the 2020 Emmy nominations were announced. I wasn’t talking about the perfect supportive Instagram response from one cast member to their newly-nominated co-star, or a Netflix show that hadn’t gotten a nod.
Instead, I was celebrating tracking down a single Latinx woman besides white actress Alexis Bledel — whose grandfather is Argentinian — who was nominated for a 2020 Emmy Award.
There are 28 major Emmy categories. The gender imbalance is staggering.The woman I found is Linda Mendoza. She directed Tiffany Haddish’s Netflix stand-up event, They Ready, is Mexican-American, and nominated in the Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series category, which is outside the core 28 races.
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