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Canada’s Bloody Mary Film Festival 2017’s spotlight on Female-Identifying Canadian Filmmakers

The Bloody Mary Film Festival is a screening series that was first held in Toronto, Ontario on November 3-4, 2016. Named after the legendary mirror ghost from slumber parti...

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Hollywood

Geena Davis on Empowering Women in the Entertainment Industry

There has been a significant increase in people, especially celebrities opening up to sexual harassment, all thanks to Harvey Weinstein. Then we have the allegations agains...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Love-Hate relationship between AC/DC and the Women who listen to Them

On hearing their songs, a conscientious feminist would surely stop listening to AC/DC and build a bonfire out of the band’s back catalogue. But, much as one feels bad...

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Human Rights

Hatred and harassment online is harder to supress than sex

Ever since a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the 12th August 2017, news developments have continued at a torrid pace. The Daily Stor...

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Gender

Meet the ultimate Afro-Puerto-Rican Superwoman - La Borinquena!

Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez is a writer at Marvel Entertainment. His character La Borinqueña, named after the island nation’s anthem has grown into a cultural ph...

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Sustainable Development

A Pill a Day keeps your Periods Away…

“Why the hell am I bleeding every three weeks if I don't have to be?” is the question most women on hormonal birth control pills ask. ‘Withdrawal bleeding...

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Trending

Jagran Cinema Summit - a step towards the future of cinema

Mumbai, September 15, 2017: Renowned filmmakers, marketers and distributors all gathered today sharing their insights on the future of cinema at the first ...

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Gender

Writers of Colour

Women, as a collective, have always faced discrimination through the ages, and women of colour even more so as their stories get subsumed within the larger narratives of wh...

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Gender

Laughter in Lahore

Despite its image as a repressed nation torn by turmoil, Pakistan's alternative art movement is slowly making heads turn. Auratnaak, an all-women group of comedy a...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Stage and the Stree

Theatre has been one of the longest-practiced forms of art in India- from age-old bards, to soliloquizing protagonists, to dance-dramas, it has always been a crucial part o...

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