#representation

The people who are supposed to protect him are stalling, hedging, and centering themselves. His future is in jeopardy because the adults can’t get over their own feelings. His outburst is sudden, raw, and deeply earned.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-most-honest-thing-three-generations-says-about-being-trans-eae5ac50a42f?sk=bbf0d9e87b0985d968f75ae3e7a75b3e

#LGBTQ #QueerFilm #Transgender #ThreeGenerations #Representation

Derrière l’ambiguïté : critique radicale de la démocratie libérale selon Sartori

#Sartori défend la #démocratieLibérale comme horizon indépassable, mais son analyse occulte la #fiction de la #représentation, la #violence de la #compétition et la faiblesse du #pluralismeInstitutionnel. Quand la #démocratie se réduit au #spectacle, il faut rouvrir le #débat. #critique #postPolis #postMarxisme #postAccélération #postTravail #philosophie #libéralisme Giovanni Sartori a le…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/derriere-lambiguite-critique-radicale-de-la-democratie-liberale-selon-sartori/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/259251/ Popular filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee and author Jayne Allen host book signings in DC #BlackMen #BookSigning #Books #DC #Entertainment #JayneAllen #MalcolmD.Lee #Representation #TheBestMan #Trilogy #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://elenarossini.com/2024/03/the-power-of-visibility-redux/

Two years ago, around the time my daughter turned one, I released a short film made in collaboration with Mimi Anagli: The Power of Visibility. In the 4 minute film, we argued that women working in film (directors, screenwriters, producers and cinematographers) are largely underrepresented and underestimated. Popular media outlets in 2022 still mostly celebrated male filmmakers. Why was this a problem? Women working in film – or aspiring to – have a hard time being taken seriously and getting funding for their projects.

We released the film at the end of January 2022, along with an op-ed in Women & Hollywood: “How the World’s Largest Search Engine Can Help Fix Hollywood’s Representation Problem”.

Mimi and I wrote:

Imagine this: you are a 14-year-old with a passion for movies and photography. Maybe one day you could make a career out of it, becoming a cinematographer. You are curious to see examples of notable people working in the industry. So you go on Google and search for “cinematographer.” At the top of the page you see a carousel of 51 Google cards with photos and names of famous directors of photography. Most of them are white. All of them are male, except for a few cards. As an African American girl, you implicitly get the message that maybe this field is not for you — nobody who looks like you appears in the results. If only you could have seen or read about Kira Kelly — the first Black woman invited to join the ASC in 2020, best known for her work on Ava DuVernay’s “13th” and HBO’s “Insecure.”

Watch our short film The Power of Visibility (running time: 4 minutes):

Rewind: my incredible visibility in Google search results (2019-2022)

Searching for “film director” and seeing which results pop up in Google Images is something I have been doing routinely for years.

Click here to read the full story

#collaboration #genderGap #Google #GoogleImages #MimiAnagli #power #representation #representationMatters #ThePowerOfVisibility #Visibility

Niki Johnson gave insights on the gender-biased discourse about political representation in #Uruguay, drawing on #DiscourseTheory. #DNC6 #Representation

De la simulation politique à l’algocratie : l’hyperréalité comme nouveau terrain du contrôle

Après le #spectacle (#Debord), l’#hyperréalité (#Baudrillard) s’impose : le #politique n’est plus représenté, mais simulé, prédit, manipulé par les #algorithmes. La #sociétéDeContrôle devient #algocratie, où l’#incertitude est pilotée et la #résistance, plus difficile à #penser. #contrôle #philosophie #pilotage #manipulation #prédiction #simulation #représentation…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/de-la-simulation-politique-a-lalgocratie-lhyperrealite-comme-nouveau-terrain-du-controle/

"KPop Demon Hunters is currently the most streamed movie on Netflix globally, clocking up more than 33 million views in just two weeks...The film's soundtrack shot into the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in the US, making it the highest debut for a soundtrack so far this year."

The music is catchy!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl1zyv1y2o

#music #kpop #idol #entertainment #films #movies #representation #PopCulture #PopMusic #BTS #blackpink

Seen on Facebook (of course)... and #AI

Bearish times for #Democracy ...

And a big beautiful end-times for #environment, #civilization as we've known it, #rights, #environment, #health, #science, #education, #seniors, #truth, #rights #representation #decency

What do they know? For sure, they caught our attention. We need to be bearish on #TrumpVirus #fascism #NoKings #bears

A geometric link: Convexity may bridge human & machine intelligence
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-geometric-link-convexity-bridge-human.html

On convex decision regions in deep network representations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60809-y

Convexity (algebraic geometry)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convexity_(algebraic_geometry)

#ML #Representation Learning #convexity #AbstractAlgebra #DeepLearning

Tirage au sort et révocation : sur la voie de la souveraineté populaire selon Rousseau

#TirageAuSort et #révocation ne réalisent pas la #souverainetéPopulaire, mais nous mettent sur sa voie (#Rousseau) : ils limitent la #fiction de la #représentation (Proudhon) et la #fabrication de #passionsCollectives par les #partis (#Weil), en rendant le pouvoir plus réversible et contrôlable. #pouvoirRéversible #politique #philosophie #philosophiePolitique La proposition de…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/tirage-au-sort-et-revocation-sur-la-voie-de-la-souverainete-populaire-selon-rousseau/

