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Mad Men: Set Me Free

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White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games

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5 Movie Characters That Changed the Way We View Women

Social Media: Is It Too Feminine?

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women

Top 20 Fierce Women, Numbers 15-11

Future of Feminism: Girls and Women, Don't Be Camera-Shy!

Women on Film: How to Rebel

Sexist TV: A Spotter's Guide

Geena Davis: If Girls Can See It, They Can Be It

I See White People: Hunger Games and a Brief History of Cultural Whitewashing

'16 and Pregnant' Brings Abortion to Primetime

Racist Hunger Games Fans Illustrate All that's Wrong with the World

'Two and a Half Men' Co-Creator is Rebuked for Remarks About Women

Hollywood's Female Trouble: Part 2, The Directors

Transgender Women in Puerto Rico Featured in New Documentary

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Where Are the Women? National Magazine Award Edition

"Ashley Judd, Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lawrence vs. Our Toxic Misogynist Culture"

"The Hunger Games, Hollywood and Fighting Fuck Toys"

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"The Hunger Games' Feral Feminism"

"The Five Most Pathetic Female Film Characters of All Time"

Betty Draper Francis Needs Your ... Ice Cream? A Few Notes on the Evil TV Ex-Wife

What to Make of Barbie's Presidential Run

"Pull up your skirt to prove you're a real woman"

The Hunger Games Movie vs. The Book

Future of Feminism: The Complete Works

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Why You Should Get Excited About Next Big-Screen Heroine -- Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling

Tavi Gevinson: "Feminism is not a rulebook but a discussion"

Lena Dunham Interview, Part One: What Girls Is Made Of

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Are Evil Stepmothers the New Anti-Hero? 

Hillary's Hair: More Newsworthy Than the Summit of the Americas?

People on the Internet Can Be Hella Racist

We Heart: Funny or Die Counsels Rick Santorum on "Aborting" His Campaign

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Kristin Marcon & 'The Most Fun You Can Have Dying'

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Daenerys Targaryen and the Most Powerful Women in Television History
 
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Condescending Dude Review of Hunger Games

HBO's 'Girls' Is All About Spoiled White Girls

Girls That Television Will Never Know

When 'Art' Goes Wrong: Black Women's Pain Is Not a Prop

Why We Need to Keep Talking About the White Girls on Girls

Film Women Shining at Tribeca Fest

Girls Just Want to Change the Needle On a Tired Media Record: Stop Telling Us We're Fat

The Other Girls and Diversity Goals for Pop Culture

Yes, I'm Buying the Katniss Everdeen Barbie For My Daughter


Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia Launch Web Series and Shorts to Explore 'Female Characters'

Woman with a Lens Restored: The Shirley Clarke Project

The Status of Women's Film Festivals

How to Lose Your Virginity

Seventeen Magazine Says Thanks But No Thanks to Teen's Photoshop Petition

Brit Marling On Sexual Assault as a Default Obstacle for Heroines

Pariah Director Dee Rees to Helm Indie Love Story This Man, This Woman

Female Reviewer Gets Attacked for Avengers Review 

What If the Male Avengers Posed Like the Female One?

Where Do We Go Now?: A Dramedy About Women Trying to Stop War

The Aristocrats: The Graphic Arts of "Game of Thrones" 

Girls' Choice Movie Awards Survey for Adults

The Nerve of Lena Dunham

Geena Davis: Movies' View of Women Is Unbalanced

Hollywood's War on Women

Take Action: Anti-Trans Victim Blaming in The New York Times

Females Grossly Underrepresented and Misrepresented in Top Grossing Films of 2011

Zoe Saldana Angry About Lack of Diversity on Magazine Covers

The Upfronts: Race and Gender in Fall Television

On Our Radar: Push Girls

New TV Shows Created By Women for 2012-2013

Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Ethical Style: Vogue's Ban on Underage, Unhealthy Models Won't Solve Its Image Problem 

That's My Boy -- The Adam Sandler Film Switched at Birth

Film Corner! [a commentary on Snow White and the Huntsman]

Janet Jackson to Produce Transgender Documentary, 'Truth' 

Christina Hendricks Talks Joan, Feminism, and Bitches in The Hollywood Reporter

Is There a Male Equivalent to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl?

Emma Cowing: The Brave New World of Movie Feminism

'Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding': Finally, a Film Gets New Feminism

Woman: The Other Alien in Alien

Ten Reasons NOT to See Snow White and the Huntsman

Crying Sexism as the Answer to an Under-Performing Film

Quote of the Day: "Why? Why? Why? Don't They Want the Money?"

Study Confirms That TV Makes All Kids, Except Little White Boys, Feel Bad

How Girls Challenges the Masculine Expectations of "Good TV"

Audra McDonald Becomes First Black Actress to Win Five Tony Awards

Good Riddance, Offensive GoDaddy Commericals

Violence Against Women Disguised as Fashion


Brave: Pixar's Feminist Fantasy

Nike Celebrates Women in Sport with Voices Film

Women's Film Festivals

How Girls Challenges the Masculine Expectations of "Good TV"

I Literally Cannot Stop Laughing at This; I Think My Brain Might Be Broken?

Quote of the Day: I Wanted to Give Girls Something To Look at and Not Feel Inadequate

Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home

An Open Letter to the Guys Who Told Me They Want to See Lara Croft Get Raped

Gretchen Carlson Walks Off 'Fox and Friends' After Brian Kilmeade's Sexist Comment (Video)

Adam Carolla Thinks Women Aren't Funny

Magazine Unconvincingly Defends Violent Editorial, Calls Critics Sexist

Kelly MacDonald Talks Voicing Merida in Brave; Her Own Childhood Heroines

Girls Season One Ends: Check Out This Interview with Lena Dunham 

Must We Worry About the Boys of 'Brave'?

