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Ubisoft Can’t Have Female Characters Because “Women Are Too Difficult To Animate;” One Million Eyes Are Rolled

Ubisoft Can’t Have Female Characters Because “Women Are Too Difficult To Animate;” One Million Eyes Are Rolled

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The annual E3 conference, announcing news and debuting game footage and trailers from new and upcoming video games, is currently going on and a lot of the news so far has been great. We have some great steps forward in the representation of both women and queer people (and queer women). One of the bigger games that was highlighted was the next installment in the super popular Assassin’s Creed series, called Assassin’s Creed Unity, coming out in October. Unlike many other companies, who seem to be accepting the call to make their games more diverse, Assassin’s Creed is digging its heels in and holding on to its white male protagonist.

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If You Were My Boo: 28 Things We’d Do On a Date With Samira Wiley

If You Were My Boo: 28 Things We’d Do On a Date With Samira Wiley

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1. I would invite her to my home for a romantic string cheese & wine tasting.

2. We would go to the pub for trivia night. Then there would be a pizza.

3. I would succumb to muteness and just look at her for 25 minutes until she got uncomfortable and left.

4. We’d give scissoring another try.

5.I would take her to brunch at a cafe where we would both be hopelessly undecided between french toast…

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Kids Detained in AZ Provides Window Into Totally F*cked US Immigration System

Kids Detained in AZ Provides Window Into Totally F*cked US Immigration System

The issue of immigrant children being detained in immigrant detention centers is not exactly a new story. But this past week, an influx of children from Central America who were detained while trying to cross into the U.S. has drawn new attention to the extreme and inhuman treatment undocumented immigrants face from U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Also.Also.Also. Legos and Love Reign Supreme and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Also.Also.Also. Legos and Love Reign Supreme and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello sunshines and rainbows! This weekend I went to Pride and it was a chance not only to appreciate queer history and organizing, but also to fall in love with SO MANY PUPPIES. They were everywhere, and they were so cute! Here’s the news we missed while I was wishing I had a dog.

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+ The US Supreme Court refused to block same-sex marriages in Oregon.

“Love is the law in…

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Orphan Black Episode 208 Recap: “Variable and Full of Perturbation”

Orphan Black Episode 208 Recap: “Variable and Full of Perturbation”

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Hey Clone Rangers! Welcome to the recap of the eighth episode of season two of Orphan Black, the only show that rivals RuPaul’s Drag Race in terms of wig budget.

We open with a white van speeding through the streets before it pulls into a garage. A bald guy named Sammy is helped out of the car by a bearded bandit named Tony. Sammy’s been shot, and his dying words to Tony are that he needs to find…

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Comedy Crush: Sujata Day, Writer, Actress, App Lover

Comedy Crush: Sujata Day, Writer, Actress, App Lover

Sujata Day is a writer and actress that you might recognize from some of our favorite webseries, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and Little Horribles. She’s also appeared on television with credits that include The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 7th Heaven, and Greek.

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Credit: Duran Castro

I know a story of yours appeared in “Pieces,” which was edited by…

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Laverne Cox Returns to “Katie”, Shows How to Do a “Teachable Moment” Right

Laverne Cox Returns to “Katie”, Shows How to Do a “Teachable Moment” Right

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Today Orange is the New Black star and transgender activist Laverne Cox returned to Katie, the daytime talk show hosted by Katie Couric, for the first time since her infamous January appearance where she and transgender model and activist Carmen Carrerahad to put up with a barrage of questions about what surgeries they had had and what their genitals were like. Cox and Carrera were able to turn…

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The first time I learned about street harassment, I was taught that only I could prevent it. This was about the same time that Smokey the Bear was telling me that only I could prevent forest fires and Captain Planet told me that the power was mine to save the Earth. The world was sure entrusting a lot to seven-year-old me.

The aforementioned logic about street harassment taught me that street harassers targeted only “sluts and whores.” This overwhelmingly male population that felt the need to humiliate women were never referred to harassers, assailants, or even bullies, but instead regarded as some sort of moral authority that reminded women when they were demeaning themselves. My job was simple: if I had the self-respect or dressed properly and carried myself with dignity, my friendly neighborhood Hemline Police and Cleavage Monitors would not have to encourage me to cover myself up with their lewd comments and unwarranted advances.
“The Danger at the Intersection of Street Harassment and Compulsory Heterosexuality“ -Autostraddle (via thenoodlesoupwetaketowork)