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WMC News & Features
August 23, 2018 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, Disability, Media, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Why Hollywood’s diversity numbers haven’t budged

The latest report on diversity and inclusion in film shows little progress over the last 11 years. Marcie Bianco explores why there has been such stagnation, and what it will take to move the needle.

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August 03, 2018 | Ellen Ricks | Girls, Media
The villainization of eating disorders in popular culture

Popular but vicious characters like Regina George in Mean Girls, the spoiled but well-meaning protagonist Cher Horowitz in Clueless, and ambitious, cunning Blair Waldorf (Queen B of the Upper East Side) in Gossip Girl are all as beautiful, wealthy, self-centered, and ambitious as they come. There’s also another trait they all share, however, a trait that seems to be a key element of the “popular girl” trope: signs of have an eating disorder.

WMC FBomb
August 01, 2018 | Julie Graves | LGBTQIA, Media
An interview with the hosts of “Nancy,” a podcast made by queer folk for queer folk

As season 3 of the “Nancy” podcast from WNYC Studios comes to a close, co-hosts Kathy Tu and Tobin Low took some time to tell the FBomb about their show, their lives, and which Queer Eye character they would be.

WMC FBomb
July 31, 2018 | Kadin Burnett | LGBTQIA, Media
Why trans actors should get the chance to play trans characters

The Scarlett Johansson incident was hardly the first time a cisgender actor was criticized for taking a role many believe should have gone to a trans actor. In fact, a pattern of cisgender actors being cast as, and then inevitably critically acclaimed and rewarded for playing, transgender characters has emerged over the past few years.

WMC FBomb
July 30, 2018 | Kadin Burnett | Media
Henry Cavill and rethinking courtship post-#MeToo

Neither the #MeToo movement, nor the basic acknowledgment of a woman’s agency, decrees the death of romance. The refusal to let go of traditional courtship, however, illustrates not just Cavill’s, but many straight men’s, inability to accept the possibility, let alone reality, of a shift in the balance of power between men and women and their equation of that shift in balance with the “death” of dating.

WMC FBomb
July 19, 2018 | Maria Carolina Treitler Paixão | Arts and culture, Media
How 'GLOW' pushes back on age-old stereotypes about women in media

On the surface, the Netflix hit GLOW is a show about the making of a show — specifically, the 1980s TV show “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” (G.L.O.W.) that inspired the series. But beneath this plot lies a far more interesting exploration of women’s experiences in the entertainment industry, and in the world at large, in the 1980s through a modern lens.

WMC News & Features
July 18, 2018 | Rebecca Nagle | Media, Race/Ethnicity
Research reveals media role in stereotypes about Native Americans

A groundbreaking new report shows that the American public is deeply ignorant about Native Americans, and calls on media to improve its coverage.

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June 25, 2018 | Kadin Burnett | Media
The problem with this season of 'The Bachelorette'

Closure is one thing, but concocting an entire series based on the constant reminder — and, in the aforementioned case, physical destruction — of one’s past partner directly places this past relationship, and inherent to that, her past partner, as the cornerstone of Becca’s journey to find love is disempowering to Becca as a multidimensional person.

WMC News & Features
June 12, 2018 | Rebecca Nagle | Media, Race/Ethnicity
Media representation of Native women: invisibility, stereotypes, whitewashing

Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is just the latest in a long history of films and TV shows that have perpetuated stereotypes while failing to give opportunities to Native women.

WMC News & Features
June 04, 2018 | Kristal Brent Zook | Media
What we don’t know about diversity in newsrooms

A new study finds little diversity on political news teams, but researchers are left with more questions.

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June 04, 2018 | Lindz Amer | LGBTQIA, Media
Why I make queer videos for kids

As a kid, I did not understand queerness, although I undoubtedly embodied it in many ways. I wish I’d had an educational resource to help me understand and feel comfortable about my queerness much earlier in my life. So I made one. Queer Kid Stuff is an LGBTQ+ educational YouTube series for kids ages 3+ (but really, it’s for all ages).

WMC FBomb
May 30, 2018 | Julie Zeilinger | Free Speech, Media
An interview with Cynthia Lowen, director of online harassment documentary ‘Netizens’

Even though women have been speaking out about their experiences with online harassment for years, there is still so much we don’t understand about how harassment truly permeates and shapes the lives of its victims. Filmmaker Cynthia Lowen decided to explore this phenomenon in the new documentary “Netizens.”

WMC Women Under Siege
May 25, 2018 | Gabriel Leão | International, Media, Misogyny
Fired for having a baby

Brazilian TV star Barbara Thomaz says she was fired after taking maternity leave and reporting harassment by one of her superiors. Her experience isn't unusual.

WMC FBomb
May 22, 2018 | Caterina Viscito | Arts and culture, Media
The problem with asking women to create their own representation

When we talk about increasing and diversifying female representation in Hollywood, it seems it is women who feel the most pressure, who feel the most responsible, to counterbalance this misrepresentation by giving voices to a wide range of characters of different colors, ages, sexualities, and backgrounds.

WMC News & Features
May 17, 2018 | Dr. Martha Lauzen | Media
Women and film festivals: Promises are easy, change is hard

As Cannes promises more inclusion, a new study finds that women continue to be underrepresented at film festivals.

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May 16, 2018 | Lauren Davidson | Arts and culture, Media
Janelle Monáe, ‘Dirty Computer,’ and exploring social deviance

Monáe’s new album navigates the myriad emotions involved in being socially deviant and outcast for that deviance.

WMC News & Features
April 20, 2018 | Frances Nguyen | Media
Study of local TV news leaves diversity picture incomplete

News directors say they want to connect with their communities. Hiring diverse staff is key to achieving this goal.

WMC FBomb
April 13, 2018 | Chloe Hallinan | Media, Race/Ethnicity
This new web series is smashing the imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy

Gabby Antonio Smashes the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy! is a web series that challenges systems of oppression in both its production and its content.

WMC News & Features
April 10, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Free Speech, Media, Politics
Is Big Brother coming for the press?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and build a database that it enables it to track and search journalists, editors, and “media influencers” based on their beat and past work.

WMC FBomb
March 30, 2018 | Gabriel Leão | Arts and culture, Media
First Match: the story of a teen girl competing on an all-boys wrestling team

First Match (2018), the first feature film by writer-director Olivia Newman, tells the story of Monique a girl who competes on an all-boys wrestling team while simultaneously juggling the foster care system, school, and getting back in touch with her absent father.

WMC News & Features
March 29, 2018 | Yanick Rice Lamb | Media, Race/Ethnicity
50 years after the Kerner Commission, little progress for people of color in media

The commission found that lack of representation fueled media stereotypes and distortions. Half a century later, those stereotypes persist.

WMC FBomb
March 26, 2018 | Kadin Burnett | Arts and culture, Media
Guess Who?: #MeToo Edition

Sexual harassment is no laughing matter, but a recent Funny or Die sketch has managed to add some humor (dark though it may be) to the plague of sexual misconduct that spawned the #MeToo movement.

WMC News & Features
March 16, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Benét Wilson

The last in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

WMC News & Features
March 15, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Maria Hinojosa

The fifth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

WMC News & Features
March 14, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Jenni Monet

The fourth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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