Who sustains a revolution?

Analyzes the history of the American women's movement from a historical materialist perspective, revealing the interconnections of racial, class, and gender oppression.

A foundational work of intersectional feminist theory. Through fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde explores the intersectional oppression of race, gender, class, and sexuality, creating a revolutionary theoretical framework for understanding multiple identities.

Connecting liberation movements across different eras and regions, from abolitionism to Palestine, demonstrating the importance of intersectional analysis in contemporary social movements.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty moves from a critique of the Western gaze to anticapitalist solidarity, grounding transnational feminism in history, labor relations, and shared struggle.

A 1997 anthology maps law, labor, care, and political organizing across ten African country cases - and opens a debate about how African feminisms are defined.

Amina Mama traces how psychology helped construct the racialised ‘Other’, then develops a Black feminist account of subjectivity through the histories, conversations and relationships of Black women in Britain.

Anzaldúa writes across languages and borders to examine how mestiza consciousness challenges fixed identities and exclusionary forms of belonging.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.

María Lugones develops coalition as a situated practice: remembering plural selves, reading resistance across social worlds, and changing the relations that make oppression seem inescapable.

Sarah Maldoror follows Maria as she searches for her husband in colonial Angola, making women’s movement, care and communication part of the infrastructure of anticolonial resistance.

Payal Kapadia combines fictional love letters, student protest footage, and archival fragments to connect caste-separated intimacy with the remaking of Indian universities under nationalist power.

Rubaiyat Hossain follows a Dhaka garment worker organizing a union, connecting global fashion’s low prices to women’s labor, marital power, and the risks of collective action.

Four girls threatened with cutting seek sanctuary from Collé, turning one courtyard into a conflict over women’s authority, collective resistance, and the power to redefine tradition.

This documentary follows the Dalit women journalists of Khabar Lahariya as they move from print to smartphones, turning reporting into a practice of anti-caste feminist authority.

During Algeria’s Black Decade, a student turns fashion into collective defiance as armed fundamentalism closes public space around women’s bodies, education, and friendship.

Mai Masri’s prison drama follows a Palestinian teacher who gives birth in Israeli custody, locating motherhood, collective resistance, and political imprisonment within the same carceral space.

Through an employment discrimination case and the public memory of police violence, Kimberlé Crenshaw shows how Black women disappear when race and gender are examined separately.

Drawing on Black feminist and disability-justice traditions, two Level Up organizers define collective care as movement infrastructure rather than a benefit added after political work.

Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee argues that girls do not need abstract praise but sustained investment, truthful education, and adults willing to transfer opportunity and power.

Sisonke Msimang challenges the comforting belief that empathy produced by storytelling is itself political action, asking audiences to reconnect narrative with facts, plans, and collective responsibility.

The Gender at Work Podcast is hosted by Aruna Rao and Joanne Sandler, featuring conversations with global feminist activists, scholars, and community practitioners. The show takes a critical perspective exploring issues of love, policy, war, and cross-cultural alliances, emphasizing the intersection of decolonization, anti-militarization, and emotional politics.

This FCRJ episode features Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Indigenous resistance across Turtle Island, land, transnational organizing, solidarity, and resurgence strategies, connecting Indigenous feminism with land politics and anti-colonial practice.