At The Establishment, Katherine Cross writes about robots, gender and Tay the chatbot. “We are being primed by many tech giants to see AI not as a future lifeform, but as an endlessly compliant and pliable, often female, form of free labor, available for sex and for guilt-free […]
The Gutter’s own Carol joins Mike White and Kevin Heffernan to discuss the 1975 satire Smile on The Projection Booth. “We talked to a few of the stars of the film: Bruce Dern, Nicholas Pryor, Barbara Feldon, Denise Nickerson, and Annette O’Toole.”
Karina Longworth looks at the history of the Hollywood Blacklist in a new, multipart series of podcasts at You Must Remember This.
At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about his current run on Black Panther, the prominence of female characters, feminism and the role of criticism. “The feminist critique is in the air now. If my rendition of Black Panther wasn’t created by that critique, it breathed the same air. […]
Buzzfeed has an interview with director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight; Jennifer’s Body; Aeon Flux; The Invitation) about filmmaking and her experience getting her films made. “But ultimately, my instinct is being an antisocial woman who maybe seems like she had a chip on her shoulder, or seems like she’d […]
The writers of Women Write About Comics share their problematic favorite characters from comics, manga, anime and tv.
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