A climate script consultancy has introduced a variation on the “Bechdel test,” a measure of women’s interactions in film, for climate change. The two-part test, created by the group Good Energy in ...

A few months back, Alison Bechdel spent an evening at ASU’s West Campus. Before her visit to the Valley, the New York Times bestselling author and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient spoke with Jackalope ...

The Bechdel test is one of the easiest ways to figure out if a movie actually gives two shits about women (though it's not the only test of representation in films), and uses a simple measure to test ...

‘I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements,’ one woman tells another in Alison Bechdel’s 1985 comic strip. In the wake of ‘Barbie,’ the Bechdel Test has hit the mainstream. WATCH: ...

Only 49 percent of Oscar best-picture winners from 1929 to 2017 passed the test that many have embraced as one indicator of sexism in film. “I’m not really a movie person,” says Alison Bechdel, but ...

Captain America: Civil War may be the biggest movie of the year so far, but it doesn’t do much for its female characters. The women in the film barely communicate with each other. During one of the ...

In 1985, Alison Bechdel introduced the world to a simple test used to measure the representation of women in fiction, now commonly known as the Bechdel Test. In order to pass the Bechdel Test, a piece ...