The Climate Reality Check once again looked for climate change visibility in this year's awards season films, with 'Arco,' ...

Oppenheimer is once again trending on social media, but this time it’s because it fails the Bechdel Test. Here’s how the record-breaking movie fails the Bechdel Test. Also known as the ...

On Monday, in a now-deleted Tweet, writer Hanna Rosin criticized Hulu’s popular new film “Fire Island” for its so-called failure of the Bechdel test. Rosin wrote that the movie “gets an F- on the ...

“The Bechdel Test” started as a joke in one of her comic strips before becoming one of the most famous measures of gender representation in film. Now, acclaimed American cartoonist Alison Bechdel has ...

In 1985, cartoonist Alison Bechdel drew a sequence in her strip Dykes to Watch Out For that depicted a pair of women walking by a movie theater. “I have this rule,” one says. “I only go to a movie if ...

The Bechdel Test, the brainchild of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, bubbled out of a 1985 comic strip called “Dykes to Watch Out For.” It was Bechdel’s modest proposal for assessing how well a given film ...

Twitter erupted after a NYMag podcaster condemned the queer summer hit for lacking female representation. Now, the cartoonist behind the Bechdel Test has given the last word. “Fire Island” ignited a ...

After this year's Oscars, some are still celebrating historic victories for inclusion, as well as critiquing what and who are still missing from the silver screen. One test has become a convenient ...

For years the Bechdel Test has been the standard for pop culture fans looking for a simple way to gauge a movie's gender diversity. But pop culture fans and critics are creating new ways to expand on ...

With 2015 behind us, there’s no better time to give the movie business a little check-up and see how things are going. One of the simplest measures of sexism is called the Bechdel Test. Created by ...

A tweet criticized the gay Asian rom-com for failing to adequately represent women. Now what? By Rebecca Sun Senior Editor, Diversity & Inclusion In 1985, cartoonist Alison Bechdel drew a sequence in ...