Category: EE
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Insider’s Marginal Section, Voices Of Color, Highlights first Asian American Miss Texas
Pulled from her main website, Miss Bishop says, I’m the 85th anniversary Miss Texas and the first Asian American woman to represent the Lone Star state. I’m a first – generation law school graduate, viral influencer, and international nonprofit CEO. We found it dope that she links her media kit to Canva. You can find her […]
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Google Immortalizes Uvalde Students, One of Whom Submitted A Cartoon Which is Now A Google Doodle
My San Antonio is breaking this story. We recently shared a photo gallery showing the history of American school shooting. Let the words of little Alithia, be a light in the face of darkness. “I want the world to see my art and show the world what I can do,”…..“I want people to be happy […]
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Artist Slash Activist Tee Slaves Drops First Single off Her Next Musical Project Disconnected, get money out now
She most recently sat down with The Skimm to discuss the current events surrounding abortion rights. Read her story here. She is working on the music video for her latest song titled ‘get money’. Get Money is the lead single off Tee Slave’s next tape, Disconnected. On the track, she mocks the rudimentary ‘get money’ […]
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TMI Project Shines Light On Women’s Abortion Stories On The Anniversary of Roe vs Wade, Watch This Interview Hosted By On The Ground Level Podcast With Cast + Crew
About Tmi Project: Since 2010, TMI Project has led more than 100 true storytelling workshops and staged live storytelling performances by nearly 2,000 storytellers, which have been presented to audiences of nearly 200,000 people in schools, colleges, prisons, mental health clinics, theaters, community centers, the United Nations and online. https://www.tmiproject.org/ Our cofounder Tahyira Savanna has […]
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#WORLDOFPODCASTS Tahyira Savanna Chats Covid-19 Misinformation
Being educated feels like being under attack these days. Tahyira explains working in NYC venues during the vax mandate. She also starred as Tanasia, a pan sexual Black woman in love with a trans female named Frankie in It’s An Italian Thing. No, It’s A Black Thing. Welcome to October!
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Filmmaker Spotlight: Michaela Coel
Original story: https://www.castingnetworks.com/news/filmmaker-spotlight-michaela-coel/ For this installment of Filmmaker Spotlight, we’re featuring the showrunner, writer, co-director and star of HBO’s limited series, I May Destroy You, which recently received nine Emmy nominations. At just 33 years of age, Michaela Coel has seen much success as a creator, vulnerably and transparently pulling from her personal experience to craft impactful […]
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Empowering Black Voices Via Vocal, Written By Sierra Ginae
Find the author: https://vocal.media/authors/sierra-ginae Dedicated to myself and other young black women! I am Black. The darkest color on the wheel; The complete absorption of light. And despite the color I may lack, I will always be unapologetically Black. I am defined by history. I am defined by diversity. I am defined by flashbacks. I am unapologetically Black. Associated […]
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An Autistic Woman’s Battle with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Once she became 25, Rosie Ashcraft felt more pain than ever before. An indie-pop singer who goes by the name Scarlit Rose was living her life making music and raising her two sons. Out of nowhere, she lost the stability in her spine and was desperate for answers. In her case, misdiagnosis nearly cost the […]
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Dear Covid
Dear Covid, How have you been? I know that it has been a few months and we got to know each other. I got to know your strengths. You are very easy to catch, many lives have been taken by you, and you cause so many symptoms of a cold or flu. The list keeps […]
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Enticing Moments
Three years ago, when I moved from NY to CA, I met the guys that make up Action Studios. Back then they were a rag tag group working out of their living room trying to build a company. Now, they still work out of their living room but they understand more of what they want […]
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales
“Wow, a mainstream super hero who looks like me.” That was my first thought when starting the video game “Spider-Man: Miles Morales”. Miles hails form the Bronx but in this story is coping with a move to Harlem after the death of his father. We find him still learning the way of the web from […]
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Not in Control
Do you find yourself, or have you ever found yourself, feeling incredibly disconnected and out of control with what’s going on around you that you think, “What am I even doing here?” 2020 has been many things, but forgiving isn’t one of them. With every new month/week/day/hour, something happens to shake up our sense of […]
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World of Podcasts: “New Age Renaissance”
In the podcast “New Age Renaissance” you’ll find: poetry, short story originals and some music compositions. It’s kind of intended to be, “a little bit of everything”. Most of the talks and stories are based around some form of informal philosophy. The overall, continued theme, is unity through diversity. Although the podcast sits at only […]
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Are We All A**Holes?
You know what sucks? A few days ago I was hit with the idea that, to someone somewhere, I’m the bad guy. Somebody has, or will, see me as a negative force in their life. No matter what I try to do or say, I will be the antagonist to their hero journey. Admittedly, that […]
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Track Electoral Votes With 270toWin, Hillary Is An Electoral Voter for New York
The Electoral College is comprised of 538 delegates: People who cast the votes that formally elect the president. It’s a system that tends to give smaller states a larger voice in the process of electing the president, and one that Clinton has publicly opposed in the past. We’re using https://www.270towin.com/ to pull data points from this voting season.
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“Rialto” Movie Review
I had the pleasure of interviewing the director of “Rialto”, Peter Mackie Burns, after watching the film. Before I share his answers to questions and insights from our chat, I’ll share with you a bit about the movie and how its unexpected journey of responsibility resonates from start to finish. (Free of spoilers, of course). […]
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Morality
Morality: principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. (Webster’s Dictionary). (Or: normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational people. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The definition of morality as a whole is important, but words that stick out […]
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Disappointment and Regret
To be honest, it’s hard not to feel as though disappointment and regret are one-in the same. Beginning to write this, I’m still not entirely sure I know where I’m going with this piece. In the end it might only be filled with disappointment and regret, and still somehow I think that’s the point. Disappointment […]
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Gray Beauty
It’s easy to feel inspired by color, it’s easy to feel some sense of emotion brought on by vibrancy. Most of the time in life, we tend to see things as one way or the other: black and white, good and bad, law and order. We learn early that there aren’t really shades to living. […]
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The Sports World Has Shut Down. Again
On March 11 earlier this year, the NBA suspended the season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. Soon after, the NHL suspended its season, the NCAA March Madness tournament never happened, and nearly the entire international sports world slowed to a halt, all due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, on […]
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