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Jeanine Mason Cast as Lead in Roswell Pilot, Julie Plec Joins as Executive Producer and Director

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-Jeanine Mason will portray Liz Ortecho, a biomedical researcher who returns to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico and learns her high school crush is an alien.
-Julie Plec, who worked with creator and professional fangirl Carina Mackenzie on The Originals, will direct the pilot and executive produce if the show goes to series.
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Jennifer Lawrence Round-up

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Jennifer talks about Amy's wedding



- says it was very sudden but beautiful
"I was sobbing the whole — his vows were stunning. It's when two people really love each other and they really mean it, it shows, and it was a beautiful ceremony and an amazing time. I couldn't be happier for them."





-She found doing an accent daunting and scary.
-She took ballet lessons for four months
"I couldn't get on pointe or anything like that, but it was more helpful for just kind of learning the mental and physical discipline that goes [into ballet]," she said. "It was more of a character study."
-She was nervous before doing the nude scene
"Everybody made me feel so comfortable that I probably at a certain point started making everybody else uncomfortable."
"Because I'd be like, 'I don't want the robe. I'm hot. I'm eating.' Everybody's like, 'She needs to cover up,'" Lawrence joked.


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lol when she was asked what top secret she wants to know

Disney announces DESCENDANTS 3 with a teaser

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CBB US Day 7: Did you sleep with Trump? + Eviction!

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-Ari informs James that he is safe.

-Shannon still doesn't understand how she is seen as the most dangerous player in the game and the biggest super fan and is upset that they keep ignoring Marissa/Omarosa/Ross. She breaks down since everyone is against her and wishes she could self-evict.

-Brandi asks Omarosa if she ever slept with Trump and reveals that she's heard other former Apprentice women have slept with him.

-Marissa turns into ONTD and lusts after James as he strips to take a shower.

-World Peace continues his relationship with the stuffed animal and finds out the Owl is a guy. No word on if the relationship will continue.


-Shannon attempts to use Omarosa to stay safe while Omarosa attempts to manipulate Shannon just in case she stays. She goes on to manipulate James into thinking James is the target. Brandi confronts Omarosa and she denies denies denies. Everyone confronts Omarosa and she straight up lies and tells a COMPLETELY different story.

-Brandi decides that they need to bring James into their alliance to guarantee their safety. While Shannon attempts to build up new alliances.

-Everyone gets a personal message from their loved ones (husbands,wives,kids,parents) while Brandi gets a message from her ex-boss Andy Cohen.

-Omarosa says that Sean Spicer could barely pronounce words.

-James wins Veto which sends Shannon into revenge mode wanting to make sure that the big 4 are taken down.

-Shannon is evicted but not before Brandi gets shady and votes to save her.



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kendrick lamar’s label to host free ‘black panther’ screenings for kids

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+ Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) in
partnership with Interscope Records will host free “Black Panther” screenings for the youth of the Watts neighborhood in South Los Angeles.
+ Three screenings will be held on Feb. 17 at theaters in Nickerson Garden Projects, Jordan Downs Projects, and Imperial Courts Projects.
+ Similarly, Rapper T.I. also partnered with Walmart to give 300 tickets to families so they could see advanced screenings.


+ Brie Larson, who is currently filming Captain Marvel, also joined the efforts to help fans who can’t afford tickets to see the Ryan Coogler film.


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Khalid x Normani - Love Lies (Official Video)

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She has arrived. Watch ya faves receding hairline!
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(5) 30 Of The Worst Couples In Literature

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Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Synopsis: Romeo & Juliet is a play about two young star-crossed lovers from feuding families.

They commit suicide over a 6-day courtship.


Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Synopsis: Wuthering Heights is about a passionate affair between Catherine and Heathcliff. Heathcliff was adopted by Catherine's father. When her jealous brother humiliates Heathcliff, he leaves and returns to exact revenge for his treatment.

They are an unhealthy and abusive couple.(To each other and others!)


The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Synopsis: The Great Gatsby is about Nick Carraway who moves to New York in search of the American Dream.  He gets entangled in the wealthy lives of his cousin Daisy, her cheating husband Tom and Nick's neighbour Gatsby.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." (Daisy kills Tom's girlfriend, and Tom gets Gatsby killed.)



Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Synopsis: Gone Girl is about Nick and Amy a glamorous and happily married couple. When Amy goes missing, Nick becomes the prime suspect.

He's a douchebag that cheats on her. She tries to frame him for her murder.


Breaking Dawn - Stephiene Meyer
Synopsis: Breaking Dawn is the fourth book in the Twilight series. Bella becomes pregnant as human, and this sets the wolves and vampire clans against her. Bella, Edward & Jacob fight to protect the child.

