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goodblacknews · 2 years
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Disney VFX Supervisor Marlon West Organizes "A Great Day in Animation" Photo of Black Professionals in Animation
Disney VFX Supervisor Marlon West Organizes “A Great Day in Animation” Photo of Black Professionals in Animation
The iconic “A Great Day in Harlem” photograph of 57 jazz musicians taken by Art Kane in 1958 was the inspiration for the recently recreated “A Great Day in Animation” photo of 54 Black professionals in animation. The homage was the brainchild of Disney visual effects supervisor Marlon West (who GBN is exceedingly proud to have as a regular contributor – check out his latest #MusicMonday playlist…
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ultimateanna · 10 months
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Latoya Raveneau: I'm promoting racism! I hate white people!
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alannawrites · 1 year
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Hello! My name's Alanna and I'm the lead editor of LOVE UNLIMITED, Marvel Unlimited's romance comic line. This week we finished a story about Gwendolyn Poole, AKA Gwenpool, coming to the realization that she's aromantic and asexual--and though I usually prefer to let the stories speak for themselves, I wanted to talk a bit about this one.
There was basically no awareness of the asexual spectrum when I was growing up--I went through both high school and college secretly feeling like I was some kind of alien in a world that made no sense to me. Finding out that other people experienced the same thing, and that I wasn't weird or broken, was a big moment in my life.
I know how much it would have meant to me to see a character grappling with the same questions I was. I searched desperately for myself in stories as a kid even though I couldn't quite define what I was looking for yet. I'm so glad that there are more ace stories now, and honored that we were able to bring one more into the world.
I was inspired and emboldened to pitch this story by the work my friends Andrea Shea, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt did on Connor Hawke's story at DC, by Latoya Raveneau's ace advocacy within Disney, and by my erstwhile assistant editor and co-conspiritor Kaitlyn Lindtvedt, who, I discovered after a few months of working together, was also ace! We were helped and supported at every step by other aces at Marvel as well--there are more of us than you might think! It's also amazing that our EIC and Marvel greenlit this story and gave us the freedom to tell it the way we wanted.
I'm so grateful to @jeremywhitley, @bailiesartblog and Kelly Fitzpatrick for bringing this story to life. Working with an all-ace team has been so special--there's just something magic about knowing that even though our individual experiences differed, we had something fundamental and formative in common. There are pieces of all of us in this story, if you know where to look.
Anyway! Like many aces, this is something I get shy talking about, haha--so that's all I've got for you! (Unless you want to read more here!) Thank you all for reading and loving the story, and congrats to aroace icon Gwenpool!
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garythingsworld · 1 year
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newswireml · 1 year
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New Disney Cartoon on Slavery May be the Wokest Thing I've Ever Seen – RedState#Disney #Cartoon #Slavery #Wokest #Ive #RedState
While Disney gains its monetary success on the backs of widely viewed shows like The Mandalorian, the company continues to spin those profits into politically charged children’s programming. As RedState reported last year, leaked videos of an all-hands-on-deck meeting showed executive producer Latoya Raveneau bragging about how she has a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” adding “queerness” to shows…
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afrotumble · 2 years
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Latoya Raveneau Inks Overall Deal With Disney – Deadline
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fsproductionart · 3 years
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From: Chapter 17: “The First Times They Met”, Season 2
By: Latoya Raveneau
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/B01Xgn6AwEU/
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kickmag · 3 years
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Questlove & Black Thought Connect With Disney Junior For Rise Up, Sing Out Animated Series Focused On Racism & Social Justice
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Disney Junior announces a new animated series for their preschool-aged audience designed to address current issues of racism and social justice. Rise Up, Sing Out will consist of music shorts that celebrate differences in people and opens up conversations around the topics. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter of The Roots are providing the music for the shorts and executive producing through their Two One Five Entertainment Production company alongside Latoya Raveneau (Disney + The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder) who also is an executive producer.  The Conscious Kid, an organization dedicated to promoting healthy racial identities for youth, is consulting on the series and creating a viewing companion guide for parents.
Questlove and Black Thought released a joint statement about Rise Up, Sing Out:
"It is an honor to work with the Disney Junior team to help create a series of shorts that will empower and uplift the future generations in the way we know best, through music. We hope these shorts will encourage the young audience to recognize and celebrate our differences as human beings while learning the tools to navigate real-world issues of racial injustice."
Rise Up, Sing Out will premiere later this year across all Disney Junior platforms.
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freeindependentnews · 2 years
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A series of videos reveals the Walt Disney Co.’s “not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” as Disney finds itself at the center of national debate over gay rights, transgenderism, and parental rights.
