Shakespeare Did Not Sound Like Lawrence Olivier (For One Thing, The Rhymes Worked)

“David and Ben Crystal, a father and son team, have recreated what they say is Shakespeare’s original pronunciation, or OP, as they call it – how Shakespeare’s plays would have been sounded around 1600. … The OP accent that emerges from the Crystals’ research sounds closer to the Northern English or even some American accents.” (audio)

The Young Artists Destroying Stereotypes About Asian American Women

“They asked Asian women to finish this sentence: ‘All asian women are not ____.’ They received hundreds of submissions, but decided to present 100 statements that seemed to consistently come up. The statements succinctly touch upon the fetishization of Asian women, the model minority myth, the token sidekick and myriad other stereotypes that Asians face.”