How ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ Executive Producer Melvin Mar Helped Change Hollywood Behind the Scenes – An interesting interview that addresses many of the issues related to breaking stereotypes and diversifying television, from mentoring directors of color, to the slow pace of change in Hollywood, and the creation of a diverse ... more >
The Fascinating, Complicated Art of Designing a Book Cover – An interview with Penguin Classics’ Creative Director Paul Buckley, in which he discusses different aspects of the cover design process. I’ve always loved the Penguin Classic covers, and Buckley notes that the challenge with those books is to refigure a book ... more >
New study shows gender gap narrowing in book coverage – VIDA’s latest study demonstrates that strides are being made in the representation of both men and women, although they are not consistently large or equally distributed across publications. VIDA, otherwise known as Women in Literary Arts, told The Associated Press on ... more >
Academy Board Endorses Changes to Increase Diversity in Oscar Nominees and Itself – Hoping to double the number of women and underrepresented minorities in the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the governing board has voted unanimously to implement a number of changes, focused on both short and ... more >
2015: The Year an “Orgy of Specificity” Revitalized Romance – Judy Berman’s contemplation of her favorite romance of the year: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, becomes a launching pad from which she discusses the construct of identity, as books like Nelsons, and Ann Garétta’s Sphinx defy gender constructions and conventions to deliver what ... more >
The Creativity Bias against Women – A paper written by three researchers at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business shows that in certain work environments, men are perceived to be more creative than women, especially in fields that are more dominated by or associated with male characteristics (e.g. Architecture showed the ... more >