| Big on the Internet, Aly Raisman, Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics By Chelsea Steiner on Thu,11:49 Last night at the ESPY Awards, 141 survivors of USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar's sexual assault took the stage to receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. The audience gave the women a standing ovation, as they filled the stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Jennifer Garner presented the women with the award, as Sarah Klein, Aly Raisman, and Tiffany Thomas Lopez accepted the award on behalf of the survivors. Read More > Big on the Internet, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, women in television By Jessica Mason on Thu,10:28 Amazing things happen when women support each other and tell their stories. Read More > Big on the Internet, bess kalb, matt walsh, things we saw today By Kaila Hale-Stern on Wed,6:47 Matt Walsh, in his own words, is "a writer, speaker, author, and one of the religious Right's most influential young voices," as well as a self-described "extremist." You can imagine the charming opinions that Matt Walsh has. Read More > Big on the Internet, Feminist Film Forum, The Mary Sue, The Mary Sue Event, Tor Books By Kaila Hale-Stern on Wed,5:48 If you snagged a ticket, we're a lot of fun to hang out with, we promise. Read More > TV, Ahsoka Tano, George Lucas, Star Wars: The Clone Wars By Kate Gardner on Wed,5:41 The show, which began with a somewhat ill received movie and earned six seasons in a reverse Community move, has a cult following in the Star Wars fandom, and for good reason. It's a spectacular series that tackles deeper themes than we get to truly explore in the prequels, or in many parts of the franchise at all. Read More > TV, Amber Tamblyn, Y: The Last Man By Vivian Kane on Wed,5:38 Following last week's announcement of the incredible cast lined up for the adaptation of Vertigo's Y: The Last Man, FX continues to add new names and they continue to be super exciting. Read More > Books, Star Wars (franchise), star wars books, tie-in novels By Kate Gardner on Wed,3:38 With only one novel currently announced—Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn, which drops next Tuesday—the panel is already promising surprise panelists and announcements that will reveal what the upcoming titles will be. Fans of Star Wars's new canon novels are eagerly awaiting the reveals, since there's plenty of material that needs filling in via some seriously cool books. Read More > Comics, Eisner Hall of Fame, Rumiko Takahashi By Princess Weekes on Wed,3:26 Prolific mangaka Rumiko Takahashi is nominated for the Eisner Hall of Fame and we hope she makes it. In honor of her nomination, here are some other female mangaka who deserve some recognition. Read More > AMP Featured, Big on the Internet, millennials, money, privilege By Vivian Kane on Wed,2:49 Money Diaries has always been a fiery hate-read. But a new entry has gone beyond regular hate-read and into pure burn-it-down territory. Read More > TV, Chyna, hulk hogan, WWE By Princess Weekes on Wed,2:03 The thing that upsets me the most about Hogan being reinstated into the WWE HoF is that Chyna is still not inducted at all. Read More > Movies, Bad Robot, jj abrams, Overlord By Kate Gardner on Wed,1:25 Will Jovan Adepo's Boyce be a Final Guy figure and escape from these experiments safe and sound? Will the flamethrower-wielding female soldier make it out okay? And what is behind that wall? Read More > TV, HBO, women in film By Jyotsna Hariharan on Wed,12:50 In any other show, Sally could have easily been the character whose only function was to be the promise of a better life for the damaged male anti-hero—an unchanging oasis of normalcy and calm in which he could find refuge, when his life of violence overwhelmed him—but with the combined expertise of Barry's creative team and Sarah Goldberg’s nuanced, empathetic performance, Sally is quickly revealed to be just as flawed and troubled as every other person on the show Read More > Movies, Batman (character), Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight By Princess Weekes on Wed,12:32 As we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of The Dark Knight, the second film in Christopher Nolan's Batman movie trilogy, this is as good a time as any to talk about how, despite its cinematic brilliance, this was a movie that really turned the film image of the Batman into an unfunny, stuffy mess. Read More > Movies, Mamma Mia, mamma mia universe, mamma mia! here we go again By Rachel Leishman on Wed,11:49 When Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy! championship fame) took to Twitter to pose the question of ABBA existing in the Mamma Mia! world, fans began to question everything they knew about the movie. With the release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again quickly approaching, everyone is turning back to the original movie to prepare. Read More > Big on the Internet, female characters, gender representation, monsters By Kate Gardner on Wed,11:45 We need female monsters for simple diversity of characters. We need to explore women undefined by physical appearance and see them as complex creatures. Read More > Science & Tech, Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City, women in politics By Vivian Kane on Wed,8:25 As we all learned from everything that was 2016, it can be super dangerous to treat politics like it's reality TV or general entertainment. On the other hand, the world is a garbage fire and it can be really nice to impose some frivolous distractions into our political landscape. Read More > Big on the Internet, Disney princesses, Her Universe, things we saw today By Kaila Hale-Stern on Tue,6:27 Ariel-inspired jeans? A Tiana romper? A magic carpet bag? Dinglehopper makeup brushes?! Read More > Big on the Internet, donald trump, Queen Elizabeth II, Trolling Guides By Vivian Kane on Tue,5:51 Queen Elizabeth may have been trolling through fashion, something Melania Trump wishes she were this good at. Read More > Comics, marvel, Marvel Comics, What If By Kaila Hale-Stern on Tue,5:00 "What If the Marvel Universe was … different?" Read More > Movies, Fantastic Beasts (franchise), fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald, LGBTQ Representation By Kate Gardner on Tue,3:22 The problem is is that sexuality might not define Dumbledore, but it plays a big role in the lives of those who do identify as members of the LGBT+ community. And by not defining him—which most likely means "is never mentioned in the film"—they're actually taking away an important moment of representation in a major franchise film, which is rare. Read More > |
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