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Six Lessons Lisa Simpson Taught Me
Written by Lady T as part of our theme week on Child and Teenage Girl Protagonists. Lisa Simpson, influential eight-year-old The Simpsons, now in its record-breaking 25th season, is one of the most...
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Defending Dawn Summers: From One Kid Sister to Another
Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers This repost by Robin Hitchcock appears as part of our theme week on Child and Teenage Girl Protagonists. In the final scene of the first episode of Buffy the...
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Older Women Week: How ‘Golden Girls’ Shaped My Feminism
Golden Girls Written by Megan Kearns | A version of this article originally appeared at The Opinioness of the World A child of the 80s, I grew up watching TV shows like Murder She Wrote and Love Boat....
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The Awesome Women of ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’
We TV lovers are in the dog days of summer. Unless you are a MasterChef superfan (Isn’t Cutter the worst!?), a premium cable subscriber (Twitter sure seems to like Masters of Sex), or the type of...
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Family, Friendship, and Getting By: The Two Mrs. Harts of ‘Reba’
Written by Jenny Lapekas. Like many of us, I’m a child of divorce, and I saw firsthand the lasting effects of infidelity and separation. For years, I’ve turned on Reba because I find it comforting;...
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Why We Love Janice and Why We Love to Hate Janice
This guest post by Artemis Linhart appears as part of our theme week on Unlikable Women. You can hear her presence from a distance. If it isn’t the laugh that tips you off, it might just be her nasal,...
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‘Fresh Off the Boat’s Jessica Huang Is Loud, Abrasive, Intense, and Exactly...
Fresh Off the Boat’s Jessica Huang, played by Constance Wu This guest post by Deborah Pless appears as part of our theme week on Asian Womanhood in Pop Culture. Guys. Guys. Guys. I don’t want to jump...
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Geraldine Granger, the Vicar at Large: Fat Positivity in ‘The Vicar of Dibley’
This guest post by Rachel Wortherley appears as part of our theme week on Fatphobia and Fat Positivity. Audiences were first introduced to English actress and comedian Dawn French in various comedy...
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Slaying Dudes and Stealing Hearts: The Tell-All Sexuality of Mindy Lahiri
This guest post by Shannon Miller appears as part of our theme week on Sex Positivity. If there was ever a word that could best encompass the essence of the central character of The Mindy Project, it...
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‘Living Single’ and ‘Girlfriends’: The Roots of Sex Positivity for Black...
Women in the African diaspora have had a hard time claiming healthy ownership of their own bodies. From slavery to the present, Black women (and Black girls) have endured the stigma of having their...
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