Who gets to say who we are?

From slavery, gynecological medicine, fugitivity, and public memory, C. Riley Snorton argues that blackness and transness are not parallel histories that later intersect but categories produced together in the United States.

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.

Kit Heyam challenges modern, white, medicalized origin stories of gender variance while demonstrating how to write trans history without imposing definitive identities on people in the past.

Gloria Steinem links self-esteem to self-authority and public power, moving through childhood, bodies, and love to ask how people regain room to act within unequal relations.

Marilyn French's bestselling 1977 novel follows Mira Ward from postwar marriage and unpaid domestic work back to Harvard, asking how economic dependence, women's solidarity, sexual violence, and race shape feminist freedom.

Yashica Dutt extends the language of “coming out” to caste, tracing concealment, shame, mobility, and the politics of public identity.

A feminist collection spanning Western and non-Western settings that asks when migration enables agency and when it reorganizes labor, identity, and control.

Shon Faye places trans politics in Britain within healthcare, housing, labor, class, and punitive systems, making material life central to trans justice.

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.

A manga artist with cerebral palsy seeks authorship, sexual experience, and independent life. HIKARI makes a disabled woman not an object of care but a subject with desire, contradiction, and agency.

A trans woman’s struggle to grieve her partner becomes a precise study of how families, medicine, police, and property law decide whose love and personhood are credible.

Written, directed, edited by, and starring Isabel Sandoval, this film brings trans identity, immigration status, care work, and intimacy into one fragile story of a Filipina caregiver in New York.

Director Maryam Keshavarz's coming-of-age drama focuses on a wealthy Iranian family, particularly headstrong teenager Atafeh whose relationship with her friend Shireen evolves from friendship into romance and even eroticism, alongside her brother's journey from recovering drug addict to religious extremist. This vibrant exploration of sexual rebellion showcases high school protagonists confronting patriarchal oppression, culminating in a penetrating examination of women's treatment under Iranian theocracy.

Girls aren't allowed to be Whangara chiefs. But that's not acceptable to Paikea (Keisha Castle-Hughes), the 11-year-old powerhouse who believes her destiny is to ride whales and lead her tribe. Courage, leadership, and defiance are all at play in this Kiwi drama from Niki Caro.

Adapted from Virginia Woolf's novel, this tells the legendary life story of immortal aristocrat Orlando spanning four centuries, experiencing a gender transformation from male to female during this journey. This pioneering work explores gender fluidity, identity formation, and patriarchal oppression of women through poetic cinematic language.

Canadian avant-garde cinema mostly seen and analyzed by college students, Patricia Rozema's fairy-tale whimsy, about an artist on her journey to self-discovery, is one you should seek out - particularly because it's made by a fantastic team of women.

A bored housewife becomes fascinated by the free-spirited lifestyle of mysterious Susan and embarks on an adventure of mistaken identity. This 1980s film by a female director uses humor and wit to explore themes of female identity, self-discovery, and breaking free from social constraints.

Agnès Varda's 1962 masterpiece uses real-time filming to depict the psychological journey of a young singer awaiting cancer diagnosis results over two hours, standing as a landmark of both French New Wave and feminist cinema.

Maya Deren's 1943 experimental short film explores female subconscious, identity, and gender power relations through dreamlike visual language, serving as an important pioneering work of American avant-garde and feminist cinema.

Engineer and writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied uses the assumptions attached to a headscarf to ask why visible religious dress is treated as a complete explanation of a Muslim woman's life.

This All My Relations episode with Kim TallBear discusses critical polyamory, Indigenous relational ethics, feminism, and settler marriage, making it a key audio resource on how sex, intimacy, and family are structured by colonial power.