He falls in love with the baby??????????



Whose your literary boyfriend/girlfriend?
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Were Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux legally married?

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- Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux tied the knot at their home in Bel-Air in 2015,

- reportedly there are no records of them obtaining a marriage license in California,

- they could obtain a license from a different county or get married elsewhere and get a ceremony in Bel-Air.

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ONTD Original: Everything you need to know about the new Queer Eye's Fab 5

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The Queer Eye reboot has an all-new Fab 5 crew. Here's all you need to know about them before (or after!) you start binge-watching!



Jonathan Van Ness (grooming)



Yas hunny! Jonathan is the one with the luscious long locks (seriously, how does he get that amazing shine??), and the star of the Emmy nominated (!) webseries Gay of Thrones. He was bullied as a kid, was his high school's first male cheerleader, loves ladies figure skating and the Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. He works as a hair stylist in LA and NYC. And he has a podcast, Getting Curious! Jonathan is the most positive and upbeat and if you don't like him, I can't be friends with you. Byeeee



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Bobby Berk (design)



THE hardest working member of the Fab 5. While Antoni will be teaching a bitch how to make an avocado salad with like, 3 ingredients, Bobby's redoing a whooooole house, checking for termites, tearing down walls and ugly cabinets, buying new stuff, building and paiting furniture... honestly. The man is a design god, even if he shelves books THE WRONG WAY ROUND.

He worked in retail and now he has a huge interior design brand and online store. And he's married!!!!!

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Karamo Brown (culture)



Did I say culture?? I don't know why they called it that. He's basically the self-esteem guy, talking to people, figuring out their insecurities and helping them feel more confident. I know some of y'all don't think he does a lot, but he does more than Jai did!

Karamo loves fly bomber jackets (seriously his collection is AH-MEEEE-ZING) and thirst trapping on insta. He was on The Real World, was a social worker, and in 2007 discovered that he was the father of a 10 year old boy (!!) and got custody of him that same year. In 2010 Karamo adopted his son's half brother.

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Antoni Porowski (food)



Antoni will teach guys to make guac or a hot dog, and that's it, but he looks cuuute doing it. He has a boyfriend, who is like, even cuter than he is, no joke.

Antoni is pretty quiet and shy (not shy enough not to post thirst traps though js), and admits to being supersensitive. He loves dogs!!! He's neighbours with and worked for Ted Allen, he likes indie rock (especially The Strokes, I mean can you even call them indie anymore? but seriously he has a different Strokes tee for every episode) and the book A Little Life.

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Tan France (style)



Understated fave, Tan is British-Pakistani, Muslim and married to a Mormon (really). He gets uncomfortable having his photo taken. He doesn't have twitter and he thinks Hopper from Stranger Things is daddy af.

Tan is big on tailored outfits but he can also make a frumpy dad look stylish just with the stuff he found on a Target. That's impressive!


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seize the weekend, ONTD! watch Queer Eye on netflix

Camila Cabello sells out first solo tour

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In not so surprising news, ex-Fifth Harmony lead singer Camila Cabello announced on all forms of social media that her solo tour has sold out just ONE day after being released to the public for general sale.

The Havana singer kicks off on her 20+ date tour in North America, and will conclude the tour in the UK.  Due to high demand, 2nd dates were added for multiple cities across the US, and have also sold out.

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neil labute's latest play canceled

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MCC Severs Ties With Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute


The Off-Broadway company has also canceled its upcoming production of Reasons to be Pretty Happy.



MCC Theater canceled the upcoming production of probably misogynist as hell play Reasons to be Pretty Happy by giant creepo Neil LaBute and is terminating his tenure as its playwright-in-residence, effective immediately. Gee I wonder why. Representatives for the company declined to comment further because they know the article's about to drop.

MCC has produced a number of LaBute’s plays and has collaborated with the playwright for more than 15 years. The company has worked with LaBute on Fat Pig, The Mercy Seat, The Distance from Here, Reasons to be Pretty and i mean if those titles don't tell you everything you need to know, and the 2016 solo play, All The Ways To Say I Love You, starring two-time Tony winner Judith Light who should know better smh.

The world premiere of LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty Happy, directed by Leigh Silverman was set to close out the 2017–2018 season. Aw, poor dat. In his newest play, the playwright revisits the characters first introduced in Reasons to be Pretty and Reasons To Be Happy because he's probably totally out of ideas.

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from the man who brought you this iconic scene:

ryan coogler round-up

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On this episode of "Notes on a Scene," Black Panther's director and co-writer Ryan Coogler breaks down a fight scene in the movie featuring Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, and Chadwick Boseman.

