Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks

Check out what we’ve been reading this week–and let us know what you’ve been reading/writing in the comments!

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The Gender Gap in Screen Time: Cinemetrics Extracts Statistical Data From Movies by Kevin B. Lee at The New York Times

Lupita Nyong’o Delivers Powerful Speech On Colorism, Self-Love [VIDEO] at NewsOne

Lifetime’s “Preachers’ Daughters” Shows Everything That is Wrong with Purity Culture by Wagatwe at Feministing

Top Quotes from ESSENCE’s Black Women in Hollywood Red Carpet by Sylvia Obell at Essence

Grading Hollywood: The Representation Test by Imran Siddiquee at The Representation Project

New Academy President Pushes for More Diverse Voting Members by Mandalit Del Barco at Code Switch

How the Demise of the Romantic Comedy Will Affect Women by Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood

How “Girls” Explores Entitlement, Talent, and Failure by Kerensa Cadenas at Bitch Media

Interview: Yoruba Richen On Interesectionality of Race, Sexuality in ‘The New Black’ (At Film Forum) by Nijla Mumin at Shadow and Act

The Oscar Statue is Modeled After a Mexican Immigrant by Jamilah King at Colorlines 

“Broad City” Creators Talk About Comedy Writing and Their Hit Show by Phoebe Robinson at Bitch Media

 

What have you been reading/writing this week? Tell us in the comments!