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#Ncuti Gatwa#Black excellence#Hollywood diversity#racial bias#industry standards#white mediocrity#representation#cultural background#acting career#systemic racism#inclusion in media#breaking barriers#casting diversity#societal expectations#love and acceptance#shifting status quo#racial inequality#acting industry#pressure to excel#cultural representation#diversity in media#Hollywood inclusion#racial double standards#minority representation#Black actors#media stereotypes#equal opportunity#racial bias in casting#breaking stereotypes#cultural authenticity
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I really love that Anne gave Lestat a romantic interest that didn't fall within the conventional 1990s westernized standard of beauty, like his description of a forty-year-old Gretchen in TotBT is just so refreshing to me â even today!
I thought again how like the Grecian women of Picasso she was, large and fair. Her eyebrows were dark brown and her eyes light-almost a pale green-which gave her face a look of dedication and innocence. She was not young, this woman, and that, too, enhanced her beauty very much for me.
Large and not young! What a visionary, truly.
*I will not be talking about Gabrielle here because a) she's Lestat's mother and he loves her so he is already predisposed to want to see beauty in her and b) Lestat describes Gabrielle as being slender with features that were "too kittenish" which "made her look like a girl"; I feel that that is obviously a different type of beauty altogether.
#i think fandom tends to hyperfixate on louis and nicki and ignore the fact that lestat actually has quite a diverse range of lovers!#(most controversial statement of my entire career)#vc#the vampire chronicles#lestat de lioncourt#gretchen#quotes
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Le sigh. I want to move to Canada one day so bad. Even perhaps to just go live in the backwoods (though Vancouver is really amazing). I recently reconnected with my nice lesbian auntie and she said she would help me research ways I could potentially immigrate sooner than later (and she's very good at those sort of things)... waa... thank you, nice lesbian auntie. I'm counting on you.
I think my goal is to get up there in the next five to ten years â˘Ě.ĚŤâ˘Ě⧠and my first step to accomplishing that is.... Moving to Washington! >:D
Please cheer me on or I'll send maggots to your brains! <3
#I'll take my time getting nice and comfy in Washington but#before I even think about immigration I'd have to tackle the question of my career path lol#Vancouver is expensive. too expensive for a wageslave like me.#So I'll have to explore my options a little more and consider what it is I want to do.... hmm hmm hmm....#I'm hoping the more I venture out of my shell and explore the world#especially when I end up visiting Van more frequently (which seems to be an artsy & diverse city)#that it might become more apparent what it is I want to do with my life#:3
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Donald Sutherland guest stars as the appropriately named Philip Guest, a less appropriately unbalanced kidnapper, in Gideon's Way: The Millionaire's Daughter (1.21, ITC, 1966)
#donald sutherland#fave spotting#gideon's way#the millionaire's daughter#1966#itc#classic tv#:(#I've had this rattling around in my draftsâ with a whole heap of other Gideon's Way postsâ for months now#just waiting for me to get around to tagging them and getting a few final quotes etc (moving abroad did not help in that regard)#a sad reason to be dragging this out from drafts but it felt fitting somehow to mark Don's passing with one of his earliest and#most obscure roles. anyone who has followed my fave spottings at all (follow the tag for more early Sutherland) will know i have always#championed Donald's status as surely the most successful rentayank on the scene; they were an (unofficial) group of actorsâ mostly from#Australia or (like Don) Canadaâ who'd moved to the UK for work and found themselves filling just about any American role on classic tv or#in minor Brit films. Don was far from the most prolificâ spending just a few years in the uk where others (eg Paul Maxwellâ Shane Rimmer#Charles Tingwell and more) ended up staying for most of their long careers. but Don did the roundsâ turning up in shows like this and#The Avengersâ The Saint and The Champions. he even managed to fit in a couple of filmsâ including Hammer's Die Die My#Darling (aka Fanatic) and the wonderful Dr Terror's House of Horrors for Amicus. then it was on to bigger and better things...#i can't think of many legitimate Hollywood leading men (and he absolutely was that) to show such incredible range#to work so diversely across genre and across style and to jump so readily from trashy blockbuster fare to genuine art film#in many ways he was a jobbing character actor somehow caught in the career of a full blown movie star; those films were all the better#for that fact and for his sheer dedication to his craftâ to having funâ to doing the kind of stuff he wanted to do#truly a one off. we don't get many Donald Sutherlands. we should cherish the ones that we do#rip
