When Elim Chan arrived in New York last week to prepare for her New York Philharmonic debut, her first stop was not David Geffen Hall, the orchestra’s home, or a rehearsal studio. It wasn’t even in the city. Instead, she visited Smith College, her alma mater in Massachusetts, to meet
Tag: Stereotypes
‘Barvalo’ in France Is a Roma Self-Portrait Without the Stereotypes
When Gabi Jimenez, a French Spanish Romani painter, first heard several years ago that a major museum in France was planning an exhibition on Romani culture and history, he said he thought it would be “a mess.” The story of the Roma, Jimenez said, has long been told by outsiders
'Hijab Butch Blues' challenges stereotypes and upholds activist self-care
Binaries be damned: What if God is genderless? What if God is trans? In the new memoir Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H takes what Leslie Feinberg started in 1993 with Stone Butch Blues — a complex depiction of gender and labor politics in 1970s-era America — and makes it true
How Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, Knocked Down Stereotypes
In the pantheon of Marvel superheroes, there’s Spider-Man and Iron Man and Captain America and … Shang-Chi? Admittedly one of the lesser known players in the comic company’s roster, Shang-Chi, a.k.a. the Master of Kung Fu, wasn’t even familiar to many of the creators that Disney and Marvel Studios hired