For Maev Beaty and Irene Poole, Stratford’s Ransacking Troy offers a chance ‘to smash the Bechdel test all to pieces’

Intermission Magazine: Erin Shields’ new play Ransacking Troy refuses to travel the path of least resistance. Now playing at the Stratford Festival, this feminist reimagining of Homer’s epics, directed by Jackie Maxwell, casts a searing look at sacrifices made in the name of male glory. More daring still is the play’s confrontation with the question of how to create systemic change.

To See or Not to See Feminism in the Works of Shakespeare

The Mary Sue: When we look at works from a different era, it’s often hard to judge them by our modern standards of feminism and progressiveness. There are a lot of great works of art that are terrible when it comes to their gender politics or their subtext (or main text) about race. That’s just something we have to deal with when it comes to art in a world that is constantly evolving and changing.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Aline Brosh McKenna on creating a better Hollywood.

slate.com: What’s it like to be the woman at the helm of one of the most beloved contemporary TV comedies? Aline Brosh McKenna, the co-creator, showrunner, and head writer of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, talked with me about day-to-day life making a hit TV show for my new podcast, Women in Charge. McKenna told me about how she was able to build a team she could rely on, and an environment in which everyone can succeed.

Your Nonprofit is “Committed to Diversity”? How Diverse Is Your Board?

Bitter Gertrude: “People ask me sometimes, when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when there are nine.” — Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Few consider it odd that almost all Supreme Court justices in the court’s 229 year history have been white men, but many considered Justice Ginsberg’s statement to be highly controversial. The idea of an all-female court seemed upsetting and threatening to many people, but an all-male court has always seemed unremarkable.