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Okay, so I was re-reading your Slider one-shot for like the twentieth time, and what really struck me (beyond the brilliance of your writing, and the way youâve presented the disillusionment of growing up, expecting the world to be a certain way, only to realize that life doesnât quite work out the way you think it will, when youâre seventeen), is the casual sexism just tossed âround by our main characters!! :o We have canonical evidence of both Ice and Mav being pretty sexist (what with âthe plaque for the alternates is in the ladiesâ roomâ and the downright stalker-ish behavior exhibited by Mav at the O-clubâŚ), but it still surprised me a lilâ when twenty-y/o Ice was just like: âThe Soviet Union did the impossible and taught women to driveâ âand I realized that ah, he truly was born in 1959, or something. Thereâs little scenes throughout your story where I find myself wondering, which one of them is better, in this sense: When Ice tells Mav that Sarah isnât talking to him âcause of his combat kills, justifies it by saying: âYou know how women areâ, and Mav tells him all women arenât the same⌠I thought that maybe, it was Mav; but then later, Ice shows a distinctive amount of empathy for Juno, sees and respects her for the skilled pilot that she is⌠and I thought that maybe, itâs Ice after allâhe does seem to be more progressive and accepting than Mav, in general? It also made me wonder, that if either of them had been a woman, would they even have respected the other person enough to consider them to be a rival??âor would it have a been a mildly-amusing circus side show for them, to have a female pilot at TOPGUN?
Ty for the ask anon!! ice is more socially progressive than mav yes.
Butâmaybe this is my experience growing up in one of the bluest counties in Commiefornia and then going to one of the most leftist-coded colleges in one of the most leftist-coded cities in The World; uhh, even if a white man votes D all the time & has professional respect for women/minorities to their faces etc, get him in a room with a bunch of other white men, especially in a masculine and competitive environment like the gym or the navy, and uh. progressive or not, what you get is a lot of âThe Soviet Union did the impossible & taught women to drive.â
And it was the 1980s. (As a reminder, in top gunâs 1986, less than 45% of Americans even approved of interracial marriage.) It sucks to say it, but if Ice was making fun of Cougar for quitting the navy cause of his psych issues such as they may be, and openly calling bullshit on Maverickâs MiG story in front of everyone, I am quite confident in saying he Would Not respect a female pilot to her faceâif they were the same rank. At the same rank, itâs a competition. All weaknesses, even perceived biological ones, are to be exploited and called to attention. âBut, once heâs advanced in rank, proven his own superiority, heâs more inclined to favor a meritocratic âsex doesnât matter just fly goodâ attitude, ergo his relationship w/ âJunoâ (sheâs just a literary symbol to show that Ice may have respect for other minorities in the Navy âyour career speaks for itselfâ but NOT FOR HIMSELF as a closeted man). This âwho cares about gender/race just fly goodâ attitude is probably where 50s+ Maverick lands too, which is why no issues with Phoenix.
but jesus GOD maverick is a sexist in the original Top Gun. Thatâs why I wrote the prologue to WWGATTAIâa part of me definitely believes both he and Ice are definitively queer, but a part of me also wonders, are they just also conditioned to dismiss women as intellectual/societal equals because of their time in the 1980s male-dominated Navy? CAN they really only have a truly equal relationship with another man? I have no idea what my Iceâs sexual orientation is for exactly this reason. Yes, heâs functionally gay by the end of it, and thatâs what I keep calling himâbut sexuality is fluid & complicated. Itâs definitely more-than possible heâs mostly straight and itâs just the circumstances of his wildly intense trauma-bond relationship with Maverick that led to their relationship as I wrote it. If you donât LIKE/understand/respect women, and only feel at home/excited by committing acts of male-typified violence with the few men you respect, how does that bend your definition of the word straight? ...its still straight, but only straight-ish!
not to take it a step further, but WHY ELSE is canon maverick single in TGM? he canonically canât make it work with women until he retires from the navy!!! he doesnt know how!!! His military environment is not conducive to normal long-term relationships with civilian women!!!