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Co-writer/director Ryan Coogler and his leading man Chadwick Boseman sit down with Complex for a discussion on the making of Black Panther, what inspired and overwhelmed them, working with Kendrick and TDE on the soundtrack and how the movie could impact black-led blockbuster opportunities going forward.

Black Panther at BAM screening
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Ryan Coogler visited the BAM Harvey Theater for a special screening and Q&A a few days ago. Spike Lee also attended.









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Sally Field wants Adam Rippon to date her son

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  • Sam Greisman, son of Academy Award winner Sally Field, tweeted about his "olympic crush" with an image of a text between him and his mother.

  • Field, who later tagged Adam in the post, responded to her son's message with "Sam...he's insanely pretty...find a way"

  • Field has been a huge LGBTQ activist, and in 2014 she wrote in an open letter that she considered raising her son to be one of the greatest privileges of her life. “What horrifies me is that there are parents who so disapprove, who are so brainwashed to think that this is something out of the Bible or ungodly or against nature. It’s not against nature if nature has actually done this. Sam was always Sam, this wonderful human that he is, from the time he was born.”



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this is cute imo. anything to get adam away from that asshat t*ler oak*ey

Florence Kasumba addresses BP's lack of Queer Representation

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  • Florence Kasumba portrays Ayo, one of the Dora Milaje that serve as King T'Challa's personal guard in Black Panther. Having previously appeared in Captain America: Civil War, the character was expected to have a major role in this film.

  • In the comic books, Ayo has a romantic relationship with Okoye, who is portrayed in this film by Danai Gurira, and a Vanity Fair reporter claimed that she saw footage of Ayo and Okoye flirting with each other. However, the footage was cut for unknown reasons (you know why).

  • Florence was asked about the relationship between Okoye and Ayo, and she revealed she had read the World of Wakanda comic book. "The thing is, if the makers would have wanted everyone to see the scene, it would have been in the movie. The final result that we’ve seen, there were a few scenes that have been cut. Different scenes, also. They didn’t make it into the movie for certain reasons, and at that point, I have to say: What their reason is, I can’t tell you, because nobody told me about whether it’s in or not."

  • She did mention that she would like to see it play out eventually. "I’d love to, at some point. Not now, because it’s too soon. At this point, the focus is somewhere else. I started reading World of Wakanda towards the end of filming and I loved reading the comics. I loved reading about, Okay, how do the Doras become Doras? … That’s the whole reason why we had a boot camp [to train for the movie]: In order to be physically able to move as a unit. That was more important. That’s what I’m saying, right? Who is in love with whom and whatever — that was not important in this movie."



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Omarosa: Someone in the White House is "sleeping around with everybody"

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When asked by fellow Celebrity Big Brother contestant Brandi Glanville if she slept with Trump (RUDE), Omarosa flat-out denied it. However, she added, "There’s somebody in the White House that’s sleeping around with everybody, but she is not me... I’ve never had to do that." For reasons unknown to man, no one asked a follow-up question.

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ONTD Original: 100 Memoirs By Women

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ONTD Original: 100 Memoirs by Women


  1. Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residental School. In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution’s lasting effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.

  2. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet. In this culmination of Watt-Cloutier's regional, national, and international work over the last twenty-five years, The Right to Be Cold explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture.

  3. Mini Aodla Freeman, Life Among the Quallunaat. The story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic.

  4. Ma-Nee Chacaby, A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder.** Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.

  5. Maria Campbell, Half-Breed. A young Métis woman's struggle to come to terms with the joys, sorrows, loves and tragedies of her northern Saskatchewan childhood.

  6. Linda Hogan, The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir. Hogan recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, the troubled history of her adopted daughters, and her own physical struggles since a recent horse accident.

  7. Wilma Mankiller, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation of our nation.

  8. Mary Crow Dog,Lakota Woman. Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies.

  9. Deborah A. Miranda, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir.** This book leads readers through a troubled past using the author's family circle as a touch point and resource for discovery. Personal and strong, these stories present an evocative new view of the shaping of California and the lives of Indians during the Mission period in California.

  10. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins,Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs And Claims. Sarah Winnemucca (c. 1844-1891), daughter of a Paiute chief, presents in her autobiography a Native American viewpoint on the impact of whites settling in the West.


  1. Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate RaceA powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia.

  2. Sally Morgan, My Place. Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture.

  3. Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America.

  4. Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dary: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus. A powerful first-hand account of life in the streets of São Paulo from 1955 to 1960 that drew international attention to the plight of the poor.

  5. Domitila B. De Chungara, Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, Domitila describes the hardships endured by Bolivia's vast working class and her own efforts at organizing women in the mining community.

