Category: Blog
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Jennifer Lawrence- The Taylor Swift Effect and X-Men Apocalypse
After this latest trailer the Suicide Squad has quickly moved to the #2 spot of my most anticipated comic book film of 2016. Deadpool is still #1 and it comes out in less than a month so Suicide Squad will occupy my #1 spot for most of the year. X-Men’s themes of discrimination and oppression…
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Preacher Review
Written By Cadeem Lalor After wrapping up 100 Bullets, I decided to move on to Preacher. Preacher follows Jesse Custer, a preacher in the Texas town of Annville. During a service, a supernatural spirit named “Genesis” possesses Jesse and kills the entire congregation. Jesse later learns that the Genesis is the offspring of an angel…
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Abigail Fisher -#StayMadAbbey, racism and affirmative action
“If you’re a person of color, the racism beat is also a professional commitment to defending your right and the right of people like you to be treated with consideration to an audience filled with readers champing at the bit to call you nothing but a nigger playing the race card.”-Cord Jefferson I have never…
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The Final Frontier For Racism
As one article put it, it is the last bastion of racism,What is it you ask?Is it employment discrimination or housing discrimination?No, those things do exist, and they are often justified by racists,But at the very least employment discrimination and housing discrimination are explicitly illegal.No one can say in court that it was not racist…
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Straight Outta Compton and Minorities in Lead Roles
If you have been watching my Twitter or Facebook feed you know I can’t stop talking about how awesome Straight Outta Compton was. The film wasn’t perfect by any means, it dragged slightly at points and was also brought down by O’Shea Jackson Jr, who may resemble his father well but was one of the…
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Memory Catcher is Published
In all the excitement of finally getting something published, I just realized I forgot to post it here. I will also be getting back to regular blog posts. I know they’ve been sporadic over the past two months. “Memory Catcher” began as my sixth book but I took a break from the project to edit…
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Neighbours 2 and Heteronormativity
I checked out Neighbours 2 on Netflix a few days ago, being pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t awful. Maybe my expectations were really low or maybe I’m just a sucker for Chloe Grace Moretz. Anyways, Dave Franco’s character (Pete) is revealed as gay early in Neighbours 2. I watched a YouTube video of one of the scene where…