Monday, November 02, 2015
The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Back in September,
Viola Davis became the first African-American woman to win the Emmy for Best
Actress in a Drama Series, the moment was heralded in the media as a victory
for racial equity in Hollywood. However, only a month before, researchers at
U.S.C. released a report on gender bias in films made between 2007 and 2014,
and found a ‘‘dismal record of diversity, not just for one group, but for
females, people of color and the L.G.B.T. community.’’ We have also seen this recently in other
industries as well such in Silicon Valley where small victories are often
overenthusiastically celebrated as evidence of larger change. Joining me today to discuss diversity in the
workplace and whether or not the word has lost all meaning is Anna Holmes, the founder of Jezebel.com and a columnist for the
New York Times Book Review who wrote all about it in the New York Times Magazine. You can also follow Anna on twitter.
Most of us are terrified by monsters and serial
killers, but yet we flock to the theaters to see them in films; and we all tend
to avoid thinking about death, but some of us will happily jump out of planes
and go swimming with sharks for the thrill.
Fear is a universal human experience but we all deal with it differently
and despite the fact that it shapes so much of how we see and react to the
world around us little is known about how this emotion manifests itself and
affects us. It is with these questions
in mind that sociologist Margee Kerr
began studying the science of fear and traveled the world to investigate all
the things that make our hearts race, skin crawl, and send chills down are
spines. Margee joins me today to talk
all about her new book Scream:Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear which looks at the latest
developments in the field and chronicles her adventures seeking out fresh
sources of screams from around the world. You can also follow Margee on twitter.
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