MILD SPOILERS AHEAD A slasher film about a pregnant woman committing murder with a kitchen knife sounds like some weird version of Mad Libs, and not necessarily a watchable movie. Nevertheless, writer, director and star, Alice Lowe has made a movie like Prevenge a tense, yet funny, gory, yet artistic, horror film. Filmed during Lowe’s actual pregnancy, the movie’s…
A new app called Equipay that was recently presented at a Comedy Hack Day in San Francisco promises to help you fairly split the bill when you’re out with friends— using gender and racial income inequality. How exactly? Using “affirmative fractions” (and real Bureau of Labor Statistics data). Even though the app is meant as a joke,…
xoJane recently published an article titled Hey Broad City, A Woman Doesn’t Have To Be A Hot Mess To Be Funny. It was labeled as an “unpopular opinion,” and rightfully so. In the article, Emily Gaudette complains about the way that Abbi and Ilana’s characters present themselves in Broad City as not having their love lives…
From the ‘Lean In’ comments forcing comedian Jessica Williams to replace Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, to Patricia Arquette’s tone-deaf comments on how everyone (men, gays, people of color) needs to support women, White feminism is “winning.” These are two examples of how women of color have always felt unwelcome in the feminist movement.…
I peek out from the side stage door and watch people filter in. There’s nothing like the energy emanating from an audience, especially on the last night of a performance. I am particularly nervous about tonight’s performance because my family, my best friend from home, and my boyfriend will in that very audience. I’ve been…
During freshman year, I became very good friends with my roommates. We were such good friends, in fact, that we remained roommates throughout our undergraduate years. Our friendship blossomed because we were open to learning about one another, shared a similar sense of humor, a love of food and Law and Order: SVU, and many other…
When I was about eight, one of my neighborhood friends typed “sex.com” into Internet Explorer. We were at my house, and true to my nature, I knew it was the wrong thing and therefore wasn’t even remotely interested. That was my first exposure to pornography. All three seconds of it, before I got mad and…
Fans attending Saturday’s Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival in Hartford most likely had similar sets of expectations for the evening, looking forward to the seasoned consistency of headliners Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari, Amy Schumer, and Sarah Silverman. As two of the best-known female voices in comedy and the only two women gracing the main stage…
Sometimes, being a woman in the Service industry is hard. Sometimes, being an opinionated feminist in the Service industry is even harder. Here are some suggestions when you have a sneaking suspicion your server is the latter: Thou shall remember my name. I am going to provide you with a service, and it is important…
