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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?
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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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Feike

@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

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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.

The cover of the Maztica Boxed Set, showing an indigenous woman and a pseudo-Conquistator above an Aztec-style pyramid.
#ttrpg#Mesoamerica#representation
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Windspeaker.com

“We’re not tokens. We are not there to be performative in the window for corporations that want to look good that they’ve recruited one of our people.”

#Indigenous #business #representation

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Windspeaker.comIndigenous people serving on boards are ‘not mascots’, Jamieson tells conference goersWhenever Roberta Jamieson speaks, people pay close attention to her insightful words. Such was the case on April 29, when Jamieson, a member of Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario, was a panelist during a session at the First Nations Major Projects Coalition (FNMPC) conference in Toronto. Jamieson, the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a law degree, spoke on a panel titled Stronger Boards, Smarter Business: The Case for Indigenous Representation in Corporate Leadership.
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Of all the trends at the fall runway shows, including the uptick in fur (or fur-alike) clothing, the rise of clothing with built-in power curves and the preponderance of black leather, the single most ubiquitous one was the worst: the erosion of size inclusivity.

Ironically, as fashion embraces (and creates) faux womanly figures by design, the actual bodies inside the clothes are shrinking."

🎁: nytimes.com/2025/03/20/style/u

The New York Times · Models in the Era of Ozempic: Why Ultrathin Is Still inBy Vanessa Friedman
#fashion#models#size
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WYM Mod

Is accountability in politics diminishing? Rep. Drunken Van Orden faces backlash for dodging town halls, while Rep. Mark Pocan hosts a successful meeting, highlighting the need for real engagement. Van Orden's last-minute virtual town hall flopped, drawing fire from Rachel Maddow. This incident raises critical questions about representation and accessibility. Discover the full account of this political theater. Read more [here](crooksandliars.com/2025/03/mad). #Politics #Engagement #Representation

Crooks and Liars · Maddow Taunts Van Orden For His Virtual Town Hall FlopBy Chris capper Liebenthal
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