Author: DFC

diversity, Equity and Inclusion

How to Stop Dating in FoCo, Part II

Note: After publishing How to Stop Dating in FoCo, I thought about how I didn’t tell the whole story.

You can’t be a person of color in a city that’s 84% white and not address the topic of identity. So here goes…

Act One: Hope
Download the Bumble app. Time to find the love of your life.

Your friend, who is a woman of color like you, says she’s been on 100 horrible first dates – mostly with white men – and “there’s nothing for you here.” Continue reading How to Stop Dating in FoCo, Part II

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Equity and Inclusion, Reviews

How to Stop Dating in FoCo, Part I: A Review of Bumble and OurTime

1. Download the Bumble app
2. Let your friend with 10 years of post-divorce dating experience help you write your bio.
3. Launch your profile on Jan 2 when hundreds (thousands?) of hopeful romantics across Colorado do the same.
4. Feel a surge of hope when you receive 52 likes the first day.
… Continue reading How to Stop Dating in FoCo, Part I: A Review of Bumble and OurTime

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Book Reviews, Movie Reviews, Music, Podcasts, Theater Reviews, TV Reviews

VANDERPUMP RULES: Drama, Drama, Drama!

I haven’t watched reality TV since the early-2000s, when Survivor, The Amazing Race, Big Brother and others were new and at the height of their popularity. (Paradise Hotel was a short-lived favorite.)

So when two friends ─ let’s call them Alice and Betty ─ invited me to indulge in their secret, guilty pleasure, Vanderpump Rules, I jumped at the chance to see what’s changed in “unscripted” entertainment, to use the industry term, over the past two decades. Continue reading VANDERPUMP RULES: Drama, Drama, Drama!

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