Will Congress Have Its First Transgender Representative in 2024?
LOS ANGELES, Calif. | The 2022 elections commemorated many political milestones for the LGBTQ community, including the number of transgender candidates increasing by 100% since 2020.
Ethnicity · Interviews · Race · Sex
Meet Yola Lu: How A Bucket List Item Turned Into a Career
The recent breakthrough of Ronny Chieng’s Speakeasy generated more public interest in Asian American comedians. In this article, I sit…
Ethnicity · Interviews · Race
Meet Smrithi Upadhyayula: An Informative Interview on Publishing
In a previous article I published on Balance Now, I analyzed the representation of Asian Americans in the U.S. publishing…
How Represented are Asian Americans in the U.S. Publishing Industry?
Recent monumental social events such as the Stop AAPI Hate movement and the latest Marvel blockbuster movie, Shang-Chi and the…
How Diversity in Casting Changes The Story of Waitress
Diverse casting in previous white roles can expand on stories and create more spaces for actors of colour in the…
Horror & Corporatized Feminism, part 3
Simply Men Bob Clark’s 1974 horror masterpiece Black Christmas has been remade twice: once in 2006 by Glen Morgan and…
Ethnicity · Movies · National Origin · Race
Adoptees Don’t Need to be Saved, Even In Hollywood Films
There are hundreds of books and films with plots focused on adoption, but it is easy to neglect the importance of focusing on the adoptee rather than their family.
The Rise of Female Rage Fiction
In the last few years, the term “female rage fiction,” or “feminist rage fiction,” has been coined by bookstores, book…
How Disability-Friendly Are Broadway Theatres?
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The Relationship Between Dystopian Fiction and People of Colour
The unjust society written in young adult dystopian fiction can very much be our own world told through the wrong…