On Franchise and Feminism: The Hunger Games

By SOPHIA NGUYEN

April 1, 2012

Sure, go see The Hunger Games. There’s a singular, thrilling pleasure to a solidly executed blockbuster, and this one’s pretty …

Poem: At a Symposium on Fashion in Film, 11/12/11

By SAMUEL HUBER

MARCH 29, 2012

Samuel Huber is a junior in Yale College. He is the Executive Editor of Broad Recognition.

Miss(ed) Opportunity: Miss Representation

By ISABEL ORTIZ

March 11, 2012

The timing of the Women’s Center’s screening of Miss Representation couldn’t have been more appropriate given its proximity to the Academy Awards, our annual reminder of Hollywood’s male hegemony. A recent LA Times article …

A Woman’s Guide to “Girl Land”

By SOPHIA NGUYEN

March 9, 2012

According to Caitlin Flanagan, I too lived in Girl Land, once upon a time—and if I hadn’t, it was because my citizenship had been wrested away by the liberal, permissive parents who’d handed me a …

Cultural Synthesis: Today’s Women in Electronica

By ISABEL ORTIZ March 4, 2012

There’s something inherently problematic about writing an article about “female synth musicians” despite the fact that most of these women would probably deny having much in common with each other beyond the fact that they …

Pop, Plastic, and The Lana del Rey Effect

By ISABEL ORTIZ

February 29, 2012

By now, the Internet has become well acquainted with the Lana Del Rey universe. Wafting through a world of interminable highways, faded tinsel and pleasingly dilapidated motel signs, her self proclaimed image as a “gangsta …

M.I.A.’s Bad Girls in the Middle East

By ANDREW WAGNER

February 23, 2012

Since her earliest records, M.I.A. has maintained a Third World, slightly anarchist political aesthetic that dabbles in postcolonial perspectives. Her latest music video, “Bad Girls,” sticks to that style, imagining a desolate Middle Eastern …

A Look Back: Last Week in the “War on Women”

By JULIA CALAGIOVANNI

February 22, 2012

Real talk: last week was a frustrating week to be a feminist. We saw abusers glorified, women silenced, and reproductive rights denied. A look back:

Chris Brown’s “comeback:” The week got off to a bad …

Trying Out Smash

By SOPHIA NGUYEN

February 17, 2012

Even for those who haven’t watched a backstage-anything since Black Swan, a lot of what appears in Smash is predictable: ingénue, rival, predatory director (who speaks with an accent). Even the less obvious characters—the queenly producer, the …