The Box Scene Project’s 3rd Charity Giveaway Needs You!

It’s that time again!

Mark your calendars because The Box Scene Project’s 3rd Charity Giveaway begins August 1st, the anniversary of the release of The Box Scene.

To make it a success we need your help!

Do you have fandom memorabilia laying around and collecting dust? Do you create items, jewelry, iPhone cases, t-shirts, etc. that you think other fans will love?
Donate your item to The Box Scene Project’s 3rd Charity Giveaway and get three free entries to win a prize of your choice!
We would need your item delivered to our P.O. Box by July 15. If you would like to donate an item, please email us at donations@theboxsceneproject.org.

Calling All Writers! We Want You!

Do you watch multiple popular network TV shows?

Does the lack of equal representation bother you?

Do you want to do something about it?

If so, we want you!

The Box Scene Project will soon launch its effort to unite multiple fans and fandoms together to bring attention to the importance of and demand equal representation of LGBT*/minority characters, actors, and issues on network television.

If you would like to join our team, please fill out the short application at the link.

LeakyCon Portland 2013!

We’ll be there!

Panel: Can Fandom Change the World?

  • Join us, Hank Green, Anthony Rapp, Andrew Slack, Danica Johnson, and Lauren Bird as we discuss the power of fandom (that’s you!) to change the world.
  • Friday, June 28 @ 5pm - Oregon 202/203

Project: Media Representation

  • We’re launching our newest project for representational equality at LeakyCon and we need your help! Find us in the merch den with our friends at the Harry Potter Alliance or in the corridors and be ready for your close up (and take some merch/free goodies with you)!

racebending:

“In my experience as an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry (being on the executive board of Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, being co-chair of Actors’ Equity Associations Equal Employment Opportunity Committee and sitting on various diversity committees with various parts of the industry engaging in dialogue about these issues for the past 15 years or so), I’ve found that most everyone likes to pass the buck. I’ve heard everything from it’s the producers’ fault to it’s the directors’ fault, to it’s the playwrights’ fault, to it’s the actors’ fault for not showing up to auditions. At the end of the day, I believe that casting has to be a truly collaborative effort.

“An actor has to be up to the challenge, his/her agent has to submit/push for an “outside the box” suggestion, the casting director has to give that agent’s client an opportunity to be seen by the creative team, the creative team has to have an open mind to re-imagine the role, the producer has to set the tone and mandate to the creative team that he/she is writing the checks to back a production that’s committed to portraying the world through a wider lens”

-Christine Toy Johnson, an award-winning writer, actor, filmmaker, and advocate for inclusion. Member: BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project (founder), executive board of Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, elected leadership of Actors’ Equity Association (and co-chair of the union’s EEOC), founding steering committee member of AAPAC.  

Read the full interview at LeeandLow publishing

aposse:

A+ Televison: The Fosters
The official synopsis of this series is, “a multi-ethnic family mix of foster, adopted, and biological kids are being raised by two moms.” Choice of word is important and it most certainly gives an impression. The fact that “two moms” was used instead of “lesbians” or “gay couple” is so goddamn important and tells you so much about the focus of this series. Their sexual orientations are detached from the premise of the show because it’s being said that hey, this is a norm. Two moms can be a norm just as much as two dads or a mother and father can be.

Most often you see the children of gay and lesbian couples being bullied,  the parents coming to the rescue and having to explain to them that they will face these prejudices. Yet you have the opposite of that here. These children know who their parents are, they understand that there’ll be prejudice, and they don’t need to accept anything because there isn’t anything to accept; these are their mothers and that’s just as plain as saying the sky is blue. 

And god, is that ever so refreshing to see.

When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV and I didn’t see any Asians on television. And you turn on Star Trek and there’s this Asian guy not chopping anybody up. He’s honorable, a helmsman of a spaceship, and it was a big, big deal for me to see that and have a role model.

John Cho (x)

Daily reminder that media representation matters. We need to see ourselves in stories to believe in the possibility of our own stories.


thetrevorproject:

Adam Lambert has partnered with AT&T to raise money for The Trevor Project as part of the Live Proud campaign. Here’s how you can help:

  1. Like the AT&T Live Proud Facebook Page and $1 will be donated to Trevor
  2. ReTweet this tweet or this tweet and $0.50 will be donated to Trevor
  3. Re-blog this and encourage your followers to do the same!

Up to $50K will be donated to Trevor by June 30. Thanks for your support!