Ellen Oh's Blog, page 87
May 8, 2016
this-is-life-actually:
What Mother’s Day is like when you’re...
What Mother’s Day is like when you’re estranged from your mom“Mother’s Day is always uncomfortable for me, ever since I was little,” 36-year-old Sally* said in a Gchat interview. Last year before Mother’s Day, Sally decided to cut ties with her mom, who left home when Sally was a child but sporadically reappeared throughout the years without explanation.
For people like Sally who have toxic relationships with their moms, Mother’s Day can be an annual reminder of th...
May 5, 2016
richincolor:
PoC in Superhero Comics
When the announcement of...
PoC in Superhero Comics
When the announcement of the New Super-Man featuring a Chinese (!!) Superman by Gene Luen Yang came out a few months ago, I figured I needed to get on the superhero comic train. Here are a few of the comics I’ve been reading, and a few that I’m looking forward to:
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by by Brian Michael Bendis, Sara Pichelli
Silk, Vol. 0: The Life and Times of Cindy Moon by Robb...
#WHITEWASHEDOUT: ASIAN REPRESENTATION IN HOLLYWOOD
May 4, 2016
diversityinfilmtv:
About #whitewashedout
May is
Asian...
About #whitewashedoutMay is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. What better opportunity to highlight the dire state of Asian representation in Hollywood? In celebration, and protest, Nerds of Color, joined by such acts as Margaret Cho (the first Asian-American actor to get her own sitcom) has kicked off a month long campaign called #whitewashedout.
“It’s the beginning of a month-long campaign using the hashtag #WhiteWashedOut forAsian Pacific American Heritage Month...
asiansinhollywood:
A few stand out tweets from The Nerds of...
A few stand out tweets from The Nerds of Color #whitewashedOUT trend today.
It wasn’t only a Nerds of Color thing. sigh.
addoilcomics:
I illustrated some tweets from the recent...
I illustrated some tweets from the recent #whitewashedOUT campaign that was sparked by the furor of Asian Americans as both Tilda Swindon and Scarlett Johansson were recently cast into Asian roles/as Asians. As Twitter Moments says:
Comedian Margaret Cho, writer Ellen Oh, and the organization Nerds of Color, came together to start a campaign about the lack of Asian American communities being represented in mainstream media and society at large using the hashtag #WhiteWashed...