The videos—obtained by investigative journalist Christopher Rufo and posted Tuesday on Twitter—expose Disney executives inside an all-hands meeting in response to Florida’s HB 1557, the Parental Rights in Education bill, which was recently signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis. 
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Leaked video from Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” summit reveals top-level employees openly discussing the company’s push to include more LGBTQ+ content in its ever-growing library.
Released by Christopher Rufo of City Journal, one video featured executive producer Latoya Raveneau casually talking about how the company encouraged her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” when she became an employee.
“I love Disney’s content, I grew up watching all the classics,” said Raveneau. “They have been a huge informative part of my life. But at the same time, I worked at small studios most of my career and I’ve heard things like they won’t let you show this in a Disney show, and I’m like okay.”
“So I was a little suss when I started. But then, my experience was bafflingly the opposite of what I had heard,” she continued. “In my little pocket of Proud Family TVA, the showrunners were super welcoming. Meredith Roberts and our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-at-all secret gay agenda.”
Raveneau said that this sudden change in Disney encouraged her to add “queerness” wherever she could, whether it was having two characters kiss or just having a queer character.
“No one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me,” she concluded.
Another video released by Christopher Rufo featured Disney corporate president Karey Burke speaking as “a mother of two queer children – one transgender child and one pansexual child.” Burke discussed the company’s desire to include more “queer leads” in its creative content.
The videos come amid Disney declaring open war on the state of Florida over its Parental Rights Law – what radical LGBTQ activists have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
LGBTQ representation in children’s shows has been on the uptick this past decade, beginning in 2014 on the Disney show Good Luck Charlie, which featured a lesbian mom couple. That was later followed by the Disney show Andi Mack featuring the first teenage gay couple on the network. Disney later broke new ground with the release of Onward – the studio’s first animated movie to feature an openly LGBTQ character. - wearebreitbart (IG)
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inkshifter21 · 2 years
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Okay, as someone who identifies as homoromantic, what Matt Walsh says about the asexual spectrum pisses me off.
To explain what homoromantic is, it's one of the terms within the ace spectrum that isn't really discussed or known about. Before I came across the term, for a short while, I used asexual lesbian as a way to identify myself, which I know can be confusing for people, since the term lesbian is defined as having sexual attraction to women. Terms like homoromantic, biromantic aroace, etc, aren't really well known, even within the LGBT+ community and I think have only begun to become talked about more, especially with Jaiden coming out as aroace 😊
So for those who don't know what homoromatic is, it means being romantically attracted to the same gender. There are so many terms under the ace ans aro community (and who knows, some of you reading this might find a term that you identify with) so I HIGHLY recommend you do more research on it, even if you don't identify on the asexual and aromantic spectrums. But be careful, there are SO SO many misconceptions out there.
This is why it's so important for more people to understand what the ace/aro/aroace communities are.
For those who don't know, here's a quick recap. I've only found out about this today, but from my understanding, Latoya Raveneau came out as biromantic (I'm so happy for her! I'd be putting a flag here, but emojis don't seem to have any ace/aro/aroace spectrum flags 😕) anyway, so this Matt Walsh guy, from my understanding is a conservative political commentator who does say some REALLY stereotypical and dumbfounded things about what asexuality is.
Below is a reddit post that I've found that does help explain and debunk what he says about the ace community.
https://www.reddit.com/r/asexuality/comments/tzzwmz/a_response_to_matt_walshs_video/
If you don't want to watch Walsh's video directly, there are bound to be other channels analyzing his video
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tombancroft1 · 3 years
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In this episode the Bancroft Brothers go LIVE with a virtual audience as they sit down with the wonderful Tara Whitaker and Latoya Raveneau to discuss their roles as directors on the upcoming show The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder, coming soon to Disney +, as well as their journey to becoming the successful artists they are today. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify and other podcast channels! Or- link in my IG bio! (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMpHWH9FVTA/?igshid=14f4gslaevfd4
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cowabunga94 · 3 years
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Day To Day Series - LATOYA RAVENEAU Art| Animation
I just found this, it's very instructive and Talk about diferents roles so I thought some might be interested!
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brunomindcast · 2 years
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dragonwingfly-blog · 2 years
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Many parents are rightfully upset with Disney's promise of “adding queerness” to children’s programming, according to a leaked video of executive producer Latoya Raveneau. Disney Corporate President Karey Burke also announced plans to add "many,
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fsproductionart · 3 years
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By: Latoya Raveneau
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/By7pQxijyjO/
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