Sofia Quintero
After working on issues from multicultural education to police brutality, Sofia Quintero's career marries arts and activism. She cofounded ChicaLuna, which trained women of color in media production. As Black Artemis, Sofia wrote the feminist hip hop novels Explicit Content, Picture Me Rollin', and Burn, which are taught at U.S. college. Her novel Efrain's Secret was an American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults Award finalist. She earned her MFA at the TV Writers Studio of Long Island University. Her YA novel Show and Prove is forthcoming in 2015.
Presentations from Facing Race 2014
Keeping It Unreal: Decoding Gender, Race and Reality TV--A Media Literacy Workshop
If reality TV was all you knew of America, you’d think the civil rights and women’s rights movements never occurred. Reality TV portrays women in general as gold-diggers, bimbos, and bitches -- and women of color as violent, ignorant, "ghetto" “hos.” Meanwhile, Black and Latino men are cast as modern day minstrels, thugs, and buffoons. Why are women and people of color represented so harmfully, and with so much bias, in media and popular culture? Learn to decode racism and sexism in popular media. Participants gain tools and resources to debunk messages of injustice and become active, critical media consumers.
Speakers: Jennifer Pozner, Sofia Quintero