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#representation

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from John Adams

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this Representative Assembly. It should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them. That it may be the interest of this Assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or in other words equal interest among the people should have equal interest in it. Great care should be taken to effect this, and to prevent unfair, partial, and corrupt elections.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04) to George Wythe, “Thoughts on Government”

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/77846/

#quote#quotes#quotation
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Elena Rossini

https://elenarossini.com/2024/03/the-power-of-visibility-redux/

Two years ago, around the time my daughter turned one, I released a short film made in collaboration with Mimi Anagli: The Power of Visibility. In the 4 minute film, we argued that women working in film (directors, screenwriters, producers and cinematographers) are largely underrepresented and underestimated. Popular media outlets in 2022 still mostly celebrated male filmmakers. Why was this a problem? Women working in film – or aspiring to – have a hard time being taken seriously and getting funding for their projects.

We released the film at the end of January 2022, along with an op-ed in Women & Hollywood: “How the World’s Largest Search Engine Can Help Fix Hollywood’s Representation Problem”.

Mimi and I wrote:

Imagine this: you are a 14-year-old with a passion for movies and photography. Maybe one day you could make a career out of it, becoming a cinematographer. You are curious to see examples of notable people working in the industry. So you go on Google and search for “cinematographer.” At the top of the page you see a carousel of 51 Google cards with photos and names of famous directors of photography. Most of them are white. All of them are male, except for a few cards. As an African American girl, you implicitly get the message that maybe this field is not for you — nobody who looks like you appears in the results. If only you could have seen or read about Kira Kelly — the first Black woman invited to join the ASC in 2020, best known for her work on Ava DuVernay’s “13th” and HBO’s “Insecure.”

Watch our short film The Power of Visibility (running time: 4 minutes):

Rewind: my incredible visibility in Google search results (2019-2022)

Searching for “film director” and seeing which results pop up in Google Images is something I have been doing routinely for years.

Click here to read the full story

#collaboration#genderGap#Google
Sexabled

🧵 Ihr wollt unsere Geschichten – aber nicht unsere Sichtbarkeit? Ernsthaft?!

Ich bin so müde davon.
Wirklich.
Immer wieder kommen Journalist*innen mit der Bitte: „Erzähl uns deine Geschichte. Erzähl uns, wie es ist, mehrfach diskriminiert zu werden. Wir wollen deine Perspektive. Die ist so wichtig.“⬇️

#Trans#OwnVoices#TransIsBeautiful
Prism & Pen

Within seconds of being introduced to actor Corwin Hawkins’ Wayman Harrington, a supporting character in A Low Down Dirty Shame, several thing are made clear about him: He’s loud, he’s gay, and for some — namely disgraced detective and lead character Andre Shame (Keenan Ivory Wayans) — he’s a lot to get used to.
medium.com/prismnpen/no-more-s

Prism & Pen · Reclaiming Wayman: No More 'Shame' | Prism & PenBy Jonathan Apollo
#LGBTQ#Gay#Representation
Thomas Barrio

Bernard Manin : Les ambiguïtés du gouvernement représentatif

🗳️ Bernard #Manin analyse le #GouvernementReprésentatif : plasticité, biais aristocratique de l’ #élection, absence de #MandatImpératif. Un système qui n’est ni #DémocratieDirecte, ni #autogouvernement du peuple. #politique #démocratie #représentation Dans Principes du gouvernement représentatif, Bernard Manin propose une analyse lucide et nuancée des fondements et des limites du régime représentatif, en…

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Homo Hortus · Bernard Manin : Les ambiguïtés du gouvernement représentatif🗳️ Bernard #Manin analyse le #GouvernementReprésentatif : plasticité, biais aristocratique de l’ #élection, absence de #MandatImpératif. Un système qui n’est ni #DémocratieDirecte, ni #autogouverne…
Prism & Pen

I feel such a hunger for stories about #queer adults, for whom coming out is firmly in the rearview mirror and bullying is no longer an issue… but who still deal with the innumerable other conflicts any human being can face.
Of course, a handful of films and shows do that very well… but what if you want more than a handful? How do you find them? Where do you dig?
medium.com/prismnpen/why-are-t

Prism & Pen · Why Are There Hardly Any LGBTQ+ Adults on TV and in the Movies?By James Patrick Nelson
#LGBTQ#Television#Film
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@LevZadov @_Dreugan_ @nerb @msb @randahl
#Capitalism is the worker who doesn't own their own method of production. Their boss, the #capitalist, owns the machine or tool which the #worker uses to make products or deliver services.

This is true in free-market capitalism, #socialism and #communism.

What makes socialism different to communism, is that communists want to achieve their goals with #dictatorship and #suppression, and socialists with #democracy, #representation and personal freedom

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Will Tuladhar-Douglas

Ordinarily I don't read much USA journalism, but the letters page today (Sunday) in the Washington Post has a few pungent pieces about, and for, us #actuallyautistic folks. There's even a letter from my sister about our family - a letter which is worth gold to my kids, who struggle to find rich, postive images of autistic people here in Scotland, too. And I am also sure my sister -- who is very sensitive to the complex and playful genderings in our family -- grimaced when she chose to write 'nieces and nephews'. She's been a brilliant ally all the way along.

I guess it would have been good to have representation from us autistic folk there on the page too, but under present circumstances in the USA it wouldn't be safe to 'out' oneself as autistic in an letter critical of the government.

#autism
#family
#representation
#lists
#repression

Jürgen Hubert

#WritersCoffeeClub 8 May. Give an example of a project you’ve had to give up on.

Well, that requires some explanation.

Back in the early 1990s, TSR was on a "National Geographic" trip and produced a number of expansions for their #ForgottenRealms setting for #DnD which were basically fantasy counterpart cultures to real world cultures.

#Maztica , based on Mesoamerican cultures, was arguably the worst of these. The initial premise was basically a fantasy replay of Cortez' conquests of the #Aztec Empire, and it went worse from there - the locals basically had little agency of their own, their magic and technology was weaker than that of the "Mighty Whitey" invaders, and so forth.

My concept was to use the massive time skip between the 2E and the 5E version of the Realms to update the setting to a modern, postcolonial area, and give the locals their dignity back and make them the heroes of their own stories, instead of local color for explorers from mainland Faerun.

I did a lot of concept work I am still proud of and wanted to publish something on the Dungeon Master's Guild. But in the end, I wasn't sure that the original settings deserved being redone in that manner - and as a white European, I am probably not the best person to do it.

#ttrpg#Mesoamerica#representation
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