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How can we change this harmful mindset? The answer goes back to childhood. The expectation for girls in early youth is to behave in a way that minimizes risk; girls are not often praised for successfully navigating a bike down a mountain or jumping off a swing and landing on...
Filmmaking can be one of the more precarious fields for undergraduates to enter immediately after graduating. Would-be documentarians face difficulty getting funding outside Harvard, and those looking for work on fiction films encounter their own set of obstacles. “You can’t get a job...
In 2007, I spent about five days with the medevacs operating out of Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan. There I met Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jessie Russell, a female pilot flying Black Hawks to pick up the injured. I love meeting strong, smart women doing unconventional jobs. Last April, when...
In addition to its speed, the formulaic nature of this particular greeting is so widely acknowledged that people quickly grow accustomed to it. This makes meeting new people not only easier and faster, but also less intimidating for those who are shyer. For those who find socializing fairly difficult, the...
If an auteur is a director with an obsessive personal vision - or, in simple terms, a man who keeps remaking his own movies - then Polanski is the very auteuriest. Even if he weren't drawn to pictures about hunted, holed-up men, he could hardly avoid the connection between iconography...