Music Red Carpet for Teyana Taylor As I mentioned a few days ago, the first red carpet in almost four months (five? who can remember anymore?) happened earlier this week for a show I’ve never heard of and I only recognised two names on the guest list: Bai Ling and Ian Ziering. Last night’s By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 03:07 pm
Equality Issues Rihanna gives again It’s just been announced that in partnership with Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation is donating more than $15 million to communities of colour struggling who have been disadvantage by racism during the COVID-19 pandemic: This is an important and specific point – to remind people By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o on Black Lives Matter We’re just over a month away from Emmy nominations which will be announced on July 28th. Lupita Nyong’o is eligible for the outstanding narration category for her work on Discovery’s Serengeti, a wildlife documentary series that she narrates along with John Boyega. Yesterday, Lupita did an interview By Prem • Jun 19, 2020 09:39 am
TV Updates Love, Victor Switches Up the Formula Back when the trailer came out for Love, Victor, the spinoff TV show from Love, Simon, I wondered how the show’s creators planned to differentiate the show from the movie. Yesterday, the first season of the show was released on Hulu, and it’s not what I was expecting. By Prem • Jun 18, 2020 12:04 pm
Top Reads Lonnie Chavis: Growing up Black Lonnie Chavis is one of the stars of This Is Us, he plays the young version of Sterling K Brown’s character, Randall. He has written an essay about the experience of growing up Black, and please, particularly if you are not Black or Indigneous, please read it because right By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 11:23 am
Dumbass Nia DaCosta gives us a taste of Candyman Candyman was supposed to come out this month, but has been, like every other movie, rescheduled to later in the year (supposedly September 25, but we’ll see). In lieu of seeing the actual movie, director Nia DaCosta dropped a two-minute short “prequel” on Twitter, telling the story of By Sarah • Jun 18, 2020 10:36 am
Equality Issues What Can We Take Away from the Historic Supreme Court Decision? Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) made a landmark decision in support of LGBTQ community. In a 6 – 3 decision, judges voted to protect LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace, deciding that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act applied to LGBTQ+ individuals. Basically, it means that By Prem • Jun 16, 2020 03:57 pm
Music Intro for June 16, 2020 Dear Gossips, The other day in What Else? I linked to a story about the band Lady Antebellum and their name change to Lady A. At the time, I said it was a good explanation, considering that the country music audience is so white and they would be alienating their By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 08:35 am
Equality Issues What Happened to Sasha Exeter On Friday, Kathleen wrote a piece at Refinery29 about what Sasha Exeter shared on Instagram last Wednesday and how certain media outlets have covered the story. Many of them, from Vanity Fair to The Telegraph to the Canadian Press, have been characterising Jessica Mulroney leaning into her white privilege against By Lainey • Jun 15, 2020 10:43 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 12, 2020 Dear Gossips, Since last Friday, alongside my colleagues at CTV, I’ve been working on CHANGE & ACTION: RACISM IN CANADA, a 90 minute special that will air on CTV tomorrow, Saturday June 13, at 8pm. This has been rewarding and challenging work for our entire team as we’ve By Lainey • Jun 12, 2020 09:03 am
Dumbass Harry Potter and the 3,600-word Essay of Transphobia Part of me doesn’t even want to write this article. It’s not that I’m tired of writing about trans rights (I will always be thirsty for some Respect Trans People Juice), but because I’m not sure we should even be giving JK Rowling this much screen By Prem • Jun 11, 2020 10:33 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, We had some technical issues yesterday and we think we have it under control now but if you missed it, our opening yesterday was about HBO Max removing Gone With The Wind from its library and how Hollywood is reckoning with its past but also must interrogate its By Lainey • Jun 11, 2020 09:14 am
Equality Issues The Benefits of Defunding the Police This week a reader called E emailed Lainey about the inclusion of Indigenous peoples in the ongoing discussions around race, reform, and revolution happening on the site over the last couple of weeks. E brought up a very good point: Native peoples are also the targets of police brutality in By Sarah • Jun 10, 2020 03:18 pm
Equality Issues Harry Potter Says Trans Rights Remember in the final Harry Potter movie, when Harry and Voldemort are fighting and they’re shooting orange and green things out of their respective wands? That’s basically what went down yesterday IRL. In response to JK Rowling’s transphobic tweets, Daniel Radcliffe penned a statement in defense of By Prem • Jun 09, 2020 02:09 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt at the protest and Alia Shawkat apologises Brad Pitt was seen at the Black Lives Matter protest in LA on Sunday. The Daily Mail has exclusive rights to the photo that was taken by another protester. “Protester Aree Khodai, 42, said she saw the star riding with the crowds. 'The amount of people there was amazing. By Lainey • Jun 09, 2020 01:24 pm
Equality Issues Intro for June 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, Ava DuVernay’s tweet yesterday illuminated for me that I’ve been doing it wrong in not naming George Floyd’s murderers, referring to them only as police officers, even though by now you probably know their names: Derek Chauvin is the one who held Floyd down with By Lainey • Jun 09, 2020 09:11 am
