I thought I'd post this follow up to my recent post about the controversy surrounding a school mural in Prescott, AZ. School officials bent to pressure from city councilman Steve Blair, among others, and asked the artists to lighten the faces of several kids portrayed in the mural (the figures depicted were actual students at the school). My friend ( Read more... )

This is unbelievable. WTF, Prescott?

I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about tropes and issues of gender and race in various forms of entertainment. Hopefully, I will find the time and energy to write some of my thoughts at length. In the mean time, here are a couple of links on those topics that I found interesting.

From io9, When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like ( Read more... )