  6. Carmen Aguirre, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter. A gripping, darkly comic first-hand account of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile.

  7. Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us. From an award-winning novelist and sought-after public speaker, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after illegally emigrating from Mexico to the United States.

  8. Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican. In this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years and her tremendous journey from the barrio to Brooklyn, from translating for her mother at the welfare office to high honors at Harvard.

  9. Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws.** When We Were Outlaws offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women’s Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s.

  10. Daisy Hernández, A Cup of Water Under My Bed.** In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race.


  1. Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped. In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life—to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why?

  2. Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography.** Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor & conviction. The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people & incidents that have influenced her life & commitment to global liberation of the oppressed.

  3. Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials.

  4. bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer.

  5. Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power. Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy.

  6. Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.** From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s wois cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her.

  7. Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming.** In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.

  8. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime.

  9. Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida. B Wells. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks.

  10. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.


  1. Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central HighThe Other Side of Paradise. In 1957, well before Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.

  2. Staceyann Chinn, The Other Side of Paradise.** Told with grace, humor, and courage, Chin plumbs tender and unsettling memories as she writes about drifting from one home to the next, coming out as a lesbian, finding the man she believes to be her father, and ultimately, discovering her voice.

  3. Mary Matsuda Grueneald, Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps, The author at 16 years old was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps.

  4. Hana Yamagawa, From Okinawa to the Americas: Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century. Hana's richly detailed memoir is a rare, first-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New World. It spans nearly a century, from Hana's early life in a small village not long after the Ryukyu Kingdom's annexation to Japan; to a sugar plantation in Peru and its capital, Lima; to her dangerous trek through Mexico and the California desert to enter the U.S. and start a new life, this time in the Imperial Valley and finally Los Angeles.

  5. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands. Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s memoir is a courageously frank and deeply affecting account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian-American woman, writer, and teacher.

  6. Raicho Hiratsuka, In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist. Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the early women's movement in Japan. In 1911, she founded Bluestocking (Seito), Japan's first literary journal run by women. In 1920, she founded the New Women's Association, Japan's first nationwide women's organization to campaign for female suffrage, and soon after World War II, the Japan Federation of Women's Organizations.

  7. Anchee Min, Red Azalea.** Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China.

  8. Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom. Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be "completely free," she had to confront the truth of her past. It is an ugly, shameful story of being sold with her mother into slave marriages by Chinese brokers, and although she at first tried to hide the painful details when blending into South Korean society, she realized how her survival story could inspire others.

  9. Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father. Chronicles the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, from the author's forced ''evacuation'' of Phnom Penh in 1975 to her family's subsequent movements from town to town and eventual separation.

  10. Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children.


  1. Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together.

  2. Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie”—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. In Coolie Woman—shortlisted for the 2014 Orwell Prize—her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her.

  3. Urmila Pawar, The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs. Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste.

  4. Phoolan Devi, The Bandit Queen of India. Enduring cruel poverty, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation of an abusive marriage, the savage killing of her bandit-lover, and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains. In a three-year campaign that rocked the government, she delivered justice to rape victims and stole from the rich to give to the poor, before negotiating surrender on her own terms. Throughout her years of imprisonment without trial, Phoolan Devi remained a beacon of hope for the poor and the downtrodden.

  5. Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

  6. Rafia Zakaria, The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan. Telling the parallel stories of [Rafia's aunt's] polygamous marriage and Pakistan’s hopes and betrayals, The Upstairs Wife is an intimate exploration of the disjunction between exalted dreams and complicated realities

  7. Riverbend, Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. In August 2003 a young Iraqi blogger began reporting her experiences as a civilian observer in Baghdad. Calling herself Riverbend, she has offered searing eyewitness accounts of daily life in the war zone and has garnered a worldwide audience hungry for unfiltered news and fresh analysis.

  8. Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening. The book movingly chronicles [Ebadi's] childhood in a loving, untraditional family, her upbringing before the Revolution in 1979 that toppled the Shah, her marriage and her religious faith, as well as her life as a mother and lawyer battling an oppressive regime in the courts while bringing up her girls at home.

  9. Samar Yazbek, A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution. A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed the beginning four months of the uprising first-hand and actively participated in a variety of public actions and budding social movements. Throughout this period she kept a diary of personal reflections on, and observations of, this historic time.

  10. Soha Bechara, Resistance: My Life for Lebanon. In 1988, at the age of twenty, Souha Béchara attempted to assassinate General Lahad, chief of militia in charge of Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon. Immediately apprehended, interrogated, and tortured for weeks, she was sent to Khiam, a prison and death camp regularly condemned by humanitarian organizations.


