whiteness

Reality testing, Dylan Marron and Every Single Word

Emotional Intelligence / April 23, 2019 July 18, 2019

If you ask white folks about the over-representation of white folks on screen, they will often misunderstand and/or underestimate the degree and seriousness of over-representation. Luckily we have some tools to help us with our reality testing…

Cop show Blue Bloods makes me cringe

Culture / January 5, 2015 July 14, 2019

Blue Bloods is a story of a cop family, the Reagans, in New York. And it’s a reasonably well written family drama that suffers from deeply racist, and sexist, narratives…

Rex Murphy on human rights

Journalism / October 16, 2013 July 17, 2019

Rex Murphy wasn’t the first pundit to misunderstand rights, and human rights. But he is paradigmatic. He has a thing for human rights and mentions them often.