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Wrestling with Women's Relationships in GLOW
Series photo for GLOW, a Netflix Original Series.The dramedy GLOW opens on an audition room in 1985. Alison Brie’s character, Ruth, reads an intense, confrontational monologue and then thanks the...
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A Female Doctor: It's About Time
Courtesy of @BBCAmerica (via Twitter)In the days leading up to the announcement of the new lead for Doctor Who, I had a heated debate with a male friend about who might be cast for the role. “I just...
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Feminists For Halloween
Rokhl Holzer in costume. Photograph by Nick Fletcher, courtesy of Paula Boltman. (cropped)I think we can all agree that 2017 has been a veritable garbage fire thus far. I don’t need to tell you that...
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Broad City Helps Us Come Back
Ilana GlazerBroad City’s “Witches” is everything I need right now, and I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s what a lot of us need right now. In this Season 4 episode of Broad City, Ilana visits a...
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Thankful for Crazy
Promotional image from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 3. “Did you watch it? Are you caught up?” These are very common questions to hear in the JWA office on Monday mornings, when we can all debrief the...
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A Tale of Two Maisels
Publicity photo for Amazon original series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017). Spoilers ahead!When it comes to the new Amazon original series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, we are an office divided. The...
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Nice Ladies
Image of comedian Michelle Wolf doing standup in 2016. I’m not a nice lady. I express my (many) opinions loudly, I’ve perfected the sarcastic comment as an art form, and I’m the proud owner of both a...
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Sorkin’s Game
Aaron Sorkin at the PaleyFest 2013 panel on the TV show "The Newsroom"Dear Aaron,It feels like just yesterday I was an innocent fifth grader sitting around your kitchen table, discussing trivial fifth...
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Grace and Frankie: Bashert
Image from Netflix's Grace and Frankie, season three finale. Image originally appeared on mediageek.com. When you hear the word bashert, or soulmate, what do you think of? Does the term conjure mental...
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Feminism in Sex and the City: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Poster for the tv show, Sex and the City.New York City. Quippy dialogue. Journalism. Fashion and shoes galore.What’s not to love about Sex and the City?From the first episode, I was hooked. My friends...
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You Go, Gert Yorkes
Cast of Runaways at the 2017 New York Comic Con I’m a simple woman. I don’t need too much encouragement to start a new TV show. So when I heard there was a Hulu original series coming out that features...
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The Marvelous Concept of Imperfection
Actress Rachel BrosnahanMy mother is an avid recommender. She sends me articles and book titles, offers topics to blog about—she even suggested I see Hamilton with my grandma when it first opened on...
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Does Fixer Upper Need Fixing Up?
Logo for the tv show, Fixer Upper.HGTV’s Fixer Upper is my guilty pleasure. I could watch the iconic married duo Chip and Joanna “Jo” Gaines renovate houses for hours. They take run-down homes in Waco,...
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Taking an L? Maybe, maybe not.
Promotional poster for the tv show, The L Word.First aired on Showtime in 2004, The L Word became the first ever TV series that documented the lives of an ensemble of queer women. Modeled after the...
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Michelle Wolf is (Still) not a Nice Lady
Image of Michelle Wolf shared via her instagram. Her caption read "Not in the spirit of the mission."I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Michelle Wolf is not a nice lady. She’s a nasty woman who...
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In Willow's Defense
An edited image of Willow from the promotional image during Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6.From my initial pre-teen viewing of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with my mom, to the countless times I have...
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The Scarlet Letter Reports
Composite Image of Amanda Knox, host of the Broadly-produced Facebook series and The Scarlet Letter film poster from 1934."The rest of the world is not kind when it comes to women's sexuality.” No, it...
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How Paris Geller’s Jewishness Helped Me Understand Mine
Paris Geller on Gilmore Girls,contemplating her post-graduation prospects with “Operation Finish Line.”So, how Jewish is Gilmore Girls’ Paris Geller? I’d say, very.While Gilmore Girls has a permanent...
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Give Me The Break
Cover image for Michelle Wolf's late-night style talk show, The Break (Netflix, 2018).Michelle Wolf isn’t a “nice lady,” and neither am I. Screw being nice. Netflix just cancelled The Break with...
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Respect Your Elder (Millennial)
Cover image of Iliza Schlesinger's Elder Millennial. (Netflix, 2018).I love writing about female comedians. I’ve written about Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf (twice), Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of...
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