Tonight, Hildur Guonadottir from Iceland won an Oscar for Best Score for Joker. Kwak Sin Ae was the producer for Parasite which won the Best Picture.
This was really, really remarkable because they are both women.
How did they sneak in when the Academy is 77% white men and 94% white?
Here is my thought: The voters didn't know they were women. Their names are foreign and so they couldn't tell they were female.
I should have named Claire-Adele Yong or Jin or Kwan or Soley or Pordis. She could put her name on her resume or CV or award title and Americans couldn't guess what gender she was. It would be a surprise. I wonder if women with gender ambiguous names make it farther in the world?
It seemed to work for winning Oscars tonight.
This blog is about the little and big thoughts that pop into my head. I once read that when Flannery O'Connor walked into a bookstore, she would want to edit her published works with a red pen. In the digital world, we have the luxury of tweaking things up after we've hit the publish button. I can be a perfectionist/procrastinator, where waiting for the ideal means little gets done. Here I will share what is not--and likely will never be--perfect.
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