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Fans Do Cool Things

Disney Princesses Re-Imagined As Women Of Color

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 3:31 pm, July 30th, 2012

Despite our immense love of all things Disney, we wouldn’t mind if they added a few more princesses of color — while we can’t get enough of Jasmine, Mulan, Tiana, and Pocahontas (despite that movie horrifically minimizing the impacts of colonialism), there is always more room for positive representations of women of color, especially in films that reach young girls beginning to steel themselves against a media culture that can be racist, sexist, and cruel. While we can’t exactly go back in time and influence Disney’s animators (though if we could, we totally would) we can at least squeal over these awesome race bent princesses, thanks to Tumblr user Lauren and Azaelea’s Dolls!

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I See What They Did There

Akira Looks to Hire Its First Non-White Actor: Ken Watanabe

by Susana Polo | 2:43 pm, November 23rd, 2011

It’s sad to say, but movies studios that do not use the opportunities that lie before them to cast non-white actors in roles that would be great opportunities for non-white actors to play the sorts of roles that are rarely open to them do not surprise me. I’m much more likely to blink in astonishment and delight when studios hire non-white actors to play characters who, had they just hired a white actor, no one would have otherwise blinked at. See Thor and the upcoming Man of Steel. We need a word for when you are pleasantly surprised simply because your expectations were so low.

No, what really surprises me about the Akira casting is that every step the studio makes appears to be perfectly calculated to reinforce the idea that maintaining any ties to the integral cultural setting of Akira is absolutely last on the list of priorities. However, finally, the production appears to be courting it’s first non-white actor, and Ken Watanabe is not only actually Asian, but actually Japanese, a distinction of nationality that I don’t have high hopes for Hollywood ever getting through its head.

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Bloody Good Fun

Chew to Become Showtime Series

by Jamie Frevele | 12:30 pm, March 25th, 2011

Showtime has acquired the rights to develop a new series based on Chew, the super gory, Eisner-Award-winning comic book series by John Layman and Rob Guillory. In the world of Chew, fear of avian flu has gotten so bad that the consumption of poultry is outlawed, chicken speakeasies abound, and the FDA has FBI-like powers. The story follows Tony Chu, an agent for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who is also a cibopath, meaning that when he bites into anything (or anyone), he receives glimpses of its past.

Yes, he is a confirmed local-vore vegetarian and supporter of organic food.

According to Deadline, it will be a “quirky half-hour cop show” written by Terri Hughes Burton and Ron Milbauer and directed by Stephen Hopkins (24, Californication). Not only that, but the whole production is coming from the same company that brought us The Walking Dead, Circle of Confusion. Now, about that casting …

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