interview
Interviews with lovers, fighters and the various professionals who deal with our dysfunction.
A. S.imple D.ate review and interview with Rebecca Faith Quinn
They say that representation matters, so why are we still waiting for proper representation for autistic females? Plenty of autistic female writers and actresses exist, and yet filmmakers choose to omit them from stories about autism. Autistic women like myself didn't grow up seeing autistic females on TV, and the autistic girls of today shouldn't grow up the same way. My good friend Rebecca Faith Quinn is a fellow autistic who was also fed up with the lack of autistic female characters, so she decided to make her own. Her short film, A. S.imple D.ate, focuses on an autistic woman named Rachel who goes on a date with a guy she met online. It may be a short film on YouTube (channel name is YoungQuinn Productions), but it is undeniably a huge step in the right direction for autistic female representation.
By Cat the Autist5 years ago in Humans
Aline
Aline is an award-winning American singer/songwriter, rapper, and an award-winning nominee in the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA union known as Bethany Aline. She has recently worked for Halle Berry on her first directional feature "Bruised", and with Sally Field, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, and more on Netflix's "Dispatches From Elsewhere".
By Tammy Reese5 years ago in Humans
A cornered cat becomes as fierce as a … Garfield
August 16, 2020. Written by Edward Attwood “We’re in a neighbourhood now; I wanna get out and explore…” Many adult youths in Victoria are noticing massive changes to their everyday routines during the second wave of lockdown.
By Edward Attwood5 years ago in Humans
What is it Like To Be You
After letting him know my plan, I was able to sit with a co- worker and record our conversation about what it's like to be him, specifically, him being a white man. “ It’s not hard,” said Zach. “ Well, it’s definitely not as hard as others. I don’t have to be scared about being pulled over or anything.”
By Jess Brooks6 years ago in Humans
"You're Pretty For a Dark Skinned Girl"
I was going to start this blog post by defining the term ‘colourism’ from the dictionary, however I was quite surprised to find that this term does not exist in the English dictionary. Award-winning author Alice Walker is credited as one of the first people to use the term colourism, defining it in one of her essays in the 1983 book, In Search of our Mothers’ Garden, as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color.” Racism, in comparison, is discriminatory behaviour or actions towards someone of a different race. Ultimately, both colourism and racism boil down to superiority and feeling that person A is more superior than person B purely based on their skin colour.
By Nuriya Shoro6 years ago in Humans
Breaking the Stigma Against Toxic Male Masculinity
Living with a group of teenage boys might sound like a nightmare to most people. They can get obnoxiously loud when they have their friends over, create horrible messes in the kitchen, start outrageous house parties that last until four in the morning, and constantly flaunt their masculinity like a badge on their chest. However, this nightmare was a reality for third year Brock University student Tanya Moreira. Since Moreira was the only girl in the household, she picked up on a lot of her roommate’s traits, specifically relating to their masculine behaviours.
By Ross Lopes8 years ago in Humans
"I've Never Felt As Scared as I Did When People Were Killed for Being In Love"
I felt prepared to meet her, but I hadn't even thought of how Mrs. Adley would approach me. If she was anything like the elderly people I'd met and come to adore, would she invite me past the threshold and ask if I'd enjoy a tea and biscuit? Pop the kettle on perhaps?
By Jack Samuels8 years ago in Humans
A Rude Awakening
“ You’ve been living in a dream world, Neo.” This was one of the famous quotes in the movie Matrix that Ms. Johnson referenced as she explained how the movie was one of her favorites. My interview with Ms. Johnson ,a Resolution Manager at Hertz, was conducted over the phone. She referenced this movie to explain how her perception of both the world and the people in it was forever changed. The purpose of my interview was to find the relevant events that occurred in this persons life that changed their overall outlook on life in a detrimental way.
By Darrian Broom9 years ago in Humans
The Shocking Truth of Cheating
A few days ago I was hanging out with two guys and because I've always had this relentless curiosity surrounding the way people act and why they do some of the things we deem in this day and age as normal or acceptable. Besides this I also like to think of myself as a woman that has insight for most female scenarios and even some male standpoints. So there we were sitting in the car and I started the first conversation while the other guy was sleeping. We were discussing his current relationship at the time and he had told me he and his girlfriend had been together for about 5 months and he was expressing the problems they had. For instance, I was told their current problem was because she was accepting money from other guys. Now having seen this type of behavior before, I wasn't shocked; plenty of women and men take advantage of people financially so I gave him a hypothetical.
By AceWifeyMa9 years ago in Humans
Looking in The Mirror: Sexuality in Skateboarding
On September 27, 2016 the skateboarding world changed forever when one of the most beloved professional skateboarders in the world, Brian Anderson, announced in a video to the public that he is gay. The 25 minute documentary-style video from Vice Sports, starts with friends, fellow pro skaters and industry figures speaking of what comes to mind when they think of Anderson and his impact on the history of skateboarding.
By Moby Howeidy9 years ago in Humans
