Round-Up: Jan 19, 2015

• A new report says 36% of Canadian women in prison are Indigenous, a growing proportion despite being identified as a human rights concern (Feministing).
• The Oscar nominations were announced last week and for the second year in a row, not a single actor of colour was nominated (Mic). In addition, many people are questioning why Carol was snubbed in the nominations, after becoming “perhaps the most critically-acclaimed mainstream film of all time featuring gay women”  (Women and Hollywood).
• Thump interviews three Canadian women DJs about inequality in the electronic and dance music communities.
• Check out Toronto photographer Samra Habib’s queer Muslim photography project, Just Me and Allah (The Advocate).
• At Shameless, Nish Israni gives a brown girl’s perspective on body hair politics.
• Racism Review examines the entitlement and hostility that characterizes responses to “Black Twitter” from white tweeters.
• Uganda’s war on gays is still ongoing and you can learn more about it by watching this chilling video report from VICE (Towleroad).