News

Girls Are More Than Just Princesses

nullAs we’ve reported about before, images aimed at young girls in the media don’t have much variety. As The Geena Davis Institute in Media has researched only 28.3% of speaking roles in family films are female and rarely are they in positions of power. Disney continues to reinforce a white princess ideal and even when that is somewhat subverted with Merida from Bravethey decided she needed a makeover.

These same types of rigid gender stereotypes have more than filtered into the types of toys marketed to girls.

GoldieBlox, an engineering toy for girls, has been told that they can’t have shelf space next to the Barbies and Disney Princessses because that’s not what little girls want. They’ve created a great campaign using social media to help girls locate GoldieBlox at their local toy stores to show that girls do want these kinds of toys. 

The campaign video below is one of the cutest and most empowering things you’ll see all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyTQDX-ItiM

h/t Kitty Kolbert


Women and Hollywood Transition

Dear friends- A little over 15 years ago I had a crazy idea: to try and start a conversation asking where the women were in front of the camera and behind the scenes in Hollywood. I called my blog...

Gina Rodriguez Developing Series Adaptation of “Princess of South Beach” Podcast for Netflix

Gina Rodriguez is celebrating the success of her new ABC comedy “Not Dead Yet” by developing a series adaptation of a popular podcast for Netflix. Deadline reports that the streamer has...

Sophie Lane Curtis Feature Debut “On Our Way” Acquired by Gravitas Ventures

Sophie Lane Curtis’ feature debut has secured distribution. Deadline reports that Gravitas Ventures landed worldwide rights to “On Our Way” with plans to release the award-winning...

Posts Search

Publishing Dates
Start date
- select start date -
End date
- select end date -
Category
News
Films
Interviews
Features
Trailers
Festivals
Television
RESET