Advertising that objectifies women is pretty much the norm for everything from shampoo ads to weight loss plans.

I’m a firm believer that media representation has a huge impact on how we see the world.

It’s pretty clear that Hawkeye is the most useless Avenger, but that didn’t stop Jeremy Renner from trying to convince us otherwise on The Tonight Show. To the tune of… Read the rest of the article: Jeremy Renner tries to convince us Hawkeye isn’t lame via song

Agent Carter star Hayley Atwell is an all-around delightful human

http://leffew4116.tumblr.com/post/115985493738/im-posting-this-everywhere-but-i-cant-stop And I love this dog! Check out the owner's Tumblr for more photos and videos. She emphasizes that Riven loves going down slides and wasn't hurt when she went… Read the rest of the article: This dog loves playgrounds

Media representation has a huge impact on how we see the world.

Black Youth Project 100 is an amazing activist group fighting for racial justice across the country.

DeRay McKesson has been a crucial voice in the Black Lives Matter movement

I collected various points of view on make-up a few weeks ago, and here’s one more to add to the collection.

My friend and colleague Pilot Viruet published a wonderful essay on Medium called “Black Exhaustion”.

This simple cartoon speaks volumes about the media’s tendency to demonize black people and sympathize with white people.

As tensions rise in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, yet another black victim of police brutality, I’ve noticed that some well-meaning (usually white) people have a tendency to… Read the rest of the article: A different kind of Martin Luther King, Jr. quote

Cut Video has been releasing these awesome 100 Years Of Beauty videos for a while now

Sesame Street always kills it when it comes to movie parodies

Why are there are so few female directors working in Hollywood? Could it be the raging sexism that occurs at every level of production?

Stephen Hawking appeared via hologram at the Sydney Opera House this weekend and he offered some surprisingly sweet words of comfort to Directioners.

Todrick Hall and Shoshana Bean prove ‘90s hip-hop and ‘90s Disney films pair perfectly together in this fabulous mash-up video.

Legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki is the creative force behind fantastic animated films like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle.

Chicago artist Ashley A. Woods created these portraits as a submission for an upcoming comic book anthology called APB: Artists Against Police Brutality.

Super cute or kind of creepy? You decide!