HoodCelebrityy Photo: Rick Kern/WireImage In the cultural spaces from which dancehall music gets its name, women are usually the center of attention. The Jamaican genre’s digital rhythms are calibrated to inspire female bodies to wine , as the vigorous gyration of the waist is known across the Caribbean, and the lyrics to gyal tunes like Tony Matterhorn’s “Dutty Wine” and Mr. Vegas’s “Bruk It Down” echo this connection, calling out ladies-only instructions. The living embodiment of this culture, as seen through the years in music videos from Chaka Demus & Pliers’ “Murder She Wrote” to Rihanna’s “Work,” are the so-called dancehall queens: acrobatic dancers in go-go boots, fishnets, and “batty rider” shorts who run the floor at Kingston street parties and diaspora nightclubs with splits, head-top plants, and other feats of flexibility. Yet dancehall, the music genre, has long minimized female voices, relegating women artists to a peripheral role. This, finally, is … [Read more...] about Women Are Keeping Dancehall Fresh
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James Franco Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit Reaches a Settlement Deal
Photo: WireImage According a a joint status report filed in L.A. County Superior Court, a settlement agreement has been reached in a lawsuit that accused James Franco of sexual misconduct including sexual coercion and exploitation at his acting school. Franco taught at Studio 4 between 2014 and 2017. The lawsuit, filed by actresses and former students Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal in 2019, accused Franco and his associates Vince Jolivette and Jay Davis of “widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects.” According to The Hollywood Reporter , the lawsuit claimed that Franco “sought to create a pipeline of young women who were subjected to his personal and professional sexual exploitation in the name of education,” which included pressuring them into filming “orgy” scenes on camera. However, The Hollywood Reporter reported … [Read more...] about James Franco Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit Reaches a Settlement Deal
Two Women Are Suing James Franco for Alleged Sexual Misconduct
James Franco. Photo: Say Cheese!/GC Images In January of last year, five women accused James Franco of sexual misconduct, with claims ranging from coerced oral sex to exploitative work environments. Four of the women in that Los Angeles Times feature were students at Franco’s acting school, and one of those former students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan, is now part of a lawsuit against Franco. As the New York Times reports , a suit filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims that Tither-Kaplan and a woman named Toni Gaal allege Franco and his associates mistreated them sexually, while using the school as a venue to exploit women and engage in “widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects.” Gaal was not part of the group of five who spoke with the LAT in 2018. Franco, his business partner Vince Jolivette, the Rabbit … [Read more...] about Two Women Are Suing James Franco for Alleged Sexual Misconduct