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In a move that should have progressive minded parents across the country and the world cheering, Disney last week said that they would no longer be producing fairy tale movies, and folks that means no more princess movies. No more big pink dresses, no ...[Read on]

Animators, It's Time for a Female Heroine--No Princesses Please!

Linda Holmes, over at NPR, writes a moving letter about her fervent hope that Pixar can take it's unparalleled talent and use it to create a true female heroine. An excerpt: Of the ten movies you've released so far, ten of them have central characters wh...[Read on]

Degenderizing Disney

I find it pretty hysterical that the folks at Disney are freaking out and changing the names of their movies so they don’t alienate boys who won’t come and see a movie with the name princess in the title. Of course they would never freak out if girl...[Read on]

Changing the Culture that Creates…. Us

(Ed. Note: Author Crystal Allene Cook is the former executive director of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.) Whispering Wall At the beginning, none of us probably really understood what was needed to do the job. Granted, I’d been invol...[Read on]

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