‘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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...