TV Updates Should Meghan McCain leave The View? Meghan McCain has been trending all week, but she lives rent free in my head for other reasons too. I’ve been watching the show every day for the past three years and I am here to admit that I am an anti-racist and anti-conservative liberal who loves Meghan McCain By Melayna • Mar 26, 2021 12:42 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Margaret Cho is on Vulture’s Good One podcast this week to promote her appearance in FX’s Hysterical, the upcoming documentary on women in comedy (trailer here). During the conversation she talked about the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and also her own regrets about her “non-acknowledgment By Lainey • Mar 26, 2021 09:04 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae: Media Mogul Insecure season four, which premiered on April 12 last year, was one of the few highlights in the spring of 2020, during the early part of the pandemic in the west. It was also, for the Black community, a source of comfort midway through the season after the murder of By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 12:14 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, History was made last night on TSN in Canada during the Toronto Raptors game as the broadcast featured an all-female crew: Kayla Grey, Meghan McPeak, Kia Nurse, Kate Beirness, and Amy Audibert. And the Raptors ended a nine-game losing streak. It was a joy to watch, obviously for By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 09:07 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 22, 2021 Dear Gossips, Sandra Oh is currently in Pittsburgh shooting a new series. On Saturday she made as surprise appearance at the local Stop Asian Hate protest to lend her voice in raising awareness for the surge in anti-Asian violence that has been happening over the last year, resulting in last By Lainey • Mar 22, 2021 09:03 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, Yesterday I posted about my concerns over how the media would be covering the Atlanta shooting and, well, as soon as we hit publish on that article, the reporting and the messaging about the crime and murderer was already a disappointment. So the murderer got HIS side out By Lainey • Mar 18, 2021 10:18 am
Top Reads #StopAsianHate Here are some photos of Olivia Munn out in LA yesterday, before she would have found out about the shooting in Atlanta. Eight people are now dead, six of them Asian women, as the murderer targeted multiple locations, all of them either spas or massage parlours. Authorities have not declared By Lainey • Mar 17, 2021 02:27 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, In his first interview since disclosing that he is transgender, Elliot Page tells TIME that while he was expecting that the reaction would be a mix of “support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia”, he did not think his news would be as big By Lainey • Mar 17, 2021 09:36 am
Maple Leaf Drake’s 1, 2, 3 Drake has just accomplished something that no other musical act has ever done – he is now the first artist ever to release three songs in the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100. “What’s Next” is #1, followed by “Wants and Needs” ft Lil Baby in the #2 By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 01:50 pm
Douchebags The Talk Unravels in Real Time We are seeing talk show The Talk unravel in real time. It might not be a bad thing; I think it’s good for talk TV in general and good for the public to see what happens when white fragility is accepted, centered, and in this case, upheld. Of course, By Melayna • Mar 16, 2021 11:15 am
Equality Issues The Bachelor Failed its First Black Bachelor Leading up to the Bachelor finale, it was quite obvious that Rachael Kirkconnell would win, but the official results and the aftermath were still up in the air until last night. The episode shows that in its current form, the franchise wasn’t ready for their first Black Bachelor, and By Anastasia • Mar 16, 2021 10:28 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 16, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Oscar nominations yesterday revealed that the Academy still gets hard over movies like Mank (auteur, black and white, Old Hollywood) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (film critic Rad Simonpillai told me yesterday on etalk that there could be a comparison here between Brokeback Mountain and By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao makes history Infuriating snubs aside, there are some feel-good stories among this year’s Oscars nominees, and Chloe Zhao’s historic year is one of them. Zhao and Emerald Fennell mark the first time two women have been nominated at the same time for Best Director, and Zhao is the first woman By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 02:09 pm
Equality Issues Grammys: DaBaby & Boomers Perform I think the Grammy’s best performance of the night came as a surprise early in the evening, thanks to DaBaby. “Rockstar” ft Roddy Ricch spent seven weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 last year and went into this year’s Grammys with three nominations. The song’ By Cody • Mar 15, 2021 12:37 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé Blessed the Building….and Left Like I said in the open today, I thought the Grammys were well-produced and I appreciate that they put in the effort to make good TV. But like I also said in the open, that was a long ass show. And while I can happily binge eight hours of a By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 11:49 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, At this point I don’t think you can overstate the impact that the Television Event of the Year is having – on the British royal family and the overall culture. And I’m not just talking about the fact that this was a monoculture moment at a time By Lainey • Mar 11, 2021 09:19 am
