Equality Issues Intro for June 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, John Boyega joined protestors in London yesterday in support of Black Lives Matter, delivering an impassioned, emotional speech denouncing anti-Black racism, calling for justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and so many more, and praising the contributions of Black women. He also made it By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 09:04 am
What Else What Else? Are clocks magic? Is time magic? No. It’s just math. For some, though, me included, math is like magic. I’m not actually bad at math. I’m just bad at remembering math – there is nothing mathematical that I can retain unless it’s gambling related. As soon as By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 04:09 pm
Mad Men Mad Men, Imperfect but Prescient Mad Men is leaving Netflix next week, on June 9. I knew this, and Lainey and I talked about me commenting on it, earlier this month. Then, of course, after the death of George Floyd, trying to find something to say about a show that was accurately criticized for focusing By Duana • Jun 03, 2020 03:44 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Working While Black For many Black people in Hollywood, much of the work they’ve been doing over the last week is defending their right to exist with dignity and protesting police anti-Black racism and violence. As Kendrick Sampson (Insecure) told The Hollywood Reporter, “Most of the organizers that I know have had By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 02:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 3, 2020 If you haven’t read Lainey’s analysis of Lea Michele’s apology from earlier this morning, you simply must. I cannot let you miss the line, “WHAT OTHER WAY IS THERE TO PERCEIVE YOU TELLING SOMEONE YOU WOULD SH-T IN THEIR WIG?!?” I might steal it from Lainey and By Maria • Jun 03, 2020 02:14 pm
Books Ben-Ana at the protest Let’s catch up with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. It’s been a few days. And yesterday they stepped out in Venice to support Black Lives Matter and those protesting the demolition of First Baptist Church. March for #GeorgeFloyd in #Venice today. Blessed to have @BenAffleck express awareness By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 01:22 pm
Top Reads John Boyega marches in London John Boyega has not been quiet this past week after the murder of George Floyd. He shut down commenters last week when he tweeted that he hates racists which, I dunno, seems like a pretty uncontroversial statement, non? And people still had to get into his mentions with some all By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 12:16 pm
Douchebags Lea Michele’s “apology” As you may have heard, Lea Michele tweeted a message of support for Black Lives Matter the other day and then got exposed by Samantha Marie Ware for her bullying. Several of Lea’s other former colleagues also piped up to share similar experiences or to confirm (through likes) that By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 11:17 am
Long Reads This week in America (Here is the latest installment in our Long Reads series – Sarah’s personal story about being an America living in America right now.) This week in America is happening because last week in America a police officer murdered George Floyd. I have lived in Chicago ten years this summer. During By Sarah • Jun 03, 2020 09:41 am
Keke Palmer Intro for June 3, 2020 Dear Gossips, Have you seen the video of Keke Palmer pleading with members of the National Guard yesterday at a demonstration in support of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles yesterday? As the caption reads, please watch. https://twitter.com/GadiNBC/status/1267945648705298433?s=20 Yesterday Kathleen was on The By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 09:03 am
What Else What Else? Seth Rogen is trying to be a better ally. He has donated in support of Black Lives Matter and bailout programs. He is using his platform to support why people are protesting and seems to be – at least from what I’ve seen – thinking about how he can change and By Lainey • Jun 02, 2020 04:06 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 2, 2020 It’s Black Out Tuesday on social media and Lainey wrote about #theshowmustbepaused today in the intro. That’s why you are seeing these black squares today. This is where some confusion is coming in – as Lizzo pointed out, #blacklivesmatter and #theshowmustbepaused are two separate hashtags. Activist Kenidra Woods clarifies By Maria • Jun 02, 2020 03:20 pm
Equality Issues Gwyneth Paltrow and the “blindspot of white privilege” As I mentioned in the Tracee Ellis Ross post earlier today, as a member of the “model minority” who has benefitted from white proximity, it’s up to me to engage in conversations about anti-Black racism and identify bias and privilege in my own community among Asians and white people By Lainey • Jun 02, 2020 02:57 pm
Douchebags A Blind Item Come To Life Every time I mention a cast member from Glee in Celebrity Social Media, I can’t help but point out that I think the show is cursed. Beyond all the very bad stuff that happened to various people, that show was surrounded by a weird energy field. Co-creator Ryan Murphy By Maria • Jun 02, 2020 12:40 pm
Equality Issues Tracee & Tyler A few days ago on CNN, Don Lemon called out a list of celebrities who hadn’t spoken out about the murder of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter. Among them was Tracee Ellis Ross. As a non-Black person, I don’t feel like I have a By Lainey • Jun 02, 2020 11:56 am
Ellen Degeneres Ellen Isn’t Getting It Over the weekend, Ellen DeGeneres weighed in on the protests going on across North America in support of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the long list of victims of anti-Black crime. In a now deleted tweet she said: “Like so many of you, I By Prem • Jun 02, 2020 10:27 am
