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Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Alexis Pauline Gumbs learns Black feminist survival from marine mammals, linking breath, sound, collective protection, and ecological crisis.
- Black Feminism
- Ecofeminism
- Climate Justice
Little Big Women
孤味A poignant Taiwanese drama exploring family secrets, grief, and the complex bonds between women across three generations as they organize a funeral for an estranged father.
- Women's Cinema
- Family Liberation
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
Queer Indigenous Feminism
The 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.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Queer Theory
Rights, Democracy, and Islamist Women’s Activism in Tunisia and Egypt
This comparative study examines how Islamist women in Tunisia and Egypt articulated rights and democratic participation after the Arab uprisings rather than assuming their politics from party labels alone.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Political Participation
Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Daniel M. Lavery’s memoir-in-essays mixes transition, theology, pop culture, family estrangement, humor, and literary play.
- Trans Masculinity
- Memoir
- Religion and Gender
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Nearly 40-year-old African American playwright Radha decides to reinvent herself as a rapper after facing setbacks in New York's art world. This semi-autobiographical black-and-white film deeply explores ageism, intersectional oppression of race and gender, artistic autonomy, and middle-aged women's identity reconstruction in male-dominated industries.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Arts and Performance
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance
Reveals the forgotten history of enslaved women, reconstructing their pivotal role and indomitable spirit in the struggle against slavery in the Caribbean region.
- Black Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Race and Gender
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Legacy Russell treats the glitch as a strategy for escaping normative bodies, binary gender, and platform legibility, linking queer, Black, and digital art practices.
- Digital Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Trans Feminism
All We Can Save
This climate anthology gathers women scientists, policy leaders, poets, and organizers, treating climate action as leadership, grief, and collective imagination.
- Climate Justice
- Social Movements
- Women's Rights
Nomadland
Directed by Chloé Zhao, 'Nomadland' tells the story of Fern, a 60-year-old woman who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, lives in a van and adopts a modern nomadic lifestyle in the American West. The film profoundly explores the impact of economic instability on women and the possibility of seeking dignity and freedom in capitalist society.
- Economic Empowerment
- Capitalism Critique
- Elderly Women's Rights
Trans Care
Hil Malatino rethinks care labor, mutual aid, exhaustion, and survival from the standpoint of trans communities.
- Trans Feminism
- Care Economy
- Trans Health
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Following her groundbreaking 'Down Girl,' Manne examines how male entitlement operates across various domains - from intimate relationships to healthcare to politics - revealing how men's unwarranted sense of privilege systematically harms women and undermines gender equality.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Male Privilege
- Cultural Critique
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson compares U.S. racial hierarchy, Indian caste, and Nazi Germany to describe caste as a hidden grammar of domination.
- Race and Gender
- Caste and Gender
- Black Feminism
Feminism for the Americas
A revisionist history showing how Latin American and Caribbean feminists helped build international women’s rights and human-rights institutions while contesting US dominance inside Pan-American organizing.
- Latin American Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Historical Context
Burnt Sugar
A sharp and unsettling novel about a shifting power dynamic between a mother and daughter. As the mother's memory fades, the daughter must care for the woman who never truly cared for her, unveiling deep resentment and complex love.
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Contemporary Fiction
- Memory
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Social Justice
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.
- Disability Justice
- Media Representation Critique
- Body Politics
Women Don't Owe You Pretty
A vibrant manifesto for intersectional feminism that challenges beauty standards, toxic relationships, and societal expectations. Given combines personal insight with political analysis to encourage women to reject the pressure to be 'pretty' for others and embrace their authentic selves.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Body Positivity
- Third Wave Feminism
Qiuyuan
秋园Qiuyuan is the debut work of Chinese amateur author Yang Benfen, written at the age of 80. Centered on the life of the author's mother Liang Qiufang (nicknamed Qiuyuan), it tells the story of an ordinary Chinese woman who lived through war, famine, and political upheaval throughout the 20th century. This is a moving work about women, memory, and history, as well as a heartfelt retrieval of the countless Chinese women lost to history.
- Women's Literature
- Family Liberation
- Cultural Critique
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Disability Justice
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
A Very Basic View of Feminism: Feminist Girls and Meanings of (Celebrity) Feminism
A very basic view of feminism: feminist girls and meanings of (celebrity) feminismThis paper explores young women's understanding of feminism, particularly their perspectives on celebrity feminism. The research finds that while celebrity feminism is often criticized as superficial and lacking intersectional perspectives, it plays an important role as a 'gateway' or 'starting point' for attracting and guiding young girls to engage with and deepen their understanding of feminism.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Pop Culture Feminism
Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa
Drawing on fifty-one surveys, Glas and Alexander test the assumption that religious commitment and support for women’s rights are inherently opposed across Arab Muslim publics.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Gender Politics
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.
- Climate Justice
- Mental Health
- Feminist Education
Data Feminism
It proposes seven practical principles that bring power analysis, intersectionality, situated knowledge, and co-design into data work itself.
- Data Feminism
- Data Justice
- AI Ethics