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WMC News & Features
April 30, 2020 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture
Female-focused documentaries: The ultimate double-feature guide

More documentary films by and about women are getting awards recognition and finding sizeable audiences. Here is a list of docs, released over the last year, that are available for streaming.

WMC News & Features
April 22, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Arts and culture, Race/Ethnicity
Land O’Lakes finally drops Native American ‘maiden’ from packaging

It’s taken nearly 100 years, but the Land O’Lakes company has finally removed the image of a kneeling Native American woman—nicknamed “Mia”—from its packaging.

WMC News & Features
March 24, 2020 | Treva Lindsey | Arts and culture, Media, Race/Ethnicity
African American women are history makers. Here’s a list of must-reads!

These recent works by Black women historians challenge conventional narratives of the history of the United States.

WMC News & Features
March 11, 2020 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture
New film shows harsh realities of abortion restrictions

In the powerful new film "Never Rarely Sometimes Always," a teenager has to cross state lines to seek abortion care.

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March 11, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Arts and culture, Violence against women
France is still grappling with its #MeToo movement

On February 28, The César Awards, which are essentially the French Oscars, awarded the Best Director honor to Roman Polanski — a man who fled the United States after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

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March 04, 2020 | Regiane Folter | Arts and culture, Feminism
Feminist zines are still alive and well

To this day, feminist zines are still a considerable presence in the zine universe.

WMC News & Features
February 27, 2020 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA
In “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” a feminist politics of love

The new film by Céline Sciamma places equality at the center of a love story.

WMC News & Features
February 11, 2020 | Elayne Clift | Arts and culture
Museums offer “mea culpa” and showcase multimedia women artists

Some large art museums are starting to address the glaring underrepresentation of women artists and artists of color.

WMC News & Features
February 04, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Arts and culture
SAG-AFTRA creates guidelines for film, TV ‘intimacy coordinators’

As of January 29, there is a code of conduct set in writing for how simulated sex scenes in movies and TV should be conducted.

WMC News & Features
January 30, 2020 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture
New film shows realities of working for a Weinstein-like boss

In creating the movie ”The Assistant,” writer/director Kitty Green interviewed more than 100 women who worked or had worked at Weinstein’s companies, as well as women at other studios and agencies.

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January 23, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Arts and culture
The Revolutionary Way ‘Little Women’ Portrays Self-Love

These characters’ journeys expose our culture’s ridiculous link between relationship status and total happiness

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January 16, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Arts and culture, Media
Women in film made history in 2019. So why weren’t they recognized?

2019 was a banner year for women in the entertainment industry. But female filmmakers are still unable to break the “celluloid ceiling.”

WMC News & Features
January 15, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Arts and culture
This week’s winners in the arts: men

It’s awards season. Which means it is again the time of year in which women realize they’ve been snubbed, blocked, ignored, skipped over…however you want to put it, it’s the season in which women are consistently losers to the patriarchy, and this year is no different.

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January 10, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Arts and culture, Media
Women directors are working more than ever, but aren't being recognized

No women were nominated in the category of Best Director at the Golden Globes even though there were more women-directed top-grossing movies in 2019 than in any year before.

WMC News & Features
January 08, 2020 | Carmen Rios | Arts and culture, Education
In new program, Patrisse Cullors will help artists find “the language of protest”

The Black Lives Matter co-founder is directing a new program for artists that connects creativity and activism.

WMC News & Features
January 02, 2020 | Dr. Martha Lauzen | Arts and culture, Media
A race to irrelevance for the Golden Globes and Academy Awards

The continued exclusion of female talent shows that major awards are based not on merit but on the biases of individuals.

WMC News & Features
December 18, 2019 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture, Media
Despite pledge, most film festivals fall far short of parity

Although several major film festivals have pledged to have equal representation for female directors by 2020, progress has been slow. Here is our year-end follow-up to our midyear report on how they are doing.

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December 18, 2019 | Kadin Burnett | Arts and culture
Why we all need to be challenged by 'Waves'

Waves is rare in its willingness to present a blurred marriage of volatility and sympathy without preaching or suggesting anything to the viewer. The movie itself crashes down on the audience like a wave, putting viewers in a state of constant unrest.

WMC News & Features
December 04, 2019 | Kendall Hunter | Arts and culture, Media
Tantoo Cardinal breaks new ground for indigenous women in television

Cardinal's role in ABC's Stumptown — a tough, complex CEO — is one of the most prominent indigenous characters ever to appear on U.S. television.

WMC News & Features
November 14, 2019 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, Disability, LGBTQIA, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Marriage equality crusader’s memoir shatters stereotypes

In her posthumous memoir, Edie Windsor details her vivacious sex life and in the process shatters stereotypes not only about lesbians but about older women in general.

WMC News & Features
October 22, 2019 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture, Media
New York Comic Con signals progress for women in sci-fi

Showcases at New York Comic Con, an annual event for pop culture fans, indicate that the future is getting brighter for on-camera female representation in superhero/sci-fi films and TV. Behind the camera, progress has been much slower.

WMC Women Under Siege
October 15, 2019 | Ann Deslandes | Arts and culture, Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Misogyny, Violence against women
Mexico’s #MeToo reckoning is on its way, starting with its comedy scene

As the #MeToo movement steadily grows throughout Mexico, with thousands of actions, collectives, and ongoing projects in operation throughout the country, women are finding their power to fight back and build a society in which their lives are not in constant danger.

WMC News & Features
October 03, 2019 | Natalia Muñoz | Arts and culture, Media, Race/Ethnicity
Latinos in popular films almost nonexistent

Even though Latinos are 18.3 percent of the U.S. population, research has found that only 4.5 percent of all speaking characters in top films are Latino — a number that has changed little over the years.

WMC News & Features
September 27, 2019 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture
“Dance Nation”: Female adolescent ambition unleashed

Playwright Clare Barron's new work explores how girls and women often feel they can’t openly go after what they want.

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September 20, 2019 | Rebone Masemola | Arts and culture, Race/Ethnicity
The importance of Black Twitter

Black Twitter is generally known as a space for responses to cultural events and light-hearted humor. But it is also a genuinely critical space for black intellectuals and influencers, providing them a unique platform to explore the nuances of black Americans' lived experiences.

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