Though some speakers have begun using x in place of gender markers a or o – Latinx instead of Latina or Latino, for instance – this publisher took a different tack: “The book doesn’t use the X and instead uses an E (for example, todes instead of todas or todos, and les instead of los or las).”
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Visual Artist Wins One Step Of Court Case Against Kendrick Lamar For ‘Black Panther’ Video
The singer wanted a summary judgement on artist Lina Iris Viktor’s lawsuit against him for copying visuals from her paintings, but the judge wouldn’t grant it. “When the creators of the blockbuster film Black Panther approached her about using imagery from her “Constellations” series in the movie, she said no. She also rebuffed members of Marvel’s PR team when they came back with a similar request.” And yet … well, compare her paintings and the “All the Stars” video.
‘Chat-Fiction’ Goes Longform With A Science Fiction Story Told In Bits On Snapchat
Nothing is completely new, but this is a blend of media and writing that might change the genre: “The multimedia series … blends the chat-fiction format — presented as a text-messaging thread — with custom illustrations and a voiceover ‘reminiscent of 1940s radio dramas,’ according to Hooked. ‘Dark Matter’ is longer than Hooked’s usual fare: The pilot clocks in at about 4,700 words, with 32,000 words total for the series. Most Hooked chapters are around 1,000 words each.”
Oaxacan Musicians Use Rap And Hip Hop To Fight For Change
In Oaxaca, Mexico, rap and hip hop have been dominated by men. But women are changing the scene. Every month in the central plaza, Oaxacans can hear “a tight-knit group of women who are rapping as a way to draw attention to issues like poverty, gender inequalities and disenfranchisement of indigenous communities.”
A German Photographer In The UK Talks About The Changes In Photography, And The Effects Of Brexit
Photographer Juergen Teller: “Most of my team aren’t British and everybody is now completely depressed. I just think, ‘What the fuck am I doing? This building is here, my children are here’ – it’s a terrible moment.”
A Tennessee Theatre Concludes Its Six-Year Search For The Right Home
It’s not easy to take a theatre from a 50-seater, renting space, to a 100-seat home. That requires money and luck – and persistence, and maybe a church congregation moving out of its old home.
HBO Has Now Hired Intimacy Coordinators For Every TV Show And Movie
It’s too late to fix the early seasons of Game of Thrones, but after actor Emily Meade asked HBO to hire someone to advocate for actors during sex scenes on The Deuce, HBO did it – and “Rodis’ hiring has made such an impact that showrunner David Simon told Rolling Stone in September that he would never work without an intimacy coordinator again. Following suit, HBO has now adopted a policy whereby all of its shows and movies with intimate scenes will be staffed with an intimacy coordinator.”
Anne Lamott Didn’t Set Out To Be A ‘Guru Of Optimism’
But writers don’t get to choose what their words mean after they send them out into the world. “Kindly and self-skewering, Lamott, now 64, has been doggedly chronicling the messy stuff of life — refracting her own complicated stories of addiction and loss — in mordantly comic and sharply observed memoirs and novels for over three decades.”
An Actor And Playwright Needs A Tennis Lesson, And In Return, She Gets Her Coaches Small Parts On ‘Game Of Thrones’
Amanda Peet of The Romanoffs (and many, many other shows) wanted to get better at tennis so that a play she was writing could be more realistic. But “‘writing is easier than tennis,’ she said. ‘And that’s saying a lot.'”
Weekend Extra: Rudy Royston’s Flatbed Buggy
Royston was a drummer, but the album “makes clear that not only is he a master of his instrument but it also emphasizes that his complete musicianship allowed authorship of all of the album’s dozen tunes.”