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Dana (Not Scully)
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Advocate for representation in media 📺, under the law ⚖️, & at the ballot box 🗳(she/her) | Not a medical doctor.
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Dana (Not Scully)
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How lucky we all were to share a galaxy with Carrie Fisher for as long as we each did, and how lucky people like me—mentally ill, fucked up, loud women without filters—were to be shown that we should not be ashamed, and that it was possible to make a masterpiece of the mess.
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Nina Metz
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I’ve been a broken record about the this: TV is awash in copaganda … and it’s not going anywhere for the time being. But what if networks/streamers also greenlit shows that imagined what abolition might look like?
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Bree Newsome Bass
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An inability to imagine a world without police doesn’t make you practical or insightful. It makes you very similar to people who couldn’t imagine a world without chattel slavery
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Kimberlé Crenshaw
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We should not need to see graphic video of a Black person being killed by police to know that Black Lives Matter. Tyre Nichols should be alive today, and our hearts are with his family, friends and community.
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The New York Times
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In one video, Tyre Nichols is shown on the ground with officers around him, and he can be heard repeatedly screaming: “Mom, Mom, Mom.” Lawyers have said that his mother’s home was about 100 yards away from where he was beaten. nyti.ms/3HE7apV
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Dana (Not Scully)
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Honestly, if you’ve been watching SVU for 24 years, you saw it coming. For a show that tries to be a voice for many fans, it also spends a lot of time fucking with them. It’s weird and unhealthy. And we keep coming back, ironically.
Dana (Not Scully)
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If Roots aired today, it would be on a streaming service that limited the viewership to a far narrower audience. It would not be an event that united households across the country. And it would not star an unknown kid from USC who would go on to make reading a form of magic.
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On This Day: January 23, 1977 “Roots” aired as a television mini-series. Based on the book by Alex Haley, “Roots” introduced viewers to Kunta Kinte and the saga of a generations of African American forced to endure slavery and its aftermath.
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In case this wasn’t clear to anyone, “Hunters” is a very inaccurate depiction of international criminal law. Like, wildly fucking inaccurate.
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Elie Mystal
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The New York Senate judiciary committee has rejected Gov Hochul’s anti-choice, anti-labor, anti-“dark skinned” black jurors choice for chief judge of New York, Hector LaSalle. So I guess Hochul made an ass of herself on MLK day for nothing.
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LaSalle Is Rejected by New York Senate Panel in a 10-9 Vote
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s choice of Justice Hector LaSalle to become the state’s top judge caused an intraparty Democratic battle that divided a judicial hearing on Wednesday.
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Dana (Not Scully)
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A new outfit and hairstyle for Troi, because women must be dressed to appear as close to physically nonexistent as possible. While also in an outfit that has giant arrows pointing at the two parts that are permissible.
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Troi attempting to pair herself off with Riker to explore Farpoint, which be rebuffs, is another instance of casting Troi’s emotions (not letting go of her “Imzadi”) as more important to her than her job, whereas he maintains the “rational” label.
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Dana (Not Scully)
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Meanwhile, at Farpoint, Crusher, an actual fucking scientist, has to be pointed to what’s wrong by Riker and her tween son. Kinda seems like, as an actual fucking scientist, she might’ve caught it first.
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Dana (Not Scully)
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I can appreciate casting Picard as the moral center, but the way it was done cast Troi and Yar as little more than damsels in distress. It primes viewers to see them both as extraneous and reinforces the idea that women cannot lead. Or fight.
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Ep 1 Notes: Troi’s go-go dancer outfit would be enough said for how the show started out viewing women, if only I didn’t know that Roddenberry had intended her to have four breasts and be “eye candy.” Which I think we can all agree is what we want in a therapist.
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(This should not be viewed as anything but an exercise in examining the underrepresentation of women behind the scenes. It doesn't even touch on the racial disparities or abysmal lack of of queer, disabled, and other minority representation. It's just a baseline of inequity.)
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This head thunking brought to you by checking the stats on "Star Trek," which took until episode 54 of "The Next Generation," entitled "Booby Trap," dir. Gabrielle Beaumont. Besides Beaumont, Gates McFadden is the only other woman to have directed an ep of the series.
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