This year's Oscars, like every year, will be a veritable stampede of women and men who are black, brown, yellow, red and everything in between, of all ages, shapes and sizes, speaking multiple languages in addition to English. On the day of the ceremony and for many hours afterwards valets, security guards, caterers, cleaners, ushers and other workers will be called up in their hundreds by the academy to work hard for low pay, invisible but so very vital, to facilitate the world's biggest dream machine: Hollywood.
The Guardian: The Oscars celebrates white men. What about the rest of us?
\u2018The Oscar statuette is a gilded white man holding a sword - basically, a phallus holding a phallus.'
