Mme Geneviève

In 2004, Geena Davis was watching a children's show with her two-year-old daughter when something stopped her cold.
Where were the girls?
The show was made for the youngest viewers. Yet male characters dominated nearly every scene. She started paying attention. Movies. Cartoons. Animated films. The pattern was everywhere.
Davis had won an Oscar. She'd starred in films like Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own. She'd spent years in an industry that celebrated her on screen—while quietly erasing women in the background.
But she didn't write an op-ed. She didn't give angry interviews.
She built a research institute.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media became the first organization to systematically study how women and girls appear in children's entertainment. Her team partnered with USC researchers and analyzed thousands of films and shows.
The findings were staggering.
For every one female speaking character in family films, there were three male characters. Crowd scenes averaged only 17 percent female. And the ratio hadn't changed since 1946.
But Davis didn't show up to studio meetings with complaints. She showed up with data.
She walked into rooms full of executives and presented numbers they couldn't argue with. Her approach wasn't accusation—it was invitation. Here's what we found. Here's what we can fix. Here's how easy it could be.
Her motto became a movement: "If she can see it, she can be it."
Studios listened. Disney began using the Institute's software to analyze their scripts. Producers started adding female characters to crowd scenes. Writers began switching character names from male to female—and discovered the stories got more interesting.
By 2019, something remarkable happened: for the first time in history, family films reached gender parity in lead roles. Female leads had doubled from 24 percent to 48 percent in just over a decade.
The woman who noticed what was missing had helped put it back.
Geena Davis proved something Hollywood rarely admits: you can change an industry—not by shouting louder, but by showing up with facts no one can dismiss.
And sometimes the most powerful question isn't asked in a boardroom.
It's asked in a living room, through a child's eyes.


~Humans of Club

The Teen-Disengagement Crisis by Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop

Vintage teaching resources from my very first year! 😅 Check out that "3D save icon"...

I'm deep in the chaos of unpacking my new classroom and just discovered this little guy in a box of random "desk stuff". Glad he made it over to the new digs.

I discovered the loveliest little nook of a store today in Kits and got to in time for an enchanted hour sheltered from traffic and city noise as I chatted with the owner, Chris, about all things vintage and maps. I limited myself to *one* piece (so I have a reason to go back, of course): a pretty little geology map relating to glaciers in North America, circa 1952. 🥰

I guess if it's Teams-official, it's real...

"When parents consistently remove obstacles and proactively address potential difficulties, they inadvertently transmit a heightened sense of apprehension to their children, impacting their confidence in confronting challenging situations."

https://www forbes com/sites/traversmark/2023/12/01/snowplow-parenting-and-its-unseen-impact-on-children/

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This idea. 👏