Megan‘s Picks:
“No Love in the Wild” [on Beasts of the Southern Wild] by bell hooks via NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Black Power Takes Center Stage at TIFF with Angela Davis Documentary by Melissa Silverstein via Women and Hollywood
Fox Host to Scarlett Johansson: “You’re Worth Millions” — Pay for Your Friends’ Contraceptives “Instead of Asking Me” via RH Reality Check
Gender, Power, and Chris Brown’s Battered Woman Tattoo by Lisa Wade via Sociological Images
James Cameron: ‘Hollywood Gets Action Women Wrong’ by Hadley Freeman via The Guardian
From Lena Dunham to Junot Diaz, How to Write People Who Aren’t You by Alyssa Rosenberg via ThinkProgress
Mandy Patinkin Left Criminal Minds Over Show’s Subversive Misogyny by Alex Cranz via FemPop
Everything You Need to Know About SNL’s New Lady Cast Members by Intern Scarlett via Bust Magazine
Amy Poehler Teaches You to Feel Better About Your Body by Lindy West via Jezebel
Stephanie‘s Picks:
‘Marigold’ and ‘Moonrise’: Summer 2012 Indie B.O. Champs by Scott Myers via Go Into the Story
TIFF Programmer Dishes on Film Roles for Women, George Clooney and Saying No by Derek Carkner via CityNews Toronto
Is Parks and Rec the Most Feminist Show on TV? by Emily Heist Moss via Rosie Says
Beginning to See by Karina Longworth via Slate
Feminist Africa Issue 16. 2012: African Feminist Engagements with Film via African Gender Institute
A Woman Among Warlords via Indiegogo
In Defense of “Bachelorette’s” Mean Girls by Willa Paskin via Salon
The New New Girl: Mindy Kaling Promotes Herself Out of The Office and Into The Mindy Project by Jada Yuan via Vulture