Tag: diversity

It’s surprising when stodgy institutions award progressive artists, and surprises, even good ones, are alarming — so we immediately burden the winners with the weight of symbolism.

When you read “influencer,” do you think “white woman”? That’s not a surprise: the stereotypes originally established offline are reaffirmed on social media by the same systems.

Are you really achieving representation for your child with special needs if you’re only sharing the upbeat, attractive photos on social media?

Trying so hard to set trends for the future, fashion’s institutions can’t stop stumbling over the past (and the present).

Poverty and a lack of diversity are just a couple of pitfalls Jacqueline Alnes explores in this list.

Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.

Three million women tuned in last year. Here’s why.

Cora Harrington’s first book, In Intimate Detail, is an accessible, inclusive guide to undergarments.

When a company decides to “celebrate diversity,” who’s the party for?

Stories about diversity in the comic books industry.

It’s not news that equal representation in the media has a long way to go. As Nicole Soojung Callahan put it, “I wanted to know what this lack of representation — and the slow but (one hopes) steady ascent to better representation — looks like to someone inside the industry.”

Northwestern University’s Greek-life population resembles what you see at most other private schools: white and well-off

“There often is a ‘tone’ in writing about the poor. There is a presumption that people of a certain class are mired in misery.”