Equality Issues Intro for April 19, 2021 Dear Gossips, Seems like any time Mickey Guyton is at an award show she makes history. She did it again last night at the Academy of Country Music Awards when she hosted. And, as award show hosts do, there were several outfit changes. My personal favourite of all of them By Lainey • Apr 19, 2021 08:58 am
TV Updates Colton Underwood Comes Out As Gay Former Bachelor, Colton Underwood, came out as gay during an interview on Good Morning America today. Between him being the lead on one of the most heteronormative shows on TV, people tweeting that they “knew all along”, and his relationship from the show which ended in a restraining order, there By Anastasia • Apr 14, 2021 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua abandon Georgia So, obviously, Joe Biden becoming President of the United States did not fix every problem in the world. In fact, based on the events of the last few weeks, it is very much a case of “same song, different verse”. Following a historic election in Georgia that saw the red By Sarah • Apr 13, 2021 01:11 pm
Equality Issues The Tonight Show TikTok Dance Controversy In my piece on Addison Rae last week, I wrote about how disappointing it was to see her perform TikTok dances without any recognition of the original dance creators, many of those creators being Black. This perpetuates the problematic patterns of BIPOC creatives not getting the credit they deserve. Thanks By Anastasia • Apr 07, 2021 03:30 pm
Name Nerd Her Name Is Thandiwe The May issue of British Vogue features an interview with cover star Thandiwe Newton – and the entire piece is framed by that once-omitted ‘w’, and the correct pronunciation, ‘Tan-DI-we’. The explanation in the piece is that it was ‘carelessly missed out’ from her first credit, which seems both overly generous By Duana • Apr 06, 2021 01:18 pm
Top Reads Rihanna at the Rally! There was a Stop Asian Hate march in New York on Sunday, just a few days after a 65-year-old Filipino woman was attacked outside an apartment building while bystanders did nothing. Rihanna has used her social media over the last few weeks to raise awareness about anti-Asian racism: And this By Lainey • Apr 06, 2021 10:19 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 31, 2021 Dear Gossips, I got an email yesterday with the sender including a link to the video of the 65-year-old East Asian woman who was beaten in New York City while walking past an apartment building and told that “you don’t belong here”, while the people in the lobby, including By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 10:04 am
Equality Issues BTS Supports #StopAsianHate This past weekend, there were anti-Asian racism protests in several major cities across Canada and the United States. In Los Angeles, a youth group performed towards the end of the rally to BTS’s “Dynamite”. For some time now, BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 02:45 pm
Top Reads Viola Davis: “We’re dope” Viola Davis was a double winner at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, recognised for her performances in How To Get Away With Murder and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which she’s been nominated for an Oscar, becoming the most-nominated Black woman in Academy history. This factored into By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 11:52 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae’s Awards Perspective The NAACP Image Awards took place this weekend, hosted by Anthony Anderson. Issa Rae won her first NAACP Image Award for lead actress in a comedy. She was nominated alongside Regina Hall, Folake Olowofoyeku, Yara Shahidi, and Tracee Ellis Ross. And she hilariously shouted out Tracee in her acceptance speech. By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 10:38 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jodie and Joshua’s Badass Baby Stroller No better way to start the week – here are Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson in New York this weekend out for a walk with their baby who is almost a year old now?! Howwwwww….? I know, I know we’ve all been talking about how it’s been a year By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 09:43 am
Equality Issues Lil Nas X Confesses Queer Sins Lil Nas X loves introducing new characters in his music videos and today we’re blessed with “Stripper Nas”. Last night he dropped his new track, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”, along with its accompanying music video — which is sinfully delicious. The track’s title is a combination of By Cody • Mar 26, 2021 02:46 pm
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
