Results for: representation
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Untethered: A Great Lady
I’ve been eulogizing, just to myself, in the moments between other moments that are claimed by tasks or thoughts of the present or literally anything else.
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Naya Rivera Is Dead at 33, Glee Star’s Body Recovered from Lake Piru After 6-Day Search
Naya Rivera was a firecracker, a superstar, a singular talent who simply could not be relegated to the background.
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Laura Aguilar, Groundbreaking Lesbian Chicana Photographer, Dies at 58
Aguilar was a pioneer in sharing the faces and experiences of various Latina lesbians in the 90s, when there was very little representation. Aguilar’s art gives the marginalized and subcultures within subcultures — poor, fat, woman, lesbian, Latina — a place to be held and seen.
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“Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Occupy Everything Together”: Remembering Brazilian Bisexual Activist and Politician Marielle Franco
Rio de Janeiro Councillor Marielle Franco, who was assassinated on 14 March 2018 after speaking at an event for the empowerment of Black girls, was a firebrand of a politician, feminist, and human rights activist whose work was deeply informed by her experiences as an Afro-Brazilian Catholic lesbian woman born and raised in the favelas.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dead: Brilliant Actor, “Capote” Star, Legendarily Uncool
“I didn’t go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That’s what interests me.”