We are oh so far from the purring Catwoman character played by Julie Newmar in the 1960s “Batman” tv series.
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It matters who reports the stories. It matters who edits the stories and it matters who is quoted in the stories. It also matters who is leading the journalism organization and making key decisions. Why? Because invisibility in the media is erasure in society.
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The drive to change who is seen, heard and represented in television, movies, print, broadcast and digital media was the goal of the recent See Jane Salon in Chicago.
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It doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you are on. It does matter that you are a woman who wants to run for U.S. Congress. Project 100 can help you get there.
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It all started with lunch and the question, “What do you need?”
Lauren Wesley Wilson was 25 and working at the junior level in a communications firm in Washington, D.C. in 2011 when she decided to launch a luncheon series. The goal was a grassroots effort to gather “open and honest” women of color in marketing and communications to help each other with whatever they needed.
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Humans are meaning-making creatures. We love to tell stories, and these shape how we see ourselves and our world. That’s what makes our ever-present media so powerful.
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Her biggest hint may have arrived in film school.
As a graduate student at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, writer, director and producer Julie Kalceff says, “I found the process to have predominantly male students. Film and TV traditionally are not terribly inclusive. I was frustrated by the industry.”
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Natalie Portman has no pants, the all-female leads in the remake of “Ghostbusters” were trashed before the movie came out and the TV women on all levels were snubbed for Emmy nominations.
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How Hoffsome. David Hasselhoff, also known as “The Hoff,” the 63-year-old former “Baywatch” star and more recently the star of the “Sharknado” movies, has become the face of the official “Hoffsome” stamp given to all-male conference panels, thanks to a Tumblr dedicated to the narrow practice.
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In case you missed it, a Barbie doll in the likeness of director Ava DuVernay (of Selma fame) has been flying across the web. Earlier this year Mattel created and launched a line of six new Barbie dolls (honoring real women leaders for their contributions to society) in partnership with Variety’s Power of Women Luncheon. The dolls were to be produced in limited amounts for charity. On Monday, December 7th, the Ava doll was released and quickly sold out, within just its first hour. Proceeds from the doll went to The Color of Change and WITNESS.
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