Amber’s Picks:
GOP women contribute importantly to the political landscape — with their looks via About-Face
The Man Who Loved Movies (and Women) Andrew Sarris Honored by MoMA, American Academy of Arts & Letters by Penelope Andrew via HuffPost
Our Reality: Teen Parents Telling Their Own Stories by Emily Manuel via Tiger Beatdown
Consciousness-raising and difference in The Woman’s Film (1971) and Self-Health (1974) by Shilya Warren via Jump Cut
Amy Poehler and Meryl Streep Are Pissed About Attacks on Reproductive Rights by Amanda Marcotte via Slate’s XX Factor
Yes, There Are Fat Women Getting Hollywood Roles…But We Still Treat Them Like Crap by Lindy West via Jezebel
Nashville, and Why All Female Rivalries Aren’t Catfights by Alyssa Rosenberg via ThinkProgress
Middle of Nowhere and the Black Independent Film Movement by Roya Rastegar via The Huffington Post
“Your Women are Oppressed, But Ours Are Awesome”: How Nicholas Kristof and Half the Sky Use Women Against Each Other by Sayantani DasGupta via Racialicious
Women on TV Step Off the Scale by Allessandra Stanley via The New York Times
Could Issa Rae Save the Black Sitcom? by Jason Parham via The Atlantic
10 Reasons We Won’t Participate in the Lena Dunham Backlash by Emma Gray and Margaret Wheeler Johnson via The Huffington Post
Why Dredd Is Really a Superheroine Movie by Alyssa Rosenberg via ThinkProgress
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