  1. Ibtisam Barakat, Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine. As a child, Ibtisam Barakat wanted nothing more than to become a writer. This wasn’t a common path for a girl living in the politically tumultuous Palestine of the 1970s, but she found inspiration in pen pal correspondence and from the adults who encouraged her dream. Still, the most surprising turn of events for Ibtisam happened when her mother decided that she, too, wanted to defy circumstances and seek an education.

  2. Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe, and coming of age in Golders Green, the north London Jewish suburb. A powerful biographical story, In Search of Fatima reflects the author’s personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East.

  3. Manal al-Sharif,Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening. A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women’s right to drive.

  4. Fatema Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Gilrhood. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth—women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. Dreams of Trespass is the provocative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex in the recent Muslim world.

  5. Leila Ahmed, A Border Passage. Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. [W]hen the Revolution arrived, the family's opposition to Nasser's policies led to persecutions that would throw their lives into turmoil and set their youngest child on a journey across cultures. Hers is a life lived through some of the major transformations of our century: the end of colonialism and of the European empires, the creation of Israel, the rise of Arab nationalism, and the breakdown of the multireligious society that had thrived in Egypt.

  6. Nawal El Saadawi, Walking Through Fire: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi. Famous for her novels, short stories and writings on women, Saadawi is known as the first Arab woman to have written about sex and its relation to economics and politics. Imprisoned under Sadat for her opinions, she has continued to fight against all forms of discrimination based on class, gender, nationality, race or religion. This autobiography shows the passion for justice that has shaped her life and her writing.

  7. Ahdaf Soueif, Cairo: My City, Our Revolution. Ahdaf Soueif - novelist, commentator, activist - takes us through her city of Cairo and traces the path of the revolution that's redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record, she charts a story of the revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian.

  8. Wangari Maathai, Unbowed. Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.

  9. Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde, Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma. Describing the dichotomy of being both revered and reviled, this memoir traces the story of a sangoma—a traditional healer—who is also a lesbian. Descriptions of traditional African healing practices and rituals are provided alongside the personalized account of one woman acting as a mirror to the daily hardships and indignities felt by members of the gay community in Africa

  10. Miriam and Mark Mathabane, Miriam's Song: A Memoir. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left behind in South Africa. It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation -- who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s and finally saw the destruction of apartheid and the birth of a new, democratic South Africa.


  1. Mende Nazer, Slave: My True Story. Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.

  2. Halima Bashir, Tears of the Desert. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught up in the war in Darfur.

  3. Scholastique Mukasong, Cockroaches. Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda--the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994.

  4. Thea Halo, Not Even My Name: A True Story. Not Even My Name is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I.

  5. Dawn Anahid MacKeen, The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey. An epic tale of one man’s courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter’s quest to tell his story. Reading [her grandfather's] rare firsthand account, his granddaughter Dawn MacKeen finds herself first drawn into the colorful bazaars before the war and then into the horrors Stepan later endured. Inspired to retrace his steps, she sets out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension.

  6. Courtney Angela Brkic, The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living. When she was twenty-three years old, Courtney Angela Brkic joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. As she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains and transcribing the memories of survivors, she also explores her family's history in Yugoslavia, telling of her grandmother's childhood in Herzegovina, early widowhood, and imprisonment during World War II for hiding her Jewish lover.

  7. Ruth Klüger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. Kluger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York, has emerged as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal.

  8. Heda Margolius Kovály, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968. In this powerful and moving memoir, Kovály describes her imprisonment by the Nazis during WWII and her persecution by the Communists in the 1950s -- a classic account of life under totalitarianism.

  9. Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State. Nadia's story—as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to pay attention to the ongoing genocide in Iraq. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.

  10. Kamla Patel, Torn from the Roots: A Partition Memoir. Offers first-hand account of operation recovery carried out by the newly constituted Governments of India and Pakistan in 1947 to recover women and children who had been abducted during the riots and chaos of Partition and restore them to their families.


  1. Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in a Conquered City: A Diary. For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.

  2. Una, Becoming, Unbecoming.* A devastating personal account of gender violence told in comic book form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt. Through image and text Una asks what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned.

  3. Margaux Fragoso, Tiger, Tiger. This extraordinary memoir is an unprecedented glimpse into the psyche of a young girl in free fall and conveys to readers - including parents and survivors of abuse - just how completely a pedophile enchants his victim and binds her to him.

  4. Jane Doe, The Story of Jane Doe. On an August night in 1986, Jane Doe became the fifth reported woman raped by a sexual serial predator dubbed the Balcony Rapist. Even though the police had full knowledge of the rapist’s modus operandi, they made a conscious decision not to issue a warning to women in her neighbourhood.  In 1987, Jane Doe sued the Metropolitan Police Force and won.