Why I Heart GIRLS & Lena Dunham's Body

TV Trailer Watch: Steel Magnolias

Nora Ephron, Prolific Author and Screenwriter, Dies at Age 71

Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny

Helen Mirren Calls for More Female Film-makers

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Cross-Post: Oscar Flashback: Nora Ephron

Magic Mike: Old Sexism in a New Package



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Thank God Rachel Maddow Is Depressed

Feminist with a Funny Bone

Seventeen Magazine's New Photoshop Policy Is the Same as The Old Photoshop Policy

Louis C.K. Bucks Casting Trends with Susan Kelechi Watson

'Strong Female Protagonist' Takes on Superhero Comics -- and Occupy Wall Street

Amy Poehler Interviews Tiny Feminists, Inspires Us

Memo to Hollywood: Women Go to the Movies Too 

Daniel Tosh Is a Rape Culture Enforcer

Sheila Heti, Lena Dunham, and the Challenges of Telling "Girly" Stories in Film and Television

Let's Talk About Sexism in Movie Reviews, You Guys!

When Rape Jokes Are Never Funny

NBC's New Head Drama Exec is a Black Woman



Teens Protest 'Teen Vogue' Photoshop Use; Editors "Rude" in Response

Nicki Minaj on Sexism in the Music Industry

Do You Laugh at Rape Jokes?

Cross-Post: In Mainstream Films, Dead Moms Don't Count

J Lo Bringing Lesbian Moms to ABC Family
 
'Brave' Still Teaching Girls the Wrong Lessons

Comic-Con 2012: Sexism in Hollywood: How Far Have We Come?

Will Catwoman Be a Breakout Feminist Character?

"Nice Guys" Contribute to Rape Culture

Women in Film by the Numbers

From 'The Lion King' to 'Brave,' Making Mothers Matter in Pop Culture

Bear, Bow, And Boy: Queering Pixar's "Brave"

If Women Ran Hollywood

All the Funny Ladies: What the Emmy Nominations Tell Us About a Year of Women in Comedy

Considering the Rape Culture

'Political Animals' and Women's Power Fantasies

Louis C.K. on Daniel Tosh's Rape Joke: Are Comedy and Feminism Enemies? 

Filmmakers Find Surprises at an Islamic School for Girls in Syria

A New Sleeping Beauty Adaptation Will Feature a Stalker Take on the Classic Tale

'Brave' Part II: The Radical Re-Writing of the Mother-Daughter Relationship
 
The Savior and the Vandal: Jerusalem Film Festival and Religious Fundamentalism

Dear, Aaron Sorkin: Someone Please Fix You

Haters Need to Shut the Hell Up About Gabby Douglas' Hair

Gabby Douglas Leads Team USA to the Gold

Sisters in Cinema: Where Are the Black Female Directors?

"It's Hard to Find Female Leads that Are Flawed and Interesting and Dynamic"

Please Submit All Ethnicities: The Tricky Business of Writing Casting Notices

Gender Matters: The Sight and Sound Top 50 Films of All Time List



Tippi Hedren Recalls Alfred Hitchcock's Harassment for HBO's The Girl 



Bachorlette and the Toll Weddings take on Female Friendships

The XXX Olympics Brings With It a New Tradition: Internet Misogyny Fest 2012

Favorite Women-Empowering Movies of Recent Memory

What Are the Greatest Movies Directed by Women?

What's Wrong With the Media Coverage of Women Olympians?

Why Only One Female Director Made Sight & Sound's Greatest Films List

TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope; Geek Feminism Wiki Steps In

I'll Make the Entertainment I Want to See

Five Marvel Superheroines Who Would Make for Great ABC Television Shows

2012 Olympics Media Needs to Get Over Policing Female Athletes' Bodies

Belgium Film on Street Harassment Strikes a Chord Across Europe

The Public Shaming of Kristen Stewart

Quick Tropes vs Women Project Update 

Olympic Women Succeed, But Is It Really Fair Play? 

NBC's Bizarre Attempt to Turn Female Olympians Into Eye Candy 

Sexism, Racism and Swimming at the London 2012 Olympics 

Round Table: Julie Delpy, Ava DuVernay and Leslye Headland on Directing 

The LA Times Talks to Three Women Directors - Where Is the Female Equivalent of Woody Allen? 

'Boston Herald' vs. Elizabeth Warren: 'The Nation' Asks, Will Sexism Win or Lose? 

Read the Definitive Meryl Matrix 

Street Harassment Fuels a Viral Documentary 

 

 
 



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The Science of Racism: Radiolab's Treatment of the Hmong Experience

Oscar 2012: Best Actress, Old and Young

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Feminism Friday: Sexism, Misogyny and Dictionaries

 

Bond Girls, Action Heroes, Sexuality and Power 

Question Time: Women & Screenplays

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She's Beautiful When She's Angry

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London Feminist Film Festival tickets now on sale!

Random Nerd Nostalgia: Wonder Woman for President

Catching Up With Molly Ringwald

Portraying the Women Behind the Powerful Men

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TV Show "Girls" Does More for Feminism Than Sex & the City Ever Did

Backlot Bitch: Flight Beyond Stereotypes

Martha Plimpton: Why Hollywood Activism Matters

The 6 Best Moments for Women in the 2012 Election

Skyfall Unquestioningly Belongs to Dame Judi Dench

Television Interview About Harassment in Gaming

Sexism in Hollywood: Where Are the Women in Argo?

The End of the Bond Girl and the Rise of the Bond Woman