21 Black Futures a series of monologues by Black writers starring Black actors which Calgary arts and theatre critic Jenna Shummoogum said is vital to overcoming the overrepresentation of white actors in Canadian theatre.
And a recent wave of transgender representation in the media including Canadian photographer Wynne Neilly s Time magazine photo of Elliot Page is beginning to challenge
conventional beauty norms in the face of alarming rates of hate crimes against gender-diverse people.
Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke about the importance of representation, tweeting that we should continue to #SeekMore representation in the stories on our screens, after
Kim s Convenience left the air.
The hypersexualization of Asian women is not new, Cho said, and in fact directly contributes to the violence perpetrated against them. Cho explained Hollywood and the television industry have a history of portraying Asian women as sex objects, one-dimensional model minorities, or not at all. We ve gone from invisible to untouchable, she said. And those two combinations are adding to a dehumanizing effect, because either we re superhuman, or we re not there.
A history of hypersexualization
Film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu has been looking at that trend for years. In her book
The Hypersexuality of Race, she documented how the trend of servile submissives, suffering diminutive Asian women took root in early mass culture through works such as
Author of the article: Travis Dosser
Publishing date: Feb 16, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 2 minute read • Andrew Bushell, who grew up in Sherwood Park, moved to Toronto to pursue acting full time and has been making a name for himself. Bushell was cast to the CityTV sitcom Second Jen, which is in its third season. Photo Supplied
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An actor who grew up in Sherwood Park has hit his stride when it comes to small-screen success.
Andrew Bushell moved to Toronto to pursue acting full-time and has been making a name for himself. Most recently, Bushell was cast on the sitcom
Second Jen, which is in its third season on
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propublica reported on a facebook group for migrant deaths these posts are completely inappropriate and contrary to the honor, and integrity i see and expect from our agents day in and day out but get this in a new piece out today, the intercept found that not only was provost a member of that same facebook group, she event commented on a post, albeit not any racist or sexist content she has since left the group here with me to talk what has gone so wrong with the culture at cbp and jed budd ryan, i want to come to you in a second jen, i want to begin with you. you worked for cbp you served as an agent what is your reaction to what we re learning now and what we re see manage the images, the vice president today in the oig reports? first i need to be clear that i was a border patrol agent