On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

on our radar

Here’s what we’re reading today: 

• The Oscar nominations are out. Looks like it’s a good year to be a quirky man. [NPR] 

• The nominations are also the whitest they’ve been in years. [Forbes] 

• The number of women making Hollywood movies hasn’t improved over the past 17 years. Ugh. [Women and Hollywood] 

• At least we’ll always have Broad City. [The Atlantic] 

• Chef and author Eddie Huang sounds off about how his memoir Fresh Off the Boat has been adapted into an ABC sitcom. [Vulture] 

• Do prisons and mass incarceration keep us safer? Journalist Maya Schenwar breaks down the issue. [Truthout] 

• The podcast The Abortion Diary collects personal stories of getting an abortion. [Nursing Clio] 

What did I miss? Add what you’re reading to the comments. 



by Sarah Mirk
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Sarah Mirk is the former host of Bitch Media’s podcast Popaganda. She’s interested in gender, history, comics, and talking to strangers. You can follow her on Twitter

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1 Comment Has Been Posted

I get that everyone is upset

I get that everyone is upset about the Selma Oscar snub, but this is no excuse for ableist language. From the protagonists that you label as "quirky male" one is gay, one has a physical disability, and one suffers from a mental illness. Disablity and homosexuality are not quirks!

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