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Isha Aran
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Isha is a staff reporter who covers pop culture, representation in media, and your new faves.

I have watched these young men grow from “just another kpop band” (and there’s nothing wrong with that, I love me some Shin-EE) into something that either stretches the boundaries of kpop and just becomes something altogether different. They write (and their songs are about more than girls, school, and parties), they Read more

Life was grand for the brothers of Delta Iota Kappa. The only concerns in life any of them expressed on the morning of the Derby when they all decided to wear RompHims was one brother asking “Where are you guys planning on keeping your Quaaludes in this thing?”
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Rompers are comfortable as hell, I endorse the everliving shit outta anyone wearing them that wants to. Read more

In Season 2 he gets a hosting gig on a successful Food Channel type show. So you gotta figure he’s make six figures from that. Plus even if his scenes were edited out of that sci-fi movie in Season 1, he still got paid for it. Plus his commercial gigs. You gotta figure he’s pulling in $250K/year at least. Read more

There are zero reasons to hate him or to even mildly dislike him, really. Read more

Off topic a little, but this reminds me of a conversation I recently got into with a man from India. He was in the states for our convention and Indian culture came up in conversation. Apparently he HATED the fact that second or third generation Indian-Americans called Indian culture their culture. He insisted that Read more

Yes. You are 100% right. There has literally never been any other immigrant community in the history of the United States that celebrated the culture of the immigrant community it came from. That’s why Budweiser beer is only a small Czech brewery since all German immigrants to the United States renamed themselves all Read more

What a great interview. The TV and Film world needs more of her, stat!!! Read more

Thanks for this recommendation! Not sure I’ll ever see it playing in Charlotte NC (okay pretty sure I won’t absolutely certain I won’t) but I’ll keep an eye out for it online. Read more

“Gonna suck on voting rights until they pop.” Read more

Well, it’s, ah......certainly a.....well, a start, anyway. In a way. Less of a ‘rally to the cause!’ sort of way, and more of a ‘let’s bone ourselves senseless!’ sort, but that’s okay.
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There’s a great collection of essays titled The Revolution Will Not Be Funded that explores the ways in which energy for radical change is co-opted by the capitalist status quo. It’s out of print, so the pricing on hard copies is crazy, but it’s now available on Kindle. A detailed overview here.
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I get the wariness. Actors are by nature self-promoting and we always have to do the ally assessment. But are we really going to blame a guy for couching his opinions by acknowledging his privilege and citing his sources? That seems legitimately thoughtful and potentially more conducive to a nuanced conversation that Read more

When someone asked about his status as a“woke bae,” he informed everyone that white people shouldn’t call each other “woke” because it’s appropriation, and then paused.

Vice President, Global Male Groomingis about as far as you go when youve got almost all of it, but you dont pay enough attention to details like ear and nose hair. Read more

“You’re never really woke,” he said. “You’re always awaking.”