#and itâs well well documented that career military service does this to you!#Jesus look at cops. 40% etc.#yeah mil/LEO relationships with women are historically quite bad.#if you only respect men & then a man comes onto youâmight be easier to sustain that relationship than with a woman you do not respect#I forget where i read it but this is the element of the homosocial vs the homosexual. i want to say Foucault but I think thats incorrect#EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK. from her 'between men: English literature & male homosocial desire.' I think she's the preeminent homosocial scholar#if ur interested in 'further reading' not to sound like a geek#fellas is it gay to like women#after allâŚwomen kiss menâŚso if u kiss a woman ur kissing something thatâs kissed another manâŚgay#ice (mid-makeout): well mavericks kissed women before so really this is the most heterosexual thing i could do#anyway#pete maverick mitchell#tom iceman kazansky#top gun#top gun maverick#icemav#asks#edts notes#mav is a social libertarian live & let live & keep the govt out of my bedroom (except for my marriage license uwu)#ice is a social moderate liberal. donates to actblue firmly believes diversity is the militarys greatest strength etc.#(i hope this isnât too provocative to say but) look at ices outfit in tgm. libcoded. those gay little round glasses? solid lib.#the interracial marriage stat is from Gallup btw; 94% in 2021. weve come a long way. a lot has changed since 1986.#but our fav characters are FROM 1986 too so... we still cant forget that
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Can Looking Weird at Work Be Good for Your Career?
I work in a large technology company. Like all technology companies, it has a diversity problem in its high-level, high-visibility roles. Most of their leaders are straight white men over the age of forty.
Itâs something theyâre acutely aware of, and desperately trying to address. Theyâre terrified of not addressing it. And they have good reason to be.
This generation is more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Its women are more educated and command more purchasing power. Weâre less religious than any other generation. We embrace LGBT people so hard we damn near pop their little gay heads off. We arenât getting married, having children, buying houses, or spending money in a way to which companies can easily adapt. Diversity is a core part of who we are as a generation.
And yet despite that, many of the crucial industries that drive our economy fail to reflect this new normal.
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Renee Montoya is like. The Gay of Gotham City. More specifically sheâs the Gay Ex of Gotham City. In every comic? Sheâs Kateâs ex. CW Batwoman? Sheâs Poison Ivyâs ex. Gotham show? Sheâs goddamn Barbara Gordonâs motherâs ex. Most bicycleable lesbian in New Jersey.
#renee montoya#diversity win! this gay is on her fifth divorce!#batwoman#gotham#leo says shit#local woman just canât stop committing toxic yuri. worried this may affect her career as gritty noir detective.
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i have never really wanted to touch an animal but i really believe i belong in this field
#not because im grossed!! im just scared because a dog bit my butts when i was smol!#i love being here this is the best#its so fucking diverse i can have at least 50 different careers from here
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district 4 female tribute of the 74th hunger games ⥠cecaelia
#i feel strongly about more diversity in the hg cast and the girl who played nora in the wilds is perfect for d4 girl#also i don't even remember the original movies but i think the actress cast for d4f wasn't white#however there are white people in these other pics - i don't control that lol i did a 5 minute search on pinterest#but yeah careers of color my beloved <33#it's part of the reason i will never even think of fancasting a white woman/any other actress tbh for eno#especially because meta golding is literally the perfect person for eno#district 4 female tribute#thg#the hunger games#**mine#mineaesthetic
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have yâall seen that tweet thatâs like âiâm probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn.â that is so heavily kakyoin coded
#/ tbd#i donât mean to insinuate that nonbinary people over 40 donât exist because ofc they do and i know some of them lol#but i will say that if kak had been born 10-20 years later he would definitely identify that way jdhshehdvdn and thatâs just bc#growing up in the 70s-80s in japan there just was not a lot of information available about gender diversity and kak was already#going thru it realizing he is gay and like. while he was never ashamed of being gay it was def smth he didnât like#openly talk about until he was in his 20s & just stopped giving a fuck#and once he learned about nonbinary people he was kind of misguided in thinking like . oh thatâs only for people who#have dysphoria/donât identify with their assigned gender at all#like he probably didnât realize itâs actually a spectrum until he was already married and had a child and a stable career#and by that point he was just like idk whatever JTHSHSVSVSDWFWGQS#being nonbinary myself and not really realizing it until i was already in my mid twenties and also working in education#iâm kind of in the same boat in that like . i kind of just let people misgender me because itâs just too much work to frequently defend#my identity and also iâm like not super mad when people she/her or âmissâ me even though it does make me a lil uncomfortable lol#ultimately my portrayal of kak is a cis man and identifies as one but like . also he might be nonbinary actually . idk itâs hard to explain
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MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on âthe goal of true educationâ
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MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on âthe goal of true educationâ
After a week of festivities around campus, members of the MIT community gathered Saturday evening in the Boston Marriott Kendall Square ballroom to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Marking 50 years of this annual celebration at MIT, the gala eventâs program was loosely organized around a line in Kingâs essay, âThe Purpose of Education,â which he penned as an undergraduate at Morehouse College:
âWe must remember that intelligence is not enough,â King wrote. âIntelligence plus character â that is the goal of true education.â
Senior Myles Noel was the master of ceremonies for the evening and welcomed one and all. Minister DiOnetta Jones Crayton, former director of the Office of Minority Education and associate dean of minority education, delivered the invocation, exhorting the audience to embrace âthe fiery urgency of now.â Next, MIT President Sally Kornbluth shared her remarks.
