People Are Praising “Doctor Who” For Its Uncompromising Episode On Racism And Discrimination

thirteenxrose:

Doctor Who has received significant viewer and critical acclaim for an episode, featuring Rosa Parks (Vinette Robinson) that tackled racism and discrimination.

The storyline also did not attempt to influence the event, or in any way inspire Rosa for her actions that day.

Rather, they helped protect the circumstances so that the event did happen.

Not only did the episode highlight racist attitudes in the past, they also highlighted how racism continues today. Ryan (Toisin Cole) talked about being stopped by police and Yaz (Mandip Gill) opened up about being the abuse she has experienced as a Muslim.

They also contextualised Rosa Parks’ story, highlighting the future difficulties she faced and the continued fight for civil rights.

Notably, this was also the first episode in Doctor Who history to have been written by a person of colour.

It was also pointed out that the episode was aired on the same day as a black woman was racially abused and was made to move on an Ryanair flight.

And at the end of the episode, The Doctor highlighted that Rosa Parks not only changed the world but the “universe,” pointing out an asteroid that has been named after her.

Here is Asteroid 284996: Rosaparks.

People Are Praising “Doctor Who” For Its Uncompromising Episode On Racism And Discrimination

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October 14, 1977, Anita Bryant is pied for her antigay bigotry at a press conference in Des Moines, IA.

It was 40 years ago today…

Never gets old.

40 years on and it still is gratifying

Anita’s still alive and kicking and being anti-gay. Thom Higgins, who threw the pie when he was 27 – and was poetically from Beaver Dam – passed away 17 years later at 44. Info on his life is here. The pie throwing was a big deal. In an age before the internet let gays feel connected, and long before ACT UP, the pie showed small pockets of gays that we could fight back.

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lesbianrey:

did you know that in 1953 eisenhower issued an executive order which banned gay people from being employed in government

and it was specifically to root out lesbians who enjoyed the job security of government work

“To protect their careers, lesbian government workers moderated their behavior to avoid suspicion. They refused to socialize with other lesbians in public, attended social functions with gay men as their ‘dates,’ and carefully chose their wardrobes and makeup to project a feminine persona. Male employees who resented reporting to a female boss could trigger an investigation into her sexuality.” – Robert J Corber “Cold War Femme”

this era was called the lavender scare and was both a direct result of mccarthyism and the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness during ww2. over 10,000 lesbians and gay men lost their jobs and as a result the daughters of bilitis (the first ever lesbian activist group in the u.s.) formed in order to protect themselves and gay men

Important history

and it’s John Kerry’s apology for these events that was removed from the State Department website days after Trump took office  

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skillzyo:

I’m going to establish myself as a writer who never writes straight relationships. Then, one fateful day, I’m going to introduce a straight couple. I will make them the healthiest straight relationship ever without ever saying they are a couple. I’ll keep it subtext most of the time. Still, they will be as well developed as my plethora of gay-ass characters. Then, just after subtext becomes maintext and they’ve finally admitted their feelings for one another and given in to those feelings

I’m going to kill one of them off for drama

17k notes. We’re so salty.

ok but kill the guy

people who don’t wear glasses who are writing characters who wear glasses;

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they get fogged up when we drink hot beverages.
they get smudged for no reason.
we will push them up using anything in our area (i.e shoulder, whatever is in my hand, scrunching my nose up so they get pushed up, etc.).
they get knocked off our faces all. the. fucking. time.
when we change clothes we either take them off or they fall off when we pull our shirts off.
we have to clean them after being in the rain.
we own multiple pairs of them, not just one lone pair for our whole lives.
most people don’t wear them in the pool, but some have extra old pairs for the pool (like me).
some people take them off during sex, that’s fine! but some people keep them on.
they don’t get squished into your face when you kiss (most of the time. at least from what i’ve experienced and i’ve got some mf big glasses).
if we look down and look back up while you talk/to peek up at something, we will just peek blindly over the top of them.
we clean them on whatever item of clothing is closest.
some of us have prescription sunglasses and some of us wear contacts when we need to wear sunglasses.
please keep some of these in mind when you write characters with glasses cause y’all who have 20/20 vision keep telling me all characters sleep in their glasses and own the same singular pair from age 6-25 and they never clean them.

( there’s this but you missed a few iconic glasses traits
– “where’d I put my glasses” (is wearing them)
– new glasses getting scratched on basically nothing. where’d the nick come from? we just don’t know.
– forgetting you’re wearing synthetic material and just smudge the junk on your glasses around
– after doing so, proceeding to hunt down any friend who is wearing a more cottony material
– getting eyelashes on your glasses
– stabbing yourself in the face with the arm of your glasses
– “woah are you blind?”
– “how many fingers am I holding up??”
– walking into a warm room from the cold and suddenly being unable to see because your glasses fogged up
– going outside and everything is Super Crisp 1080p
– having three pairs of glasses and putting all of them at once
– “aw dude you have transition lenses? lucky.”
– the non-glasses scrutinising squint
– taking off your glasses and suddenly you’re a different entity entirely
– if you’re too good for taking off your glasses when dressing/undressing, realising you didn’t pull the collar of a shirt out enough and subjecting to your fate )

-For female characters wearing eye makeup is pretty much useless

– the reason why is because no matter what we do, the mascara will smear on our glasses

– thinking “Oh, there’s a little smudge. I’ll just clean it quickly”, then taking the glasses off and wondering how the hell you could see with what looks like three layers of dirt on them

– giving your loved one a little kiss but in the wrong angle so their nose touches your glasses

– the look™ when you’re in your bed lying on the side with your glasses on (aka the glasses are skewed)

-sleeping in glasses fucking hurts… well, not anymore, but it used too

-if you have long eyelashes, having to push your glasses down your nose so they dont constantly rub each other, then having to push them up cuz you cant see

-WHY WONT YOU STAY ON MY FACE?!?!?!

