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Bechdel Test Canon: Saving Face

Movies post by Alyx Vesey, Submitted by Alyx Vesey on January 11, 2012 - 1:42pm; tagged Alice Wu, Chinese American identity, Joan Chen, lesbianism, Lynn Chen, Michelle Krusiec, mother-daughter relationships, positive representation, Saving Face.
Michelle Krusiec and Lynn Chen Saving Face

A look at Alice Wu's Saving Face, a film about Chinese-American lesbian identity, that makes the case for why it's much more thrilling and difficult to be a person rather than an example.
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Bechdel Test Canon: D.E.B.S.

Movies post by Alyx Vesey, Submitted by Alyx Vesey on December 23, 2011 - 3:06pm; tagged Angela Robinson, Charlie's Angels, D.E.B.S., lesbianism, spies.

D.E.B.S. Sara Foster and Jordana Brewster share a moment in a car.

Angela Robinson's spy caper D.E.B.S. explores being under cover and out of the closet.

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Bechdel Test Canon: The Watermelon Woman

Movies post by Alyx Vesey, Submitted by Alyx Vesey on December 12, 2011 - 11:49am; tagged 90s, Cheryl Dunye, Fae Richards, lesbianism, Race, The Watermelon Woman.

Today we consider Cheryl Dunye's 1996 feature The Watermelon Woman and how and why certain filmmakers use fiction to write their own histories.


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Insulting the Intellect, Agnes Scott College Opens Its Doors to Road Trip II: Beer Pong

Movies post by Lisa Factora-Borchers, Submitted by Lisa Factora-Bo... on December 11, 2008 - 9:05am; tagged Big Media Rants, Everything's Wrong with this Picture, Higher Education Needs a Lesson, lesbianism, Money Wins This Round, Off Your Duff.
fem_nso.jpg In a recent post at The Bilerico Project, senior Louisa Hill, writes about the events that unfolded on her campus, Anges Scott College, when it became the background for the upcoming film Road Trip II: Beer Pong.
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