Organizing data into a searchable data resource about empowered female and non-binary representation in media. The goal of this project is to contribute to the ongoing efforts that define, review and drive for increased representation and imagery as well as give a space for others in the community to participate. You do not have to be technical to participate in this project. That is the beauty of media.
What stories and characters inspire you that you think should be on this list/in the dataset? What criteria should we use? How should it be measured?
Building using Google Cloud Platform since I work there and I have access to resources.
List movies and TV resources that feature strong female characters outside the media norms. Viewable in this Google spreadsheet
Criteria - What to include:
- Protagonist
- Breaks Stereotypes
- Agency | power
- Goals (beyond finding or supporting a man)
- On a journey
- Independent ideas
- More than one woman
- Assertive, intelligent, self-reliant characterists
- Survivor
- Positive impact
- Helping herself or others that is not a man
- Robust character
Found this Guante poet paraphrase during the search.
- I want her to be free to express herself
- I want her to have meaningful, emotional relationships with other women
- I want her to be weak sometimes
- I want her to be strong in a way that isn’t about physical dominance or power
- I want her to cry if she feels like crying
- I want her to ask for help
- I want her to be who she is
Criteria - What NOT to include:
- Saved by a man
- Man makes most decisions for the character
- Only goal/value is to help a man achieve his goal
- Exists only to be objectified
- Gratuitous nudity
- Standard love story | only has value or is complete when finds a man
- Steretypical archtype (manic pixy dreamgirl)
- Pits women against women and feeds the women don't get along narrative
- Treats a strong women as crazy or a psychopath and reafirms that image
- Serial killers
Additions welcome. Reveiew the contributing page.
- IMDB
- Wiki
- YouTube
- Rotten Tomatoes
- MsMojo
- Bitch Media
- Bechdel Test
- Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
- Bechdel charts
This is not a Google product.