1/31/2024 0 Comments Woman moment![]() ![]() It was a short-lived journey but one that definitely left an indelible mark in the world of television. The show’s progressive portrayal of 1980s and 1990s ballroom culture in New York City captured both the joys (voguing, loving) and sorrows (HIV/AIDS, homophobia/transphobia) of queer life within Black and Latinx communities. After only three seasons, the groundbreaking FX television series Pose bowed out gracefully but not before marking a historic first for its star MJ Rodriguez, who became the first trans woman to receive an Emmy nomination for her role as “house mother” Blanca Evangelista. While Gorman embodies the best of what our country offers when it dares to be inclusive, other representations in popular culture have widened the net to challenge our gender binary representations. Here’s to making Black women’s poetry cool again! She has graced the covers of Vogue and Time, walked the red carpet of the Met Gala and she’s just getting started. It wasn’t long before her as-yet-to-be-published book of poems sold out, and she even performed at this year’s Super Bowl, an NFL first for a poet. Amanda Gorman: Making Poetry Cool Again 22-year-old Amanda Gorman is the youngest poet to ever speak at a presidential inauguration.įrom the moment she stepped on the inauguration stage in her trademark yellow coat and red hairpiece -becoming the youngest poet to serve as an inaugural poet, discovered by First Lady Jill Biden -Amanda Gorman took the country (and world) by storm, capturing the moment of “healing” in her poem “The Hill We Climb,” so desperately needed only days after the horrors that unfolded on Capitol Hill on January 6.įilled with grace, standing on the shoulders of previous Black women inaugural poets like Maya Angelou -Gorman dazzled us with her spoken word. Here is a list of what got us thinking and talking about feminism in popular culture.ġ0. Of course, popular culture-ever a pulse from which to measure the present moment-served as a guide this year for feminist expression. From the swearing in of our first woman vice president, Kamala Harris, to the severe restrictions on reproductive rights, 2021 has been a mixed bag for feminism.
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