Day: April 6, 2017

A work-in-progress edit of the documentary PRIDE? screened at the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival in March to great reception, but in order to get it finished and reach a wider audience, a crowdfunding campaign has been launched. The UK film is an exploration of what Pride means in a world of increased visibility and acceptance […]

Scarlett Johansson’s live-action film version of Ghost in the Shell is facing allegations of queer-baiting and straight-washing. When fans first learned that American actress Scarlett Johansson would play the role of Japanese anti-terrorism investigator Major Motoko Kusanagi in the film version, many objected to the white-washing of an Asian story. But now film writer David Opie has pointed […]

Facebook have just made it harder for your disgruntled ex to share your naked photos. Victims of such non-consensual posts, often referred to as ‘revenge porn’, now have some help in preventing their spread. The social media platform has announced new artificial intelligence tools designed to keep such content, once flagged, off its site for […]

In this day and age, ‘catfishing’ – the act of using someone else’s photos and/or identity on a dating app/website – is rather common, and many of us have encountered it at one point or another. But what do these people gain from it? The term ‘catfish’ was coined in a 2010 documentary of the […]