Jul 2 2008

Disability Becomes the New Black for Fashion

Britain’s Missing Top Model began last night on the BBC network. This new reality show has eight women with disabilities competing to become a top-model. As you can imagine this show can offer some real insights for people without disabilities to better understand those who live with disabilities. Also for people living with disabilities a show like this may offer needed relief from the near invisibility of people with disabilities in the media. And yet,…more

Jul 1 2008

Thinking About Heidi Klum and Race

Today is turning out to be a model-focused day – GoLeft’s office is in the West Village so we’re getting a lot of Heidi Klum sightings (much prettier in person than those recent US Weekly pics) and so of course we fantasize about what a great progressive interview with Heidi would contain.

One of the things about her marriage to singer Seal is the media’s glossing over of race when talking about the…more

Jul 1 2008

Is Fashion Racist?

In this month’s Vogue magazine one article is titled Is Fashion Racist? It’s an interesting piece to read and you get to hear young models like Chanel Iman talk about their expectations of diversity and speaking out about the need for change. Many of the complaints and excuses are probably the same ones you’ve heard during conversations to diversify non-profit agencies (see we’re more like models than you thought!). A GoLeft shift on this article…more

Jun 30 2008

Morgan Freeman Spotlights Storms, Hurricanes in the Caribbean

Morgan Freeman has teamed up with Plan!t Now! (formerly the Grenada Relief Fund) to bring attention to the need to better prepare people to know about severe storms and hurricanes in the Caribbean and the coastal areas of the United States. GoLeft enjoys the mixing of advocacy and education that Plan!t Now endorses as well as the connection between the Caribbean and the United States that extends beyond U.S. people seeing the Caribbean as just…more

Jun 30 2008

Tim McGraw Saw Something and Did Something

You are more likely to have seen footage of Amy Winehouse punching audience members, because performers out of control is such a draw,(why or why do we love her cd so much!) but GoLeft loved this story of country music star Tim McGraw. McGraw witnessed a man physically abusing a woman during one of his concerts and he had the man removed by security guards. GoLeft could not help but to love the cultural shift…more