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September 30, 2019 | Viviana Moreno | Media
The importance of Sandy Hook Promise's new PSA

Last week, the nonprofit organization Sandy Hook Promise released a graphic back-to-school PSA entitled “Back To School Essentials.”

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September 27, 2019 | Grace Bloom | Media
Adele Lim took a stand for women of color in Hollywood

In early September, the news broke that Adele Lim, a screenwriter for the 2018 movie Crazy Rich Asians, was no longer involved with writing the next two sequels in the franchise. Why? Lim reportedly learned that while her white, male co-writer was offered between $800,000 to $1 million for this work, she was offered significantly less — around $110,000.

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September 18, 2019 | Sophie Hayssen | Feminism, Media
On the "caution" of some reporters covering the #MeToo movement

Since the start of the MeToo movement, journalists have played a key role in holding perpetrators accountable for the sexual violence they allegedly committed. Unfortunately, instead of challenging society's instinct to protect powerful men, some reporters covering #MeToo have reproduced this bias.

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September 06, 2019 | Kadin Burnett | Media
Why we should pay attention to Gen Z's use of TikTok

Gen Z makes light of things like hypothetical WWIII drafts, climate change, and the forthcoming political apocalypse because dark humor is their response to being born into a world seemingly already on fire is to laugh at the flames.

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August 21, 2019 | Gabriel Leão | Media
This new book takes on the experiences of female journalists over the decades

In the recently published book There’s No Crying in Newsrooms, award-winning journalism scholars Kristin Grady Gilger and Julia Wallace investigate how gender has shaped the experiences of female journalists.

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August 14, 2019 | June Jennings | LGBTQIA, Media
The podcast “Marsha’s Plate” centers the black trans experience

Each week, Houston-based activist Diamond Stylz and her rotating cast of co-hosts serve up candid conversations about topics ranging from gender reveal parties to the latest installment of the television show Pose from a black, trans, and feminist perspective.

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August 12, 2019 | Julie Graves | Arts and culture, Media
Mal Blum is paving the way for nonbinary transgender artists

Wry, humorous, and dark, Pity Boy captures the inner turmoil of being an LGBTQ+ adult trying to navigate relationships with family, friends, and partners; the songs on this album explore self-destructive habits, and self-doubt, that emerge from this exploration.

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August 07, 2019 | Carla Hay | Media
Discrimination suit by female journalists could send a message to TV news companies

Separate lawsuits against Charter Communications allege that the company’s Spectrum News NY1 cable channel discriminates against female reporters and anchors who are over the age of 40. The case sheds light on treatment of older women in the field of television news.

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July 24, 2019 | Mia Brett | Media
Many in media distort the framing of #MeToo

There is still too much focus on men's fears of false accusations and not enough on the serious effects of sexual harassment and assault.

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July 16, 2019 | Carla Hay | Media
YouTube stars and the glass ceiling

In the increasingly competitive world of YouTube, few women are among the top earners — and the problem seems to be getting worse.

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July 16, 2019 | Sophie Hayssen | Feminism, Media
Will Greta Gerwig realize the radical potential of ‘Little Women’?

Her adaptation of the film — the eighth — will not only highlight the feminist understones already present in the novel, but also examine the text with a modern eye, drawing on society’s increased sensitivity to gender fluidity.

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July 15, 2019 | Kadin Burnett | Media, Race/Ethnicity
On the racist backlash over Halle Bailey's casting in 'The Little Mermaid'

Many assumed the famously red-headed Ariel would remain as such in the live action version, and Halle Bailey clearly does not fit that image. Shortly after Bailey was cast, #NotMyAriel started trending on Twitter.

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July 10, 2019 | Grace Bloom | Disability, Media, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
CBS pledges to better represent individuals with disabilities

There is still a considerable disparity between the experiences of people with disabilities and the representation of them in the entertainment industry. CBS recognizes this and is one of the first major networks to commit to taking action to change it.

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July 03, 2019 Arts and culture, Media
The creative executive behind some of TV’s best female-centric shows

In an excerpt from Sarah Barnett’s interview on “Women’s Media Center Live With Robin Morgan,” which aired June 9 and is available by podcast at wmclive.com and other podcast platforms, Barnett talks about her work promoting women on screen and in TV’s executive suites.

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July 02, 2019 | Nisa Khan | Arts and culture, Media, Religion
Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf embraces the multitudes of being a Muslim woman

This film takes place in 2006, at the height of over-surveillance of Arab and Muslim communities in a post 9/11 United States and gives viewers a much-needed view into the inner life of a Muslim American teen girl.

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June 25, 2019 | Ankita Anand | Media, Violence against women
How I got a major Indian media outlet to change the way they depict sexual violence

I found that story after story included images of survivors of sexual violence that were gory and denigrating. They often depicted survivors in shredded clothes, fear-stricken eyes, and arms outstretched in appeal.

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June 17, 2019 | Montana Bass | Media, Race/Ethnicity
“When They See Us” asks white women to question our role in white patriarchy

DuVernay’s artful depiction of Linda Fairstein — prosecutor and head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office at the time of the Central Park Five case — exposes the process through which white women’s pain can be used as a pawn for white patriarchy.

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June 12, 2019 | Trish Bendix | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Media
50 years after Stonewall, a new media landscape for queer women

Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.

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June 12, 2019 | Catherine K. | Arts and culture, Media
Has The Handmaid’s Tale's depiction of violence against women gone too far?

Now that season 3 has premiered (it came out on June 5), it’s worth asking: Is it fair to characterize these depictions of violence against women in season 2 as “torture porn” and dismiss watching this season or any future seasons, or did those depictions have value?

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June 11, 2019 | Kalli Jackson | Arts and culture, Media, Race/Ethnicity
‘When They See Us’ and the delicate balance of depicting black trauma

Who gets to tell stories of black trauma and how and when should they tell them?

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June 05, 2019 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture, Media
A year after pledge for parity, progress slow for women in film festivals

Film festivals are being held more accountable for not showing enough work by female directors. Here’s how some of the major festivals are doing since the 5050x2020 pledge.

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May 30, 2019 | Aviva Stahl | LGBTQIA, Media
New report on LGBTQ representation in film reveals promising news

The media monitoring organization GLAAD recently released the 2019 edition of their Studio Responsibility Index, an annual report that this year found that of 110 films released in 2018, 20 (or 18.2 percent) of them included LGBTQ characters, the second-highest percentage on record. None of these characters, however, were transgender or non-binary.

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May 28, 2019 | Garnett Achieng | International, Media, Violence against women
The problem with how Kenyan media covers femicide

On April 9, 2019, Ivy Wangechi, a sixth-year medical student at Moi University in Kenya, was murdered. Like many stories of femicides that came before Wangechi’s, the media’s depiction of this murder was problematic.

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May 23, 2019 | Elaine Zhu | Body image and body standards, Media
Anti-aging advertisements are getting old

Why do women buy into anti-aging promises that seek to stop life’s most natural process? The answer lies within the ingrained ageist and gender stereotypes that are woven deep in society that negatively affect women’s self-perception, creating the belief that they need to buy these anti-aging products.

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May 10, 2019 | Gabriel Leão | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media
Anime Feminist celebrates and critiques the growing genre

Anime is one of Japan’s main cultural exports and a large part of its cultural identity, but feminists have pointed out that the genre has long had a problematic relationship with gender and racial representations. The site Anime Feminist, founded by U.K native Amelia Cook, analyzes diversity and representation in this art form.

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