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Dammit Tommy: How The BBC Messed Up The New Agatha Christie Adaptation

Partners in Crime, the new BBC Agatha Christie adaption is here. And it's awful. How did the Beep get it so, so wrong?

Fandom 101: Interacting with Female Authors

Female authors with large fandoms get treated differently than their male counterparts. Here's how to decrease the suck.

Discourse, Disappointment, and the Death By a Thousand Cuts

Rioter Kate on the disappointment of subtle and repeated sexism in books.

Women Aren’t Aliens (and Other Thoughts on the Andrew Smith Controversy)

This post examines a controversy about how YA author Andrew Smith depicts women in his books.

Women in Fiction Need More Than The Bechdel Test

Most are familiar with the Bechdel Test, named after Alison Bechdel. A work “passes” the test if it features at ...

All the Surprises (Both Good and Bad) From This Year’s VIDA Count

I look forward to The VIDA Count every year, which basically boils down to a series of pie charts that ...

Sexism on the Shelves?

YA Author Rae Carson (whose Fire & Thorns trilogy is awesome, by the way, go read it) recently tweeted a ...