She acknowledged that at many institutions, diversity and inclusion efforts are eroding. Kornbluth reiterated her commitment to these efforts, saying, âI want to be clear about how important I believe it is to keep such efforts strong â and to make them the best they can be. The truth is, by any measure, MIT has never been more diverse, and it has never been more excellent. And we intend to keep it that way.â
Kornbluth also recognized the late Paul Parravano, co-director of MITâs Office of Government and Community Relations, who was a staff member at MIT for 33 years as well as the longest-serving member on the MLK Celebration Committee. Parravanoâs âlong and distinguished devotion to the values and goals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires us all,â Kornbluth said, presenting his family with the 50th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award.Â
Next, students and staff shared personal reflections. Zina Queen, office manager in the Department of Political Science, noted that her family has been a part of the MIT community for generations. Her grandmother, Rita, her mother, Wanda, and her daughter have all worked or are currently working at the Institute. Queen pointed out that her family epitomizes another of Kingâs oft-repeated quotes, âEvery man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.â
Senior Tamea Cobb noted that MIT graduates have a particular power in the world that they must use strategically and with intention. âEducation and service go hand and hand,â she said, adding that she intends âevery one of my technical abilities will be used to pursue a career that is fulfilling, expansive, impactful, and good.â
Graduate student Austin K. Cole â24 addressed the Israel-Hamas conflict and the MIT administration. As he spoke, some attendees left their seats to stand with Cole at the podium. Cole closed his remarks with a plea to resist state and structural violence, and instead focus on relationship and mutuality.
After dinner, incoming vice president for equity and inclusion Karl Reid â84, SM â85 honored Adjunct Professor Emeritus Clarence Williams for his distinguished service to the Institute. Williams was an assistant to three MIT presidents, served as director of the Office of Minority Education, taught in the Department of Urban Planning, initiated the MIT Black History Project, and mentored hundreds of students. Reid was one of those students, and he shared a few of his mentorâs oft repeated phrases:
âDo the work and let the talking take care of itself.â
âBad ideas kill themselves; great ideas flourish.â
In closing, Reid exhorted the audience to create more leaders who, like Williams, embody excellence and mutual respect for others.
The keynote address was given by civil rights activist Janet Moses, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; a physician who worked for a time as a pediatrician at MIT Health; a longtime resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a co-founder, with her husband, Robert Moses, of the Algebra Project, a pioneering program grounded in the belief âthat in the 21st century every child has a civil right to secure math literacy â the ability to read, write, and reason with the symbol systems of mathematics.â
A striking image of a huge new building planned for New York City appeared on the screen behind Moses during her address. It was a rendering of a new jail being built at an estimated cost of $3 billion. Against this background, she described the trajectory of the âcarceral state,â which began in 1771 with the Mansfield Judgement in England. At the time, ânot even South Africa had a set of race laws as detailed as those in the U.S.,â Moses observed.
Today, the carceral state uses all levels of government to maintain a racial caste system that is deeply entrenched, Moses argued, drawing a connection between the purported need for a new prison complex and a statistic that Black people in New York state are three times more likely than whites to be convicted for a crime.
She referenced a McKinsey study that it will take Black people over three centuries to achieve a quality of life on parity with whites. Despite the enormity of this challenge, Moses encouraged the audience to ârock the boat and churn the waters of the status quo.â She also pointed out that âthere is joy in the struggle.â
Symbols of joy were also on display at the Gala in the forms of original visual art and poetry, and a quilt whose squares were contributed by MIT staff, students, and alumni, hailing from across the Institute.
