J. K. Rowling is getting called out over racism again on Twitter. This time it’s about the names and locations of her international wizarding schools. jk back at it again with that racism — 𝙗𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙖 ☭ (@_remanso) February 29, 2020 There are so many things wrong with this map holy shit — Bernie Experience […]
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Barnes and Noble has canceled its plans to rerelease classic books with covers that reimagine white characters as people of color. Publishers Weekly ran a story on Feb. 5, detailing a New York City location’s plans to sell refreshed editions of 12 classics, like Romeo and Juliet, Frankenstein, and Moby Dick. The twist? These covers […]
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My Hero Academia mangaka Kohei Horikoshi is again at the center of online controversy after a Twitter user discovered that many of the characters in Horikoshi’s work share birthdays with infamous fascist figures. On Feb. 8, Twitter user @Object501 shared a graphic they titled “My Fascism Academy” which shows that characters Midoriya Izuku, Katsuki Bakugo, […]
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The opinions of the Star Wars fandom, as usual, are split on the final film in the Skywalker saga. Some fans were delighted by Rise of Skywalker, while others felt it was a disappointing end to a film series that has stretched four decades. Regardless of how they felt about the film, however, Star Wars fans are […]
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Developer Lunaris Games is a queer-run studio focused on creating diverse visual novels that “bring the stories and games to the LGBTQA+ community that it so sorely needs.” But its latest release is going through a bureaucratic nightmare thanks to the review process on the gaming platform Steam. Fantasy visual novel Errant Kingdom follows the […]
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Baby Yoda‘s continued dominance over the internet has spurred an online petition calling for the beloved Star Wars character to have an emoji of its own. Posted to change.org last week, the petition, which is pushing tech giant Apple to develop the emoji, blew past its initial goal of 2,500 signatures and has since garnered […]
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