Tag: women
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Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda Talk about Female Friendship
“Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin: A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship” is a TED Talk with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin discussing friendship with Pat Mitchell. Since so many of my top 10 picks for the year 2015 explore the power of female friendship, this conversation between them is especially relevant.
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Feminist Frequency: The Straw Feminist
This is an old video from Feminist Frequency, but I just discovered it. It talks about ‘the straw feminist,’ a character in media that is actually meant to demonize and confuse real feminism. It’s about 10 minutes long and worth the time. Here’s the description of the video: The Straw Feminist trope is a deliberately…
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Lifetime’s Broad Focus is Great News
Lifetime TV is behind an initiative called Broad Focus (what a pun!) that aims to put more women in creative positions behind the camera as directors, producers, writers, and content developers. Here’s the announcement video. Lifetime couldn’t be a more logical network to lead the way on this. It has an audience of women who…
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What a Year for Woman over 40 and the Golden Globes
The Golden Globe nominees for 2014 were announced last week. It’s worth mentioning the number of names in the female categories that are women over 40. There were at least 2 of the 5 nominees in each category who are over 40. I have to confess that one of my favorites, Tatiana Maslany, is in…