‘Oppenheimer’ and the Work of Wives
In Oppenheimer, Nolan’s depiction of atomic history is credited to one man. We sometimes see women and wives, albeit as a backdrop. Emily Blunt and Frances Pugh do great work with very few words...
View ArticleListen to Black Women! A Review of ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
The Exorcist: Believer employs its Caribbean-based opening scene not to locate an "origin" for demonic possession, but to follow an actual blessing in the form of a protection spell over an unborn...
View Article‘The Way We Were’: Eve Merriam and the Hidden History of American Feminism
The Way We Were premiered in 1973. Today, audiences are still drawn to the film’s unlikely romance. In creating the character of Katie, screenwriter Arthur Laurents drew on memories of classmate Eva...
View ArticleThe Last Salem Witch Has Been Exonerated
More than 300 years after the Salem witch trials, a class of middle schoolers helped exonerate the sole remaining woman legally classified as a witch. Originally expected to be a simple class project,...
View ArticleShine Your Light: Reflections on ‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’
Renaissance—Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s fifth self-directed film—is about how to shine your light, how to give others shine, and how to sit in darkness until the light comes again. In this season of...
View Article2023’s Top Feminist Moments in Pop Culture
In a year when women seemed to dominate both culturally and economically, it was not hard to find many feminist moments in pop culture that defined 2023. Here are our top 10 favorites—including...
View ArticleDocumentary ‘Yours in Freedom, Bill Baird’ Explores the Fight for Birth...
Bill Baird, the man who successfully challenged the U.S. law banning the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, is the subject of Rebecca Cammisa’s powerful documentary, Yours in Freedom,...
View ArticleBarbie’s Existential Crisis and the Fight for Reproductive Justice
Some will call it sacrilege for us to compare Barbie, a film that appears to celebrate artificiality and superficiality, with the deeply noir multiple award-winning film many say is the greatest of all...
View Article‘Astonishing Little Feet’: Maegan Houang Reimagines the Story of the First...
Nearly two centuries ago, Afong Moy became the first documented Chinese woman to arrive in the U.S. Brought by American merchants for the purposes of advertising their Chinese import business, she was...
View Article‘Riding Barbie’s Coattails’: Race, Gender and Inclusivity at the 2024 Oscars
It’s time to place more women of color at the center of our film narratives—and, as Cord Jefferson implored in his acceptance speech, it’s time for the cultural gatekeepers to fund and support more...
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