FemResThe Living Review

Current theme: Futures

Who gets to imagine the future?

Beginning with Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, this issue moves through climate breakdown, racial capitalism, care and community to ask: when crisis arrives unevenly, who is told to adapt alone, and who gets to seed another future?

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Cover storyParable of the Sower
BooksThe Carrier Bag Theory of FictionUrsula K. Le GuinBooksThe Future Is DisabledLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaPodcastsLand and Indigenous Feminist ResurgencesLydia Ayame Hiraide, Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonPapersSituated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial PerspectiveDonna HarawayConceptEcofeminismConceptSocial Movements

Beyond the Cover

29 · Who gets to imagine the future?

Books7

  1. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in IndiaVandana Shiva · 1988
  2. As Long as Grass GrowsDina Gilio-Whitaker · 2019
  3. Pollution Is ColonialismMax Liboiron · 2021
  4. All We Can SaveAyana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson · 2020
  5. The Future Is DisabledLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha · 2022
  6. Feminism for the 99%: A ManifestoCinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser · 2019
  7. The Carrier Bag Theory of FictionUrsula K. Le Guin · 2019

Films6

  1. NomadlandChloé Zhao · 2020
  2. WolfwalkersTomm Moore, Ross Stewart · 2020
  3. Erin BrockovichSteven Soderbergh · 2000
  4. MoanaRon Clements, John Musker · 2016
  5. Plan 75Chie Hayakawa · 2022
  6. Set It OffF. Gary Gray · 1996

Videos1

  1. Climate action's hidden opportunities for womenZineb Sqalli · 2022

Podcasts2

  1. Feminist Survival ProjectEmily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski · 2025
  2. Women's Media Center Live with Robin MorganRobin Morgan · 2025

Articles1

  1. Unpacking the care society: Caring for people and the planetUN Women · 2024

Papers7

  1. Ecofeminism RevisitedGreta Gaard · 2011
  2. Indigenous Women Refusing the Violence of Resource Extraction in OaxacaIsabel Altamirano-Jiménez · 2021
  3. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial PerspectiveDonna Haraway · 1988
  4. The Nature of Gender: Work, Gender, and EnvironmentAndrea J. Nightingale · 2006
  5. Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change DebateNoémi Gonda · 2019
  6. Toward a Queer EcofeminismGreta Gaard · 1997
  7. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from IndiaBina Agarwal · 1992