By Guest Contributor Restructure!, originally posted at Restructure!
Canada is an officially multicultural country, but multiculturalism does not address racism.
The Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Institution shows six stages from being a monocultural institution to becoming an anti-racist multicultural institution. Canada appears to be at Stage Three:
3. Symbolic Change: A Multicultural Institution

Makes official policy pronouncements [...]

By Guest Contributor Tiara the Merch Girl, originally published at The Merch Girl
I wrote this for AO (Adults Only) Magazine in mid-October last year, for Issue 3 that was meant to come out…now. I haven’t heard anything beyond “yes we got it”, and since some people have asked, I figure I’ll post my original article [...]

By Guest Contributor Alex Jung, originally published at RaceWire

Inconstancy, rather than a vice, has long been a strength of fashion. Empire waists, shoulder pads, and bubble skirts have all come in, out, and back again. Designers, too, fall in and out of favor with editors and the shopping elite who patronizes them. But lately, there [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
Jim Lee reached some rare air Thursday, when he was introduced as co-publisher of the renamed DC Entertainment. The move makes him the highest-ranking Asian-American working for the comics industry’s Big Two (Cuban-American Joe Quesada is Editor-In-Chief at DC’s nemesis, Marvel). It also places Lee, who has already been running [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

This is the end, my beautiful friends, the end.
- The Doors, “The End”
Keep the cameras on me.
- Lady Claire Hilton Be-Be-Benetrelli
The ratings make it increasingly likely that “Brave New World” was Heroes’ last stand. Though there’s still “hope” for a Dollhouse-like reprieve, pulling 13 million less viewers than Two And [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
In the wake of the Reggie Bush controversy and this month’s Vanity FAIL, it’s worth spreading the word that magazines like Giant Robot & Hyphen are still in need of aid in order to stay afloat. As Jessica Lum notes::
Many of the organizations that were started to reach out, broadcast, [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
Chris Sims at The Comic Alliance highlighted the cover to Archie #608, which points in the direction of a decidedly different type of crossover between Archie and his gang and Josie & The Pussycats – specifically, the eponymous Mr. Andrews and Valerie, so uh, memorably played by Rosario Dawson in [...]

by special correspondent Arturo R. García

My friends at Fantastic Fangirls turned me on to the Chromatic Comics meme that went around LiveJournal, Dreamwidth and similar blog sites. Simply put: a number of bloggers re-cast various fandoms with all-POC casts. Below are a few notable examples with links attached.
From Bossymarmalade’s Chromatic Marvel, you saw Vanessa Williams [...]

by Guest Contributor danah boyd, originally published at apophenia
A few weeks ago, Facebook’s data team released a set of data addressing a simple but complex question: How Diverse is Facebook? Given my own work over the last two years concerning the intersection of race/ethnicity/class and social network sites, I feel the need to respond. And, [...]

Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

Can I just tell you all how much I hate “press conference” scenes on film or television? And the one in “A561984″ was one of the worst yet. I don’t know where they wrote that bunch of goons to get their training from, but with all their RABBLE RABBLE [...]

Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
What, you thought these guys taking a week off was going to stop us?
First off, we’re happy to welcome a new addition to Team Snarklight Express: the boss of bosses at New Demographic herself, Carmen Van Kerckhove!
Carmen: Hey there! Thought it was about time I started pulling my weight. [...]

Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

By now, dear reader(s), you’ve probably heard that ABC has given the turkeys at Flash Forward an extra-long Turkey Day hiatus in order to give the writing a punch-up. Of course, if you read this space, you know we could solve the problem for the creative staff in four [...]

by Guest Contributor Alex Niculescu

Over the last few years mainstream gay advocacy groups have focused their efforts on one issue, a panacea to seemingly solve all forms of inequality that gays are faced with: marriage rights.
With the passage of Proposition 8 this summer in California, many people’s hopes that gays would achieve full equality in [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

If you think that Racism and Sexism are thematically integrated in HEROES then you may want to check your intelligence before worrying about it being insulted.
- Jim Martin, Heroes writer and assistant to Tim Kring, on a (since-deleted) tumblr post
Dear Mr. Kring,
It’s been about a month since I stopped watching [...]

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Maybe we’re just bad luck.
I mean, you saw what happened to Heroes on the Roundtable’s watch. Now comes word that Flash Forward is slipping, ratings-wise. If I’d known about this effect sooner I would’ve started convening Glee roundtables.
Just kidding, Mahsino!
But, anyway, dear readers, what do you make [...]