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Image: Podcast logoThe Bechdel Test is a criteria first developed by cartoonist Alison Bechdel in the ‘80s to assess gender bias in fiction. To pass the test, a work must include a) at least two women who,  b) talk to each other, and c) discuss something other than a man. Each week on The Bechdel…

Screenshot: Farscape/The Jim Henson CompanyFilmmakers understood the power of sex long before TV did—or at least, they actually made effective use of it much more quickly. The early days of the television medium were largely about all-ages programming. Families might have any number of children, but no obvious way in which they had come into…

I woke up this morning chanting a mantra to myself: It’s just a regular Tuesday, it’s just a regular Tuesday, it’s just a regular Tuesday. Apparently my body couldn’t be tricked, because it remained in a heightened state of anxiety—even beyond what it’s normally capable of, which is saying something. So I went on a…

I woke up this morning chanting a mantra to myself: It’s just a regular Tuesday, it’s just a regular Tuesday, it’s just a regular Tuesday. Apparently my body couldn’t be tricked, because it remained in a heightened state of anxiety—even beyond what it’s normally capable of, which is saying something. So I went on a…