-*they tilt crooked slightly* oh wow, And… now Im falling over

-having transitions and right after walking into a building you can’t see because they’re still dark

-forgetting where you put them then having to either ask for help or judge your entire surroundings

-dont like contacts? like cosplaying? guess what! you’re blind now!

-trading glasses with other glasses wearers to see how blind your friends are

-when there’s a smudge that just. Won’t. Go. Away.

-“hey do you have lens cleaner?”

-your old glasses become your back up pair in case your current ones break

-metal and plastic frames are very different and most people have a preference

All of this omg

Oh also I forgot to mention the nOSE PAD THINGIES

I HATE THOSE WITH A BURNING PASSION

OH MY GOD SAME, I HAD A PAIR OF METAL FRAMES AND THE NOSE PAD THINGIES THAT CUSHIONED THE ACTUAL THINGS FELL OFF

THAT AMIGOS IS WHY I WEAR PLASTIC FRAMES

some long hair-specific glasses nonsense:

  • if you have metal frames with nose pads that’re attached with wire, you Will get your hair tangled around those wires eventually. it’s inevitable
  • this usually happens if i put my glasses on my head but sometimes it just… happens
  • you can also get hair caught in the hinges and then pull it out of your head when you try to take them off
  • just in general, long hair is gonna tangle around your glasses (some frames are worse than others but it’s gonna happen eventually no matter what)
  • if you have your hair done up super tight, it might be hard to get your glasses on, since you usually want the arms to go right next to your skin and that’s Hard bc your hair is In The Way
  • if you have your hair done up at all and you try to take your glasses off, you’re probably gonna pull it loose a bit around your ears. whoops
  • please imagine having your hair in a ponytail but having two stupid looking loops of hair sticking out the sides of your head right above your ears.  that’s my life
  • getting your hair inside your glasses instead of outside them is the worst!!  this is probably less likely to happen if you have bangs but i don’t and i keep getting hair between my glasses and my eyes and having to take off my glasses to fix em

also:

  • if you’re like me and you don’t care about looking dumb or buying contacts, you can just get some smaller glasses and some Big sunglasses and wear sunglasses over the glasses. fashion
  • if you’re like my mom you can just buy funky sunglass lenses that clip over your glasses.  same concept, just slightly less ridiculous
  • some people (like me) who have Less Terrible eyesight don’t wear their glasses all the time – and i don’t just mean like reading glasses, i wear mine when i go out because otherwise i have to squint to make out signage, but when i’m at home i leave em off!
  • if you don’t wear your glasses all the time, you can and will forget to bring them with you when you might need them (or think you forgot them and panic for 5 minutes until you find them)
  • doing stuff with your hands as your glasses slowly slide down your nose and just… watching them go
  • i have on at least one occasion had someone else push my glasses back up for me bc my hands were full and i couldn’t do it myself

Getting a new pair of glasses with a stronger prescription and putting them on and WOW DID SOMEBODY TURN UP THE RESOLUTION

I CAN SEE INDIVIDUAL LEAVES ON THE TREES

THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER

  • Alternately, I was trying not to think about it because it’s the source of like 10% of my day-to-day stress, needing a stronger prescription than you’ve got and suffering constant headaches and eyestrain but tough, there’s no insurance to cover an update for another year, if ever.
  • The soul-crushing terror when your glasses try to fall off your face into for example the ocean. This is probably less true for affluent glasses-wearers and those with weak prescriptions.

— needing a strong enough RX that you literally can not afford to lose your glasses. you develop a sense for knowing where they are whenever you sleep; losing them stirs a panic and nothing else can happen until they’re found.

—not all hats (beanies and ball caps) work? they put pressure on the arms in weird ways and hurt your ears or throw the frames off-balance on your face and it’s just a hassle

—taking them off to do microscopic tasks if nearsighted

– trying to find characters to cosplay who have glasses…like…just one?

– don’t have contacts and going without your glasses for cosplay? Time to play ‘how long can I take this headache before I HAVE to put my glasses on’!

– telling yourself you’ll just take them off for pictures and forgetting EVERY TIME.

  • metal frames in winter… the metal get freezing cold and it hurts (I used to get a headache) 
  • having prescription sunglasses that are weaker than your regular glasses.
  • also, you literally wear the sunglasses non stop you don’t take them off.

Once I was on a bus going through border control, they check your passport photo and then they look at you and the lady was just staring at me I was staring back at her for like solid 5 minutes and she did like weird motion with her hand and I was very confused wtf she wants, turns out she wanted from me to take off my sunglasses – I had to be told that by my classmates because I forgot that I am wearing them.. 

  • when you kiss in an awkward angle and part of their face end up smashed on your glasses and leaving oily stains.

OVER THE EAR HEADPHONES INSTEAD OF BUDS. Fuck you, you want to see your tv and hear the game?? You want to be on mic?? The headphones crush the glasses to your face painfully after a while. Choose.

Dancing around the room or just moving fast? Whip your head round the wrong way and watch them sail across the room. Then have a panic while you check for cracks or scratches