Amidst the chaos, we’ve all been looking for solace wherever we can find it. And given the vicious anti-#LGBTQ+ panic that underscores so much of this political era, queer folks are especially in need of comfort and affirmation.
I would never have expected to find it in another reality TV show.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/what-do-a-trans-man-an-amputee-and-an-hiv-man-have-in-common-115e49f71007?sk=1b8d62bf1db80c3d13d1ff7c0e34925a

#RealityTV #Transgender #IKissedABoy #Representation

Věděli jste, že Planeta dinosaurů z roku 2003 je technicky prvním paleodokumentem zobrazujícím stejnopohlavní dinosauří pár? V dnešním článku vám prezentuji dva protoceratopsí samce chránící své hnízdo, a k tomu barbariadactyly z Prehistorické planety, podmanivé pterosaury se třemi gendery!

#dinosaurs #dinosaurplanet #prehistoricplanet #prehistory #documentary #nature #queer #representation #diversity #pterosaurs

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/06/queer-dinosauri-pterosauri-v.html

Did you know that Dinosaur Planet (2003) is technically the first paleo documentary to feature a same-sex dinosaur couple? In today's article, I present you two male Protoceratops defending their nest, as well as Barbariadactylus from Prehistoric Planet, a captivating pterosaur with three genders!

#dinosaurs #dinosaurplanet #prehistoricplanet #prehistory #documentary #nature #queer #representation #diversity #pterosaurs

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/06/queer-dinosauri-pterosauri-v.html

Vers une démocratie directe : repenser le mandat impératif, la représentation et la technique

#DémocratieDirecte, #MandatImpératif, #Représentation, #Technocratie... Et si on repensait nos institutions pour rapprocher le citoyen du pouvoir ? Inspirations de #Proudhon à #Arendt, enjeux du tirage au sort, de la fédération, du municipalisme, et de la réinsertion de l’économie et de la technique dans le social. Décryptage dans le billet ci-dessous ! La question du…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/vers-une-democratie-directe-repenser-le-mandat-imperatif-la-representation-et-la-technique/

@davevolek 1/8
I was waiting for a third message, sorry. Yes, the #ImperativeMandate system seems to me an important point. It could even be applied in #RepresentativeDelegation systems, perhaps. But this doesn't solve the problem of the #Citizen's distance from managing their own #City. See #Proudhon's critique of #Representation as fiction, and also #Weil's critique of #PoliticalParties, manufacturers of collective passion.

Derrière le Paravent Libéral : La Longue Domination de la Mégamachine Technocratique

#LibéralismeEconomique et #ParlementarismeReprésentatif : faux-semblants démocratiques d’une #DominationTechnocratique multi-millénaire. De l’#extermination des peuples #autochtones à l’#EmpireCognitif, la #mégamachine poursuit sa marche. #décolonial #philosophie #histoire #technocratie #PhilosophiePolitique #anticapitalisme #représentation #alternatives "Les patrons du Sénat" - Joseph…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/derriere-le-paravent-liberal-la-longue-domination-de-la-megamachine-technocratique/

#Juneteenth
#RepresentationMatters

#Marvel #DCU #MCU #DCcomics #DCEU #Superheroes #BlackSuperheroes #Representation #BlackPanther #Ironheart #Disney #GreenLantern #JohnStewart #CaptainAmerica #FATWS #MilesMorales #MonicaRambeau #Aqualad #Vixen #ComicBooks #ComicBookCharacters

Si la #vérité accessible est toujours déjà médiée par le #simulacre et le #spectacle, alors la #fiction de l’#État (ou de toute #institution) ne peut se manifester que par sa #représentation spectaculaire. Dès lors, la « vérité » de l’État, c’est d’être une fiction rendue visible par le spectacle.

#philosophie #PhilosophiePolitique

https://www.europesays.com/fr/182424/ Tous gros demain ? : la dernière représentation #actu #Actualités #demain #derniere #EU #europe #FR #France #gros #Nantes #News #PaysDeLaLoire #représentation #RépubliqueFrançaise

A while back, I was in a writing workshop. I submitted a story for critique written from a redneck POV. The instructor cautioned me to be careful about using slurs like "redneck," although she saw nothing objectionable in the content of my story.

This startled me. I was raised on the land and off the grid in rural and remote areas across Canada because my father couldn't find work. I lived in trailer parks and campgrounds, and sometimes we squatted in people's yards living in an RV. One other person in the workshop was also a self-proclaimed redneck living in US Appalachia.

I do not use "redneck" as a pejorative, and think that those who do are engaging in classism.

It makes me wonder how many redneck stories get published. I know I've had a hard time with some of my stories written in Maritimes vernacular from the POV of redneck characters. I've had an editor tell me that I need to run my story through Grammarly. So yes, there's an elitism going on when the use of vernacular is deemed "wrong." That's how folks actually talk. It should have representation. #classism #redneck #WritingCommunity #publishing #discrimination #representation