The Last Amazon by Jill Lepore at The New Yorker

Women on TV Making Headway? Not So Much by Michele Kort at Ms. blog

TV Directing Still Dominated by White Men, New DGA Report Finds. No Real Improvement in Diversity Hiring Practices During Past 4 Years by Tambay A. Obenson at Shadow and Act

Bloody Handprints: What Comes After Domestic Violence in Television and Life by Arielle Bernstein at Press Play

‘New York Times’ Reduces Shonda Rhimes’ Characters to Unfair Angry Black Women Stereotype by Kadeen Griffiths at Bustle

Why #LessClassicallyBeautiful Is the Most Important Thing You’ll See on the Internet Today by Nikki Ogunnaike at Glamour‘s Lipstick blog

The Most Feminist Moments in Sci-fi History by Devon Maloney at The Cut

Victim Blaming at the Miss America Pageant by Emilly Prado at Bitch Media

Laverne Cox to Premiere New Documentary, The T Word by Mitch Kellaway at Advocate

7 Life Lessons I Learned From the Ladies of “Twin Peaks” by Mollie Hawkins at xoJane

Watch: Lupita Nyong’o teaches Elmo about skin by Maya at Feministing

Deepika Padukone: Why Bollywood stars are speaking out on sexism by Geeta Pandey at BBC

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Among 2014 MacArthur Genius Grant Winners by Arit John at The Wire

‘Mindy’ And ‘New Girl’ Navigate Their Worlds Of Crazy Love by Linda Holmes at NPR

It’s Been A Bad Week for Football by Corinne Gaston at Ms. blog

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