Hollywood and the film industry have long had a major problem with equality when it comes to anyone who isn’t a straight, white male. While this fact isn’t news to anyone, it has increasingly been brought to the forefront of our nation’s social consciousness in the past few years.
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Hollywood, book publishing, and other media outlets are designed to give audiences stories that they will want to take in, but, all too often, the system that is used to determine whether or not a narrative will connect with readers and watchers — and, therefore, whether or not a particular story will ever see widespread distribution — neglects to consider the audience as a diverse blend of people who enjoy good stories.
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AMONG ALL THE TALK OF Beyoncé’s Lemonade was a lot of discussion about where the music superstar and her collaborators — including music video extraordinaires…
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REMEMBER that whole #likeagirl campaign from a few years ago? Where the teenage girls and boys run like buffoons when asked to run like a…
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AMONG ALL OF THE DISCUSSION ABOUT #OSCARSSOWHITE, the fact that the Oscars are still, as they always have been, so very male was left out…
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YOU MAY HAVE HEARD of this little movie that came out earlier this year: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Ring any bells? The latest installment in…
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LAST WEEK, we heard the news that Sandra Bullock is to star in an all-female remake of Ocean’s Eleven. And we already know that Melissa…
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In a senseless act of violence on Thursday, July 23rd, a gunman opened fire in a Louisiana theater during a screening of Trainwreck. Two women…
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Screen Queens is LadyClever’s new roundup featuring feminist entertainment headlines from stage and screen each week: innovative portrayals and story arcs, sketches and comedy, appearances, awards, and more. Maggie…
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Screen Queens is LadyClever’s new roundup featuring fantastic, groundbreaking females on stage and screen making headlines each week: innovative portrayals and story arcs, sketches and comedy, appearances, awards, and…
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h/t Vanity Fair
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THE FEAR of eating in front of others is not exactly rare. Many people who are diagnosed with social anxiety disorder report having this fear. We…
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