Television vs. the Movies: Which Does Better by Women? by Lisa Wade at Pacific Standard
Women’s Films and Social Change by Maggie Hennefeld at Highbrow Magazine
Girls on Film: 8 femme-centric movies from the Toronto International Film Festival by Monika Bartyzel at The Week
Toronto: ’12 Years a Slave’ Wins Audience Award by Etan Vlessing at The Hollywood Reporter
Double Consciousness in Lee Daniels’ The Butler by Jonathan Harrison at Sociological Images
Oprah’s Oscar Buzz and Hollywood’s ‘Sassy Black Lady’ Problem by Akash Nikolas at The Atlantic
Is There Any Satisfying Way to End a Modern Drama? by Matt Zoller Seitz at Vulture
Riddick Me This: What’s Sexism Got to Do With Monsters? by Zev Chevat at The Mary Sue
My Life as a Warrior Princess by Jennifer Sky at The New York Times
Michelle Maclaren, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, And How TV’s Female Action Directors Are Showing Up Movies by Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress
Danai Gurira talks Mother of George by Wilson Morales at blackfilm.com
My Summer With Agent Scully by Sarah Mirk at Bitch Media
Salon Pictures Announces Slate of Women Directed Films by Kate Wilson at Women and Hollywood
‘Stay in the Love’: An Interview With Laverne Cox of ‘Orange Is the New Black’ by Christopher Carbone at The Nation
Shonda Rhimes to Produce New Show with Scandal’s Dan Bucatinsky by Von Diaz at Colorlines
Why won’t cinema embrace female superheroes? by Al Moloney at BBC
The Feminist Power of Female Ghosts by Andi Zeisler at Bitch Media
Do We Really Need a Feminist Press? by Leora Tanenbaum at The Huffington Post
Books on the Boob Tube: 10 New Fall Shows Based on Books by Joanna Scutts at Word & Film
The six ways we talk about a teenage girl’s age by Soraya Chemaly at Salon
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