WOMEN AND POP MEDIA

Does Reality tv help or hurt women? Our Guests Courtney Young is the Director of Development for Chica Luna Productions, promoting socially conscious media by, about and for people of color, as well as a blogger at thethirtymilewoman.wordpress.com. Previously, Young served as a research fellow at UCLA’s Summer Humanities Institute. Young’s fiction and pop culture criticism has been published in the Stanford University Black Arts Quarterly, 971 and the Encyclopedia of Hip-Hop Literature. She is currently completing two books, the first an edited collection of essays about the ways in which colorism in pop culture and media effects the lives of Black and South East Asian women in the United States. The second book is a collection of essays about Black women and political citizenship and participation. Young received her Master’s Degree from NYU and her Bachelor’s Degree from Spelman College.