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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Ms. Male Characer – Tropes vs Women in Video Games at Feminist Frequency (Anita Sarkeesian)

Ava DuVernay On Directing “Scandal” And The Universality of Black Film by ReBecca Theodore-Vachon at The Urban Daily

5 Movies From 2013 That Shouldn’t Have Passed The Bechdel Test by Rachael Roth at Bust

Q. & A. – Kathleen Hanna on Love, Illness and the Life-Affirming Joy of Punk Rock by Matt Diehl at The New York Times

Q&A with Guinevere Turner, Director of Upcoming LGBT-Centric Film “Creeps” by Marie-Helene Westgate at Bitch Media

CBS Program “Mike and Molly” Says F*ck You To LGBT Community by Sue Kerr at Pittsburg Lesbian Correspondents 

Two Very Different Movies, Two Heroines With Spine by Bob Mondello at NPR

Year End Roundtables and Best of Lists Highlight the Lack of Gender Diversity in Films by Melissa Silverstein at Forbes 

Will This Year Cure Hollywood’s ‘Selective Amnesia’ With Black Filmmakers? by Lucas Shaw at The Wrap

AFI: Roundup of the Women-Directed Foreign Language Oscar Entries by Mary Cummins at Women and Hollywood

Bringing out Baby Jane: camp, sympathy, and the 1960s horror-woman’s film by David Greven at Jump Cut

Bettie Page Reveals All by Sheila O’Malley at RogerEbert.com

10 Music Videos That Mock or Smash or Satirize or Reject The Patriarchy at Autostraddle

Feministing @ Kickstarter (fund-raising for site re-launch)

 

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