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fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:

Luke Cage season 2 announces directors

After facing criticism over the entirety of its first season being directed by men. the second season of Luke Cage will have a directorial lineup that is 6/13 women.

5 out of 6 of the directors are women of colour, who still make up a small minority of television directors over all. 

One director, Steph Green, is an Oscar nominee for her short film New Boy. 

The directors and some of their directorial credits:

  • Lucy Liu (Elementary)
  • Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Queen Sugar, Scandal)
  • Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, Shots Fired)
  • Neema Barnette (Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day, Queen Sugar)
  • Millicent Shelton (30 Rock, Blackish, Jessica Jones)
  • Steph Green (Scandal, The Americans, New Boy)

afatblackfairy:

spacialfries:

rudefeminist:

my opinions on racism will always be limited as I’m from a position of white privilege, so whilst it’s so important to call out racial inequality and oppression when I see it, it’s also important for me to recognise that my voice should not shout over those who have actually experienced racism and have a far better understanding of how it operates then I ever will

so many people on tumblr dont seem to get this

All my white followers take a gander

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

Ava DuVernay, Writer/Director/Producer of “I Will Follow” and “Middle of Nowhere” (via womanwholovestruth)

there are actual, self-identified NAZIS marching on the streets chanting donald trump’s campaign slogans while cosplaying his golf gear, and all donald trump can do…

okbjgm:

…is make a pale appeal to “unity” and  a vague attempt at describing a wrong evenly divided among “all sides”. 

now, i’m just a simple television writer, but i think we can all agree that condemning racism in the form of swastika-brandishing morons is not exactly an act of political suicide, even for the most craven and cynical. as a country we are all pretty much in agreement about the evils of the third reich and what it took to defeat them.

so what are we left to think of a president who can’t even bring himself speak ill of people actively working – in his name, while wearing his clothes, and shouting his words – to resurrect an evil that hundreds of thousands of america’s “greatest generation” gave their lives to destroy?

this is our country. this is our president. this is the biggest threat to our democracy. it isn’t immigrants. it isn’t gay marriage. it isn’t transgendered people in the armed forces. it isn’t minorities. 

this is it.

^^^^^^

unicyclehippo:

im honestly just like furious at the ideas that pervade media & everything that is so layered so im gonna fuck up talking abt it but it’s like this dumb violent cycle that produces maybe two kinds of coming out stories: 1, kid struggles w sexuality, feels shitty abt it, tries hard to be “”“normal”“”, some one is like babe ur valid & everything is healed, & 2, kid comes out & isn’t accepted for it & holds their head high & struggles through it. & like it’s so pervasive it doesn’t give kids a chance to like not be aWare of this shit. not be aware that as queer kids ur gonna have to grovel & beg at least once in ur life for someone to accept u & u know the fuck what??? it’s bullshit. it’s bullshit & i honestly feel like i’ve been punched every time my family says the most minor homophobic shit & then i feel BAD abt that bc im being “”“too sensitive”“” but like it’s not one comment it’s this sharp little reminder that the next time i come face to face w this person, they might know & they might despise me & it unsettles u in a very deep horrifying way bc ur self perception is doubled or cleaved in two bc u are one person who u know & u are one person they know & u have to be so careful all the time w what u project & what u say & it bleeds into our communities w near desperation like we make joking “touch starved” posts but i can’t rmbr the last time someone hugged me who knows that im queer & there’s a difference, there’s an ease abt being hugged by someone who Knows who u are.

& the first coming out story where someone not queer tells them that they’re valid & everything is healed Isn’t Real & u grow up thinking if i can get this one person to tell me im okay, if this person can tell me im valid & all that, then i will be okay & u latch onto all these outside influences to be okay, to be safe & u don’t get to develop that voice inside that is certain abt it. it always depends on an others view of u. & the second kind of coming out where the kid Struggles like congrats mate this cements the fear that gay life is a constant struggle. in a way i think is almost worse, it can sometimes stage this suffering as smth noble, as an “i’ll prove them wrong one day” kind of thing & i hate it i Hate it. ppl don’t have to struggle to be worthy of respect, of being treated well, this shouldn’t be the lesson we are taught!!

anyway that’s a rant it’s stupid it’s all been said before I’ll delete it later im just sad

With @tumblingsnail, please don’t delete.  There is nothing stupid here, just honesty and this kind of insight is what often lacks in discussing these stories. We see these struggles play out online, with discussions about representation, and it is so frustrating and heartbreaking to see the misinformation and doubt and sneer of the crowd that doesn’t care to learn.  

Thanks as always for sharing your thoughts with us.