by Dino-Ray Ramos | Feb 18, 2026 | Books, Dossier, Featured
There is a limited amount of information that we know about Sally-Tom, a trailblazing Black trans woman who was born in 1839, who is one of the first – if not the first – trans person in the history of the United States to have her gender recognized by the...
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Feb 17, 2026 | Commentary, Entertainment, Featured, Los Angeles, Music, Theatre
“Panic at the Disco” is a new essay series that unpacks the impact of the Center Theatre Group’s new production of Here Lies Love. The critical journey will explore the complexities of artistic depictions of traumatic events and cultural figures in history and how it...
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Feb 17, 2026 | Art, Calendar, Entertainment, Film, Local, Los Angeles
FILM Short Films Honoring the Day of Remembrance: Executive Order 9066 – 7 PM, February 19: On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans—most of them U.S....
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Feb 10, 2026 | Books, DIASPORA Library, Entertainment, Film, Journalism, Media
As journalism and media enter an era of highly scrutinized and policed through an authoritarian lens, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis’s book Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control show us how morally panicked gatekeepers have been trying to...
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Feb 9, 2026 | Commentary, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Reviews
Colin and Ray in Pillion will go down in cinematic history as one of the most romantic couples to grace the silver screen. Harry Lighton’s feature directorial debut is what Fifty Shades of Grey so desperately wanted to be: an “erotic comedy drama”. The main glaring...