  5. Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side: A Memoir. Lacy Johnson was held prisoner in a soundproofed room in a basement apartment that her ex-boyfriend rented and outfitted for the sole purpose of raping and killing her. The Other Side is the haunting account of a first passionate and then abusive relationship, the events leading to Johnson’s kidnapping and imprisonment, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover.

  6. Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life. On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present.

  7. Linda Lovelace, Ordeal. Linda Lovelace became a household name in 1972, when Deep Throat became the first pornographic movie ever to cross over into the mainstream. Soon after, Lovelace joined in with anti-pornography feminists led by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and she testified before Attorney General Meese's Commission on Pornography in 1986.

  8. Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure.** Tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.

  9. Susan Faludi, In the Dark Room.When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father—long estranged and living in Hungary—had undergone sex reassignment surgery, her investigation into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga would turn personal and urgent.  Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father's many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest.

  10. Janet Mock, Redefining Realness. This powerful memoir follows Mock’s quest for identity, from an early, unwavering conviction about her gender to a turbulent adolescence in Honolulu that saw her transitioning during the tender years of high school, self-medicating with hormones at fifteen, and flying across the world alone for sex reassignment surgery at just eighteen.


  1. Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of A Better Word).** In first-person prose as intimate as a diary, Hillman redefines memoir in a series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community.

  2. Claudia Brenner, Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence.** The lesbian victim of a violent hate crime that left her seriously wounded and her partner dead is the story of family and community, the medical system, the police and courts, and the media--and of one woman's incredible courage.

  3. Chana Wilson, Riding Fury Home: A Memoir.** In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own head and pulling the trigger.  It would be many years before she learned the secret of her mother’s anguish: her love affair with another married woman, and the psychiatric treatment aimed at curing her of her lesbianism.

  4. Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began.** For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed “residential treatment program” modeled on the many “therapeutic” boot camps scattered across Utah.With the help of a dedicated legal team in Salt Lake City, Alex eventually escaped and made legal history in Utah by winning the right to live under the law’s protection as an openly gay teenager.

  5. Terry Galloway, Mean Little Deaf Queer.** In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. With disarming candor, she writes about her mental breakdowns, her queer identity, and living in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters.

  6. Cece Bell, El Deafo.* This funny perceptive graphic novel memoir about growing up hearing impaired is also an unforgettable book about growing up, and all the super and super embarrassing moments along the way.

  7. Georgina Kleege, Sight Unseen. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment - both her own view of the world and the world's view of the blind.

  8. Simi Linton, My Body Politic: A Memoir. While hitchhiking from Boston to Washington, D.C., in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam, Linton was involved in a car accident that paralyzed her legs and took the lives of her young husband and her best friend... Linton takes us on the road she traveled (with stops in Berkeley, Paris, Havana) and back to her home in Manhattan, as she learns what it means to be a disabled person in America.

  9. Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face. At age nine, Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit.

  10. Amy Berkowitz, Tender Points. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, gendered illness, chronic pain, and patriarchy through the lenses of lived experience and pop culture.


  1. Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay. At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything.

  2. Irene Vilar, The Ladies' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets.Vilar revisits the legacy of her grandmother (Lolita Lebrón, the revered martyr for Puerto Rican independence) and that of her anguished mother, who leapt from a speeding car when Vilar was eight. Eleven years after her mother's death, Vilar awakens in a psychiatric hospital and begins to face the devastating inheritance of abandonment and suicide passed down to her from grandmother and mother.

  3. Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression. Wrapped within Danquah's engaging account of this universal affliction is rare and insightful testimony about what it means to be black, female, and battling depression in a society that often idealizes black women as strong, nurturing caregivers.

  4. Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living.

  5. Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life.

  6. Kate Millett, The Loony-Bin Trip.** A personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after falling under an ascription of manic depression.

  7. Ellen Forney, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me.*** Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity.

  8. Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye. After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond.

  9. Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying. In a single day in 2004, Danticat learns that she’s pregnant and that her father, André, is dying... In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, [Danticat's uncle] is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He’s then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days, dying a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. (PW)

  10. Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave. On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since.

- all summaries are from goodreads apart from where directly indicated
- themes: sex-based oppression, gender socialization, colonialism, racism, genocide, poverty, sexual violence, lesbophobia, disability, mental illness, grief
- the idea was to focus on memoirs, rather than other autobiographical works
- this is not intended to be a definitive list
- *indicates that the work is a graphic memoir
- **indicates the author is a lesbian or bisexual

J.J. Abrams: "Last Jedi" backlash won't affect Episode IX

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“‘Star Wars’ is a big galaxy, and you can sort of find almost anything you want to in ‘Star Wars.' If you are someone who feels threatened by women and needs to lash out against them, you can probably find an enemy in ‘Star Wars.’ You can probably look at the first movie that George [Lucas] did [‘Star Wars: A New Hope’] and say that Leia was too outspoken, or she was too tough. Anyone who wants to find a problem with anything can find the problem. The internet seems to be made for that.”

