Is the Academy’s Push for Representation a Template for Our Politics? (Guest Blog)
Women can have greater political representation if our elections employ gender quotas and fair representation voting, writes Kaycie Goral
Kaycie Goral
Guest Writer | May 1, 2021 @ 4:14 PM
For the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, two women were nominated for the Best Director.
We wouldn’t blame anyone for a lack of wholehearted celebration during this award seasons, especially when considering last year’s reckoning on racial justice and the not-too-distant #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite movements still ring true. But hear us out…
The 93rd Academy Awards — a postponed mélange of extravagance and entitlement, placed against a backdrop of national and economic crisis — might be a fruitful test for establishing lasting and sustainable political reform.