Dr. Brittney Cooper Rutgers University July 28, 2016

63.4 percent of those with bylines and on camera appearances were men. The Chicago Sun Times had the largest number of female bylines at 46%. The New York Times had the fewest at 31%.

Across all demographics of women of color, including, Asian, Latinx, Black/African American, and Native American, representations in newsrooms have decreased since the mid and early 2000.

In 2015, Ava DuVernay became the first Black woman director to have a film nominated for Academy Awards Best Picture. In 1991, Julie Dash became the first Black woman director to have a mainstream film release.

Only 6% of the top films cast the male and female sexes in equal numbers Women have speaking roles in films at only about a 30% rate. In 2012, 10.8% of speaking roles went to Blacks, 5% to Asians, and 4.2& to Latinos

Of women with speaking parts, 34.8 percent were Asian, 34.6 percent were black, 33.9 percent were Hispanic, 28.8 percent were white and 16.1 percent were of some other ethnicity Latina women were the most likely to be provocatively attired or partially nude in films, followed by Black women, white women and Asian women.

1. Has to have at least 2 women in it 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something other than a man. In 2015, 45% of the years top 100 movies failed the Bechdel test. Ava DuVernay explicitly included a scene in Selma that would pass the Bechdel Test.

First, we should look beyond traditional media formats. Second, there have been an explosion of representations of women in non-traditional forms of media like blogs, vlogs, podcasts, and webshows.

Generationally-specific articulation of feminist consciousness, epistemology and politics rooted in multiple generations of Black feminist work “Fucks with the grays.” Percussive – the productive tension generated by placing competing concerns in conversation

We should understand Beyonce’s political engagement to be a direct result of digital feminist media-making. She learned more about feminism on YouTube.

Issa Rae Productions For Harriet Blavity Unscrewed Feministing Another Round

The Read So Popular (MSNBC) Call Your Girlfriend Politically Re-Active VerySmartBrothas Awesomely Luvvie

Black Twitter as a social phenomenon has also greatly shifted narratives of connectivity and galvanized a social movement. Black Twitter has become a significant organizing and mobilizing tool in the Movement for Black Lives It has also become a primary place for public accountability in the face of racial faux pas among white people.

www.mcsilver.nyu.edu/gender

Understanding HERstory: An Anti-Oppressive Framework for Helping Professionals Working with Women

Podcast August 2016

Presenters: Zoila Del-Villar, CASAC, MHC-Limited Permit, Research Scientist and James Rodriguez, PhD,

LCSW, Senior Research Scientist