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.
Hairstylist and hair designer Mia Neal says her first memory of doing hair involved playing with dolls. I played with dolls until it was weird. You know like when youâre supposed to stop? I didnât stop. I had to hide them under the bed because I was still doing their hair, she says, laughing in her car. Neal was on the phone with
Allure during a four-hour drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Hinesville, situated on the stateâs coastal plain. It s funny cause I feel like that s what I do for a living now with the wigs, you know? Somehow I made a job out of doing doll hair, she adds.
Historic rendition of Jarena Lee, the first female preacher in the A.M.E. church
Dr. Rosalyn Brookins. Courtesy of Parks Chapel A.M.E. Church.
Parks Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 476 34
th Street Oakland, California is excited to announce that Rev. Dr. Rosalynn Brookins, senior pastor was awarded the auspicious Jarena Lee Award.
Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864) was the first female authorized to preach in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. History shows she was born into a free, Black family. Lee saw the immorality of slavery. At a time period of segregation and inequity, A.M.E. Church founder Richard Allen gave her the opportunity for her voice to be heard despite the fact that there were no provisions for a female to preach. Rev. Lee showed determination to let her voice be heard and to share the holy word, despite racial and gender issues. Further, Lee was the first African American woman to
Angela Bassett, earing and fashion detail, attends the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images)
This year, with shrinking audiences and pandemic restrictions, there was a bitter irony in the fact women won more Oscars, across new and highly visible categories, than ever before.
The intimate Oscars ceremony (with only 170 VIP guests at LA’s Union Station) meant a reduced red carpet, where attendees made up for the lack of numbers by bringing colour, glamour and scale in what they wore.
Here, 5 experts comment on the most remarkable moments from the 2021 Oscars ceremony.