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Breaking Dawn Part 2: And They Lived Happily Twi-After
The Twilight Saga’s Breaking Dawn: Part 2 tries hard to be epic, and in ways it is. Not all of them good. On the plus side, it has a grander scope, better cinematography, action scenes my 13-year-old...
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Trains, Pullman Porters and a Woman’s Blues
What do you get when you combine passionate individuals determined to survive with multi-generational family drama and two key moments in African American history? A pretty great new play, that’s what....
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What If “The Sessions” Focused on a Disabled WOMAN?
We went to see The Sessions because we were intrigued by the notion of seeing a woman sex therapist on screen. This independent film seemed like it would be an atypical or maybe even a transgressive...
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Love in the Land of Filipino People Power
Before the Rain is a romantic memoir set against the backdrop of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. Author Luisita Lopez Torregrosa is a career-driven newspaper editor in New York who...
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We Heart the Sundance Film Festival–Where Women Hold Up Half the Screen
In what’s being called a first, one-half of the 16 dramatic films chosen for competition at the prestigious 2013 Sundance Film Festival this coming January in Park City, Utah, are directed by women. In...
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Remembering Jenni Rivera, Feminist Icon
“Look at that dress,” I exclaimed as she sashayed across the stage, feet hidden beneath its many ruffles. The floor-length purple gown was embellished with swirling golden details offset by a...
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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Five Feminist Footnotes
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, and in her 41-year life produced literary works that have enjoyed mass popularity and acclaim that only increases over time. Two hundred years ago, as she...
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A Girl’s Guide to the Chilean Revolution
What price do the families of revolutionaries pay for their loved one’s idealism, and is it worth it? In her memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary’s Daughter, Carmen Aguirre describes...
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The Hobbit: A Gender-Bending Journey
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is, in no way, shape, or form a film that passes the Bechdel test. Not only does it lack two female characters interacting with each other about something other than a...
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Some Musicals Are More Feminist Than Others
While Les Misérables is not your typical musical–or, as this Guardian review puts it, “There’s no dancing, there are no jazz hands and there is next to no speech”–it is typical of the genre in that,...
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