Watch online: MAKERS – Women in Comedy
Siskel and Ebert made their own ‘tropes vs. women’ video in 1980 by Ben Kuchera at Polygon
8 Incredible Female Directed films at VIFF
What Country’s Film Industry Has the Best Gender Equity? by Sarah Mirk at Bitch Media
Issa Rae’s Color Creative Calls for TV Diversity by Margeaux Johnson at Ebony
12 Times Leslie Knope Totally Nailed Being a Feminist by Isis Madrid at GOOD
Does Television Spanglish Need A Rewrite? by Jasmine Garsd at NPR
So, What Kind of Girl Is She? The Critics’ Appraisal of Lena Dunham by Maggie Lange at Vulture
The NFL’s Domestic Violence Problem and Our Race Problem by Jessica Luther at Vice Sports
Another day, another incongruous casting choice: Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco by Soraya Nadia McDonald at The Washington Post
Three New Sci-Fi Epics With Female Protagonists in Development by Inkoo Kang at Women and Hollywood
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