Flip The Script

About

Organizing data into a searchable data resource about empowered female and non-binary representation in media. The goal of this project is to contribute to the ongoing efforts that define, review and drive for increased representation and imagery as well as give a space for others in the community to participate. You do not have to be technical to participate in this project. That is the beauty of media.

What stories and characters inspire you that you think should be on this list/in the dataset? What criteria should we use? How should it be measured?

Building using Google Cloud Platform since I work there and I have access to resources.

Female & Non-Binary Empowered Media List

List movies and TV resources that feature strong female characters outside the media norms. Viewable in this Google spreadsheet

Criteria - What to include:

Protagonist
Breaks Stereotypes
Agency | power
Goals (beyond finding or supporting a man)
On a journey
Independent ideas
More than one woman
Assertive, intelligent, self-reliant characterists
Survivor
Positive impact
Helping herself or others that is not a man
Robust character

Found this Guante poet paraphrase during the search.

I want her to be free to express herself
I want her to have meaningful, emotional relationships with other women
I want her to be weak sometimes
I want her to be strong in a way that isn’t about physical dominance or power
I want her to cry if she feels like crying
I want her to ask for help
I want her to be who she is

Criteria - What NOT to include:

Saved by a man
Man makes most decisions for the character
Only goal/value is to help a man achieve his goal
Exists only to be objectified
Gratuitous nudity
Standard love story | only has value or is complete when finds a man
Steretypical archtype (manic pixy dreamgirl)
Pits women against women and feeds the women don't get along narrative
Treats a strong women as crazy or a psychopath and reafirms that image
Serial killers

Contributions

Additions welcome. Reveiew the contributing page.

Resources

This is not a Google product.

flip-the-script

Commits

Revised and split index out. List, add, delete and edit working. Reworking needed to make it look good. Mod got setup again when trying to deploy to gcloud. May need to restart again to run.

Fixes so that the new index loads in the site.

New design files that spiff up index page. More needed for integration of data.

Fixed edit and delete page load. Next up is to get edit submit to work and expand the form page for all the contents... its working = P

Quick test

Incorporated more of bookshelf, setup and linked up Cloud SQL which was more painful than needed. Edit and Delete still not linked up.

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