Tag Archives: Films

Is TOOTSIE a Feminist Film? Should We Even Care?
To describe these last several months as challenging is a huge understatement. A more apt description would be tragic and frightening. In this difficult time, filled with a seemingly endless barrage of bad news, it struck me that it may be frivolous to write articles dedicated to the discussion and examination of culturally relevant feminist […]

Back to Beyond the Bechdel!
As you may have noticed, we’ve been on hiatus considerably longer than expected. Then again, very little in 2020 has transpired as any of us has expected, which is why we here at BTB have decided it’s time to rejoin the public discourse and examine how we can all contribute to the enduring fight for […]

How We Move Beyond the Bechdel Test
Over the past 12 months, I’ve offered several modest calls to action we can each undertake in our daily lives to pave the path for a more gender-friendly future. However, these are but mere baby steps and by no means sufficient to overcome the broad scale social injustice that poisons not only our film culture […]
