The Female Gaze

We're back!!! with a fiery discussion featuring Ladies Get Paid's Claire Wasserman and Ashley Louise who explain why "anger is fuel" in the battle for gender pay equity and how that anger personally fueled them to create a business that is helping thousands of women around the world, well, GET PAID. Plus a friendly reminder of all the predictably overshadowed women 2020 candidates, words to live by from Georgia O'Keefe, and the latest Annenberg Foundation report findings on gender breakdown in the film industry. Take notes!

Editor-in-Chief of NYLON Gabrielle Korn joins the show this week to break down what the female gaze means when we're talking about the fashion industry, and where it's still notably missing (hint: it's not the clothes you design, it's who you're designing them for.) We ask Gabrielle about how she's changing the way women's publications talk about body, style, sex and identity - plus Elizabeth Holmes, Dating Around, Pen15, The Other Two and this week's hot take: does reverse racism/sexism exist?

How do you get more women directors' work seen on the big screens? Well one way is to hire someone like our guest this week, Director of Programming and Special Projects at Nitehawk Cinema Caryn Coleman, who lit-er-ally makes it her job to get representation into theaters. We ask her how one gets such a dreamy job, how her The Future of Film is Female project truly walks the walk - plus Aunt Becky behind bars, Alanah's gender-switching photo shoot, and Caryn's hot tip for what to do when your child is obsessed with the music of a pedophile. DAYEINU!

Erica Rose and Chelsea Moore of Sour Peach Films join TFG this week to explain why they felt compelled to start a company that authentically tells "otherized" stories like their new film "Girl Talk" - and what films like "Blue is the Warmest Color" get completely wrong. Plus we grapple with the revelations in "Leaving Neverland," debate if "Greta" is intentionally ridiculous, and tackle the toughest of questions: would any of us date a non-creative?

Playwright, performer and trans rights activist Ashley Lauren Rogers helps us break down what the trans gaze looks like and how cis folks can incorporate it into their work (and why that's important.) Plus: big take-aways from the Oscars, Michael Cohen's hearing, Cate Blanchett's argument for the matriarchy, and a major milestone for trans women in the world of professional wrestling!

Lolita Cros joins us this week to help unpack what the female gaze looks like in the fine arts, and the joys and challenges of curating work only made by female-identifying artists as the current art curator for the women-only collective The Wing. Plus, a boat for Obama, a bee for Bernie, and a healthy debate on the benefits of astrology!

Is anyone still planning to watch this train wreck of an Oscars ceremony this year?? Well we still are because we can't. help. ourselves. So we brought in a heavy-hitter - THR awards columnist and host of the Awards Chatter podcast, Scott Feinberg - to explain this no-host, fewer-category morass the Academy has waded into. Plus, predictions for major categories, a look into why no women were nominated for Best Director, and more poignantly why Jessie is going to have to swallow her "Shallow" feelings once and for all - and a hot take to help you win that Oscar ballot tie-breaker!

For the 10th episode of TFG we bring you one of our realest talks yet with sports broadcaster Julie Stewart-Binks (ESPN, Fox Sports, Barstool) about how her love of the game still overrides the insane mistreatment she experiences as a woman in sports media. Plus, how Julie's recent turn into stand-up has revealed what sports and comedy have in common (oof), and Gizmodo's Mandana Mofidi joins to chat about Russian Doll, the My Best Friend's Wedding reunion, '90s r&b, AOC and oh so much more.

Singer/songwriter/composer Sarah Aument lays bare the emotional skeletons that comprise her band TMBOY's new album and explains how being in a romantic partnership with another artist can feed one's work in unexpected ways. Plus: the challenges of gender binary bathrooms, a touching glimpse into Ireland's abortion debate, justice for Lee Krasner, and chivalry: do we still GAF?