Quilts are a physical manifestation of the legacy of the enslaved in America and their descendants â the ability to take scraps and leftovers to create something both practical and beautiful. The 50th anniversary quilt also incorporated a line from Kingâs highly influential âI Have a Dream Speechâ:
âOne day, all Godâs children will have the riches of freedom and the security of justice.â
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Beyond the Boardroom: Mixing Business with Pleasure
Mixing business and pleasure is not a fleeting trend but a comprehensive strategy that can lead to productivity and improved well-being.
In the modern business landscape, the age-old adage of ânever mix business with pleasureâ seems to be undergoing a significant transformation. As the lines between professional and personal lives increasingly blur, a new paradigm emerges, advocating for a harmonious blend of business activities with leisure pursuits. This approach, often encapsulated in the phrase âmixing business and pleasure,ââŚ
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#adaptive work cultures#balance in professional settings#boundary setting#business and leisure integration#business innovation#career advancement#collaboration techniques#corporate culture evolution#corporate retreats#creative inspiration#cultivating professional friendships#digital nomad lifestyle#diversity and inclusion#effective communication#employee well-being#engaging work experiences#enhancing team cohesion#entrepreneurial lifestyle#flexible work arrangements#fostering creativity in the workplace#hybrid work models#inclusivity in the workplace#innovative business practices#job satisfaction enhancement#leisure activities in business#leisure-driven productivity#modern workplace dynamics#navigating professional landscapes#networking strategies#personal and professional growth
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Thank you Yale thank you Harvard thank you UC Berkley thank you Stanford. <3Â
#especially props to yale for doing the right thing and leading this because they were actually ranked 1 and benefited from the old system#quite a bit#and still brought up the disparate impact this was having against schools that prioritized#public service careers and socioeconmic diversity#my school got screwed by the rankings even though it was voted best in other reports for elevating the economic status of it's incoming#students#and has the best environmental law program in the country#and has a bar passage rate slightly above the state average#and ny has the 2nd hardest bar exam
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Books of 2023: THE ECHO WIFE by Sarah Gailey. I donât recall intending to hop on the Acquire-All-Things-Gailey train, but at some point I did?? And I have No Regrets?? This one was actually a gift, which was delightful!
#books#books of 2023#book photography#the echo wife#sarah gailey#honestly i suspect gailey might be approaching Writer Goals(TM)#writes in a variety of genres and has wildly varied Aesthetics but definitely a Writerly Brand#i'm here for the genre hopping with recurrent themes and wild spread of ideas honestly#cat valente is the other author i side eye and go.....hm. Maybe You.#at some point i heard an agent say 'think about which currently published writers whose careers you'd like to have'#so i percolate on that intermittently haha#but gailey has some (one) YA and then writes the spread of spec fic#and i think i'm here for it tbh#valente is similiar in my brainpan#(i appreciate valente's length diversity too)#not me pining after authorial careers on a monday night or anything....
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Hahaha remember when you thought ÂŁ9,000 was bad?
#it's a horrible death spiral where only privileged people can afford to be writers OR early career editors#like demographically an editor now NEEDS to be someone who is both privileged enough to afford it#they're likely going to need family/partner money just to live in London#and oppressed enough to tolerate being overworked and exploited for horrible pay#i.e it is almost impossible for them NOT to be upper class white women#and that has an obvious impact on who gets published#and an ever less diverse pool of people will be submitting in the first place#because working two+ jobs is fucking exhausting#and people just. can't do it.#Anyway no piracy isn't the only cause of this by any means but this is why I'm never going to think book piracy is anything but shitty
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Often times at work when I am the only woman in the room I question my decision to go into a male dominated field. Then I remember if I went into a female dominated field, like I wanted to, I literally wouldnât make enough money to survive.
#brb screaming inconsolably#no single man has ever given the level of thought into his career path that I did at 17#itâs not fucking fair and Iâm gonna whine about it leave me alone#how I love being a woman#I literally wanted to go into education#also Iâm supportive of women going into stem and diversity is DESPARATELY needed but the stupid girlboss shit is useless#bc we cannot and will not ever be able to fix the root problem of women and âwomenâs workâ being undervalued and self sacrificial#itâs well documented that when more women enter a field the salaries go down and vice versa#see: education for the former and computer science/coding for the latter#GAAHHHHHH I hate being aware of these things I wish I didnât think critically about anything#stem woes
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