The Golden Girls

30 Years Ago, “The Golden Girls” Treated Sick Women like We Matter

four older white women standing in front a purple background on The Golden Girls
by Diane Shipley
September 23, 2019 at 10:05am
Three decades later, “Sick and Tired” remains a cultural touchstone for people with chronic illnesses.

Popaganda Episode: Nostalgia TV

by Sarah Mirk
January 15, 2016 at 11:29am
The '90s are having a moment. In this podcast episode, we talk Sailor Moon, Saved By the Bell, The X-Files, and The Golden Girls, plus muse about the meaning of “girl power” and discuss whether shows like Downton Abbey... Read more »

What "The Golden Girls" Taught Me About Bioethics

by Elizabeth Yuko
September 14, 2015 at 11:21am
From HIV stigma to a mansplaining doctor, The Golden Girls discussed it all. Read more »

How Great Would it Be to Relaunch Golden Girls?

by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
March 4, 2013 at 12:48pm
The Golden Girls' feminism is self-evident: Four outspoken, post-menopausal women live together and support each other through older age, dealing together with their grown kids, ex-husbands, and dating lives. And they are not the punchline—they make the punchlines. This show,... Read more »

Where on TV are the Women Over 40? Increasingly, in the Boonies of Cable.

by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
February 8, 2013 at 11:47am
The rather unhappily squished cast of Hot in Cleveland. In recent years, some TV industry-watchers have declared victory for older women on cable, writing that the explosion of original... Read more »

We'll miss you, Rue McClanahan.

by Kelsey Wallace
June 3, 2010 at 10:07am
Television icon (and feminist favorite) Rue McClanahan passed away this morning at the age of 76. She was best known for her role as Blanche Devereaux on the classic sitcom The Golden Girls (though I probably didn't have to... Read more »