Edit to add: Zoe Saldana! I’d love to see her in more movies. :)

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Discovered this video from reading Jen Wang’s article on Disgrasian:  DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Vagina Whitening (That’s Right, You Heard Me)  (You might remember Jen  from Racebending’s WonderCon panel last month!)

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Best part of the whole con

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Brb, this is too beautiful.

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AUGH yes they were amazing!! it was an entire family of avatar cosplayers and AUGH they were all so quality

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Stunning.

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Senegal’s Magatte Wade, a self-described serial entrepreneur, is convinced that Africa’s future depends on its ability to develop a strong manufacturing sector.

With that in mind, she co-founded Adina World Beat Beverages in 2004 and recently launched her second company, The Tiossano Tribe, which produces high-end skin care products based on traditional Senegalese recipes.

For years, Mrs Wade has been very critical of the condescendence with which, in her opinion, often well-intentioned people in the developed world - and especially in the country where she conducts most of her business, the United States - treat Africa. In one of the columns that she regularly writes for The Huffington Post and other publications, she argues that those who would really like to help the continent should “transcend their romance with foreign aid and microfinance, and begin to take seriously investing in African manufacturing and purchasing products made in Africa”.

“My vision for Africa is one in which it becomes the first region of the world to create a socially and environmentally responsible manufacturing base,” she says in another article. To those who doubt that it is possible to do so, she reminds them how she started to invest in the country of her birth after having studied in France and moved to the US.

(via BBC News - How a Senegalese flower grew into a huge US business)

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Tina Fey (posted in the comments of this article: http://rookiemag.com/2011/09/male-gaze/)

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