The library is open because.... READING IS FUNDAMENTAL! 📖🤓
Dino-Ray Ramos
@dinoray.bsky.social
Journalism is dead. I am a journalist. QPOC. DIASPORA founder (thediasporatimes.com) Always working on a new podcast. Former Cracker Barrel host (1996) and recovering Deadline editor.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's docu-narrative YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING goes beyond the hoax-driven TV fun we're used to and immerses us into the wild delusion of Elizabeth Holmes... Read my review... thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/you-can-se...
‘You Can See Everything’: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim Bring Empathy to Delusion in Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Opus
Issue No. 97: He ain’t a stunt queen. He’s a Guru of gags.
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THE SOCIAL RECKONING loves to remind us that Facebook is not a great source of joy anymore... and it makes a historic news story feel dated. thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/the-social...
‘The Social Reckoning’ Reaches The Thrilling Depths of a Big-Budget Wikipedia Entry
Issue No. 96: ‘The Social Network’ standalone sequel isn’t necessary.
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I vote to stop making "content" in high-traffic public spaces.
Don’t get it twisted: FORGOTTEN ISLAND is a win and is good for the culture but speaks to the limitations of stories Hollywood puts on more melanated movies. Read more in my review and watch FORGOTTEN ISLAND in theaters today! 🇵🇭✊🏾 thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/forgotten-...
An article/essay series that dives into the work of AAPI nonprofit orgs in the entertainment and media industry, who gets access, who's doing the work, and who benefits the most. Would love to hear more thots from the AAPI community... thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/the-busine...
The Business of Belonging, Part 1: Finding Community, Doing the Work, and Feeling (Un)Welcomed
A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve.
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It doesn't make sense to make an unemployed journalist pay for a subscription to a newsletter or any other platform to find a job. I mean, I get we all have to hustle, but damn, many journalists barely have enough money to pay rent.
I guess someone needed a documentary about that Raygun person from the Olympics. People just be making shit and thinking they are doing something, huh?
Interviews with press have boiled down to gimmicks, viral desperation, games, circle jerking, and everything but getting to know about the project the talent is promoting. Sure, it's what the people want -- but it's the only thing the "press" (and I say that with a very lowercase p) is giving them.
It's horny. It's queer. It's bloody. It's wild. It's weird. It's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Read my thots.... thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/teenage-se...
'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma': Jane Schoenbrun Serves a Valuable Lesson in Slasher Movies, Gender, and Queerness
Issue No. 91: I didn't totally get 'Camp Miasma'... but I understood it.
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So I started watching QUERELLE for the first time...and it's like a gay and slutty ANCHORS AWEIGH.
I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors... but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor... and when I die, I expect to find him laaaaaaughiiiiing....
The world is ready for Alaska Thunderfuck and J. Harrison Ghee in OH MARY! And I loved how I got to put the word "Thunderfuck" in a headline. Read more in DIASPORA's weekly wrap up! thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/alaska-thu...
Alaska Thunderfuck & J. Harrison Ghee Set For 'Oh Mary!', 'Black Panther III' Finds Its Lead; 'Sisters', 'Air Bud', 'I Want Your Sex', and That Prince Musical
A weekly(ish) digest of arts, media, and culture.
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The fact that there are queer people who don't know who Divine or John Waters is concerns me.
The Taylor Swift wedding is peak white culture for 2026.
Roshan Sethi debut novel THE SIMP addresses the ignorance and lack of accountability in Hollywood that the industry refuses to fix -- all through the eyes of Raj, a struggling, unemployed actor working for a demanding high-profile couple. thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/the-simp-a...
'The Simp': A Delightful and Painfully Accurate Depiction of Identity Politics, Absurdity, and Caucasity in Hollywood
Issue No. 88: Roshan Sethi's novel feels real... maybe TOO REAL.
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Are audiences still interested in listening to new podcasts where celebrities (A through D list) interview other celebrities? Do we have enough? Or do you want more?
I finished re-reading IN COLD BLOOD this morning and then immediately started re-watching CAPOTE. It's a heavy way to start a Tuesday morning.
I talked about my favorite comfort movies on Rotten Tomatoes's CRITICAL THINKING series! Shout out to Hanh Nguyen, who shared this ep with me!! What are your comfort movies for trash times like these???! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4B2...
Critics List Their Top "Feel-Good" Movies | Critical Thinking
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Read my thots about MADDIE’S SECRET (In NY and LA this weekend!) via link to the DIASPORA newsletter below! And shout out to Queen Meredith Baxter and the iconic NBC movie of the week from 1986 KATE’S SECRET! 😬❤️ thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/the-specta...
What would happen if real journalists stopped working for corporate media and started more independent and community-focused news media platforms?
Have you ever gotten to the point where you had to mute or block your own sibling on social media bc of how delusional they have become?
First there was VALENTINE'S DAY.... then there was NEW YEAR'S EVE... and then there was MOTHER'S DAY.... Now there is DISCLOSURE DAY! Get ready to be disclosed. thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/disclosure...
'Disclosure Day': Because The World Could Use A Bit of Empathetic Spielbergian Cinema
Issue No. 85: E.T. could never!
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Keke Palmer single-handedly reintroduced 2 Girls 1 Cup into the zeitgeist and what's just as enjoyable is Quinta Brunson saying “Keke!” like an auntie who is shocked but also delighted that she brought up a watershed moment in internet history that, as Keke suggested, changed the game! 👯♀️🥤💩
Is it possible just to send the 2 Girls 1 Cup video to everyone in Congress and Senate once every hour?
I always think of this moment from the 2019 Oscars when Lisa Bonet stepped in to stop her boo of the time Jason Momoa from doing a haka chant at the request of a red carpet reporter. This is just a friendly reminder that culture is not something to be performed at the request of colonizers. ☺️🫰🏾
Drag Race Tournament of All Stars closes out its first bracket today but this moment is the real winner. 🥇 💋👠💄
I get so many press releases for the never ending flow of Netflix TV shows and movies and they all look the same to me. But Netflix is like...