On if the outcry would affect the upcoming film: “Not in the least. There’s a lot that I would like to say about it, but I feel like it’s a little early to be having the ‘Episode IX’ conversation … I will say that the story of Rey and Poe and Finn and Kylo Ren — and if you look, there are three men and one woman, to those that are complaining that there are too many women in ‘Star Wars’ — their story continues in a way that I couldn’t be more excited about and cannot wait for people to see.”

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NYCB independent investigation “can’t corroborate” assault from Peter Martins

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I interrupt this beautiful Black Panther weekend for these disgusting news.
This is a follow up to my Ballet posts here and here. I’ve shared all the background there, so you can refer back if you haven’t heard but the short version is this:

- Peter Martins, former director of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet was accused of assault, sexual harassment and other incidents through an anonymous letter to the board of the company.

- The board hires a law firm to conduct an independent investigation.

- Many, many dancers come out with distressing stories of abuse, in multiple instances, over different stages of their careers at NYCB/SAB, taking place in many different years. Many of them speak to the investigating law firm and discuss the ways in which it’s evident that it’s not impartial and not treating victims properly while also not making the investigation records open to those interviewed.

- The vice chairman of the board, Sarah Jessica Parker wears #TimesUp movement button, pays lip service to the initiative and donates.

Last Thursday, the board announces that the investigation is over and here are the results:



-The board announces that the investigation interviewed 77 dancers and that the allegations were not corroborated. The Chairman of the board claims everyone was encouraged to speak and that’s the result.


- Writers, critics and fans remark that if the investigation is so pure and transparent, it should be released. The board does not release the investigation.

- Victor Ostrovsky, one of the dancers who came forward, told the NYTimes: “They weren’t able to prove through witnesses anything? That just doesn’t make sense. I was on stage with a bunch of kids — they all knew what happened.”

- Kelly Cass Boal, another former NYCB dancer who accused Martins of abuse, wife of Pacific Northwest Ballet director, Peter Boal told the NYTtimes, about talking to the investigator: “felt like she was trying to make it sound like what I’m saying is false. They were doing the investigation just to say what they’re saying right now.”

-Some dancers come, as expected with problematic statements no one asked for, like Megan Fairchild who told the NYTimes: “This is what I thought would happen, because that’s the experience that I had, so I’m not surprised at all.” She added, “I felt that when he was leaving it was a sad thing and a shame and that we would not be our best company.”

-Despite this statement, Megan has been proved wrong, as NYTimes critic Alastair Macaulay wrote just a few days ago and Singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton weighed in with a great opinion:



- NYTimes claims many dancers who came forward have claim to expect better from NYCB board vice chair and ‘busy talking about how she and Kim Catrall are or aren’t enemies’ Sarah Jessica Parker, to do better, as she has publicly supported the #TimesUp campaign, so SJP talked over text with the NYTimes: “it was very important to me that any allegation was taken seriously” and that she had supported “a rigorous outside investigation.” She said she and many current company dancers “continue to be in conversation” and that “their safety and a healthy, creative work environment is paramount to me, always has been and always will be.”

- Despite them claiming there was nothing wrong, the board announced in their statement that there are now new policies and training for everyone in the company in school including a strengthened code of conduct on equal employment opportunities and nondiscrimination; and “practices to ensure a workplace that is free from bias, prejudice or harassment.“

- No changes have been announced to the direction of the company or the school which, at the time are being directed by a diverse group of people.

You can read the entire NYTimes piece on the report including more quotes on the first tweet posted here. Perhaps surprisingly, not many dancers seem to have posted on social media about this and I couldn’t find tweets or IG posts to share.




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ONTD Original: Oscar Snubs & Surprises

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Nominations are everything in Hollywood. Nominations mean much more than they appear. Some nominations are bullshit (Casey Affleck, Emma Stone, Armie Hammer, Jared Leto, Linda Hunt, How Green Was My Valley, and Memoirs of a Geisha anyone?) while some are well deserved. However, quite often there are the films and actors that we believe should have been nominated, but were not, for whatever reason or another. Here are some surprising snubs.

