Feminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
53 articles
An in-depth analysis of the global impact of the #MeToo movement, exploring how it has empowered women to speak out, revealed deep-rooted social issues, and driven ongoing structural change.
Sandrine Lamotte / 8 minsHamza Bensouda examines how Morocco’s women’s movement built coalitions across ideological divisions and sustained pressure for family-law, constitutional, and anti-violence reform.
Hamza Bensouda / 10 minsThis Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.
UN Women & UN ESCAP / 12 minsThe Red Nation's resource page frames queer Indigenous feminism through kinship, reciprocity, anti-colonial politics, and gender and sexual diversity, making it a practical entry point into key texts and movement materials.
The Red Nation / 6 minsWritten after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks how women’s visible leadership in protest can become substantive power without being absorbed as symbolic representation.
Carmen Geha / 11 minsThis article critiques the expectations of 'perfection' and 'likability' in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those 'difficult women' who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.
Helen Lewis / 10 minsA regional human-rights assessment of the gap between laws and lived protection, with specific attention to girls, reproductive rights, disappearances, femicide, and intersecting discrimination.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / 10 minsThis regional legal review compares constitutional guarantees, nationality, family law, violence protections, labor, and criminal law across Arab states, making visible both reform and persistent discrimination.
UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and ESCWA / 45 minsSeven participants recount how Argentina’s green-scarf campaign turned abortion from a silenced personal risk into a mass, intergenerational demand for health, autonomy, and democracy.
Amnesty International / 7 minsAnna Bogutskaya’s BFI programming note becomes a starting point for examining female agency, curatorial framing, and the difference between a good woman and a compelling character.
Anna BogutskayaActivists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka describe how rights work is sustained amid trafficking, autocracy, militarization, poverty, and gendered retaliation.
Amnesty International / 9 minsA regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean / 10 mins