Best Supporting Actress

Molly Shannon - Other People (2016)



Often times, actors get offered little variety in their roles. There are very rarely any times we get to see them step outside their comfort zone and tackle something serious only to be laughed at for attempting to stray from their wholesome roles (Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls anyone?). Molly Shannon broke that trend with her emotional performance in Other People, based on the true story of Chris Kelly and his family. Shannon plays a terminally ill mother dealing with the struggles and hardships of cancer while her son tries to hold everything together. (No, seriously, bring the tissues. This is not an easy film to watch) Although Jesse Plemons is the main protagonist, it is Shannon that provides the film with an emotional core, and it is she, like the fragile character that she plays, that holds the film together. Shannon got snubbed for Best Supporting Actress, with the award going to Viola Davis for her powerful performance in Fences. She did however win the Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards.

Best Supporting Actor

Collin Farrell - Saving Mr. Banks (2013)



So, nomorefrostbite would slap me if I didn't include this. Collin Farrell's performance as P.L. Travers' father Travers Goff was criminally underlooked. Goff was an alcoholic and an unsuccessful banker, with a suicidal wife, raising his family with love and storytelling, the best he could in Australia in the mid 1900's, tragically succumbing to his own inner demons. Goff would become the inspiration for Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins. Saving Mr Banks takes some liberties with the material (showing a stunt at a fair with a tipsy Goff being the inspiration for the Fidelity Fiduciary number, as well as Travers sobbing at the film's premiere thinking of her father, rather than being mortified at what she perceived as an ill fated hatchet job on her beloved book. While not a major character entirely, Farrell brings a warmth to the role that unfortunately was passed by, as fuckface rapist Jared Leto won that year for Dallas Buyers Club, and if you aren't emotionally dead inside after seeing Farrell's performance, you have no soul.

Best Actress

Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher (2001)



You didn't think I wasn't not going to include her did you? Before Emma Stone stole her Oscar, Huppert was overlooked for her role in the erotic psychological thriller The Piano Teacher. Based on the French novel of the same name, The Piano Teacher is about a repressed and horny piano teacher living with her shrewish mother in Vienna. One of her conservatory students decides to seduce her, and the two begin a torrid love affair that spirals out of control. Erika is into S&M, so you can guess where this goes, and yes, it is incredibly fucked up. This, like Other People, is not an easy film to get through, though for vastly different reasons; Fifty Shades this is not, although, interestingly enough a year later we would get Secretary, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader. Huppert's performance is raw and powerful, and it has been cited by both Nicole Kidman and Jessica Chastain as being an influence on both of their work as actresses.

Best Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler (2014)



For all the Jake fans out there. Many many cried fowl when Jake Gyllenhaal was snubbed for his role in the American thriller Nightcrawler, which is not to be confused with the comic book character of the same name. As a creepy voyeur-esque cameraman who prowls the streets filming in nocturne, he is equal parts terrifying as fuck and eerie as hell. The film is also a welcome return for Rene Russo, after she got a raw deal as Thor's mother in the Marvel film series of the same name. Gylleenhaal's performance is said to be one of the best of his career, surpassing Brokeback Mountain and Donnie Darko for some. It makes sense he would get a nomination, no? Sadly the Academy was on something, because the only nomination Nightcrawler ever got was for Best Original Screenplay.

Best Foreign Film

The Handmaiden (2016)



Before Thelma came along, The Handmaiden was the favorite lesbian film of the decade, right mammary_glands? Park Chan-Wook's adaptation of The Fingersmith was met with so many alocades, it was gaurenteed for an Academy Award. Until it wasn't....Korea decided not to submit it. The film is a beautiful love story of two women trapped in a class society with some uncomfortable moments (from the men), but it is a beautiful tale with fabulous costumes and scenery. The sex scenes are not gratuitous in any way, and, unlike Blue is the Warmest Color, Chan-Wook made sure that the scenes were filmed on a closed set with only female staff present, something that should be done every time, but isn't, because sexism. Personally I would have liked a written adaptation to accompany the film, a rewrite of The Fingersmith but as The Handmaiden, but the film is fantastic enough itself, and its a shame this film wasn't nominated, with the award deservedly going to The Salesman.

Best Costume Design

Belle (2014)



The one I am most upset about is Belle. Before San Junipero, Gugu Mbatha-Raw was best known for her performance in this criminally underrated period drama. Belle was snubbed for everything. Screenplay, costume design, best actress for Gugu Mbatha-Raw, need I continue? This story, about Dido Elizabeth Belle, the multiracial daughter of an aristocrat in 18th century England, comes complete with extravagant costumes and jewelry. Gugu gives one of the best performances she's ever done, and I would have liked to have seen a nomination for her. But the costumes...oh my god the costumes. I cannot stress enough how fabulous they are. The award went to Mad Max: Fury Road, which is okay, but honestly....it should have gone to Belle.

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