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Female Husbands
Jen Manion reconstructs the lives called “female husbands” in Britain and the United States, asking how marriage, labor, class, and the press produced gender.
- Trans Studies
- Queer Theory
- Historical Context
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always is necessary viewing. A tiny independent film that topped critics' best-of lists, it's about a pair of friends who are forced to travel from their small Pennsylvania town to New York City in search of medical aid for an unwanted pregnancy.
- Abortion Rights
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Untamed
The courage to escape the cage of 'good woman' and 'good mother' and live according to one's own truth. A soulful memoir by an author who overcame years of addiction and a painful marriage to find true love and freedom, empowering women worldwide.
- Women's Literature
- Bodily Autonomy
- Mental Health
Stochastic Volatility
Stochastic Volatility is a leading Chinese podcast hosted by three female media professionals: Fu Shiye, Zhang Zhiqi, and Leng Jianguo. Started in 2020, it has become one of the most influential cultural podcasts in China. The show covers a wide range of topics including feminism, social issues, literature, and cinema, always through a critical and feminist lens. The hosts are known for their intellectual depth, empathy, and ability to connect personal experiences with broader structural issues.
- Feminist Theory
- Cultural Critique
- Social Movements
Design Justice
Starting from trans airport screening and disability justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock argues for design led by affected communities, placing benefit, ownership, and accountability above expert good intentions.
- Design Justice
- Data Justice
- Trans Feminism
Giving Voice to Absence
Mexican journalist and activist Verónica Villalvazo explains the daily work of documenting feminicide and accompanying families when official institutions allow victims to disappear twice.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Digital Feminism
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A poetically written and sharply critical exploration of the unspoken pain, anger, and alienation hidden behind the myth of the 'model minority.' Cathy Park Hong dismantles the racial and social hierarchies of American society through the lens of her own experiences as an Asian American woman.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Cultural Critique
Emma.
An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel directed by Autumn de Wilde, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The film follows wealthy young woman Emma Woodhouse in Regency-era England as she enthusiastically matchmakes for others, discovering her own true emotions in the process. The director reinterprets this classic literary work with exquisite visual aesthetics and a modern feminist perspective, deeply exploring important themes including female independence, class consciousness, marriage choices, and coming-of-age awakening.
- Class Analysis
- Economic Empowerment
- Female Friendship
Lebanese Women and the Politics of Representation
Written 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.
- Arab Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Movements
Fighting the Tyranny of 'Niceness': Why We Need Difficult Women
This 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.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Anti-Feminism Studies
Hood Feminism
A powerful critique of mainstream feminism's failure to address the basic needs of marginalized women, advocating for housing, food, education, and other survival issues to be at the core of feminist agenda.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
Zola
Based on A'Ziah King's viral Twitter story, follows part-time stripper Zola who is convinced by her new friend to go on a road trip to Tampa to earn money dancing, only to get trapped in a sex work situation. This black comedy explores the complex realities of sex work, racial dynamics, female agency, and narrative truth in the social media age through Zola's perspective.
- Sex Worker Rights
- Race and Gender
- Digital Feminism
Violence and Discrimination against Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean
A regional human-rights assessment of the gap between laws and lived protection, with specific attention to girls, reproductive rights, disappearances, femicide, and intersecting discrimination.
- Latin American Feminism
- Human Rights
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Transformative Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Queer Theory
Little Women
Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women' reinterprets Louisa May Alcott's classic novel from a contemporary feminist perspective, exploring 19th-century women's struggles between artistic creation, economic independence, and social expectations, breathing new life into the classic story.
- Women's Literature
- Feminist Art
- Economic Empowerment
Gender Justice and Equality before the Law in the Arab States Region
This 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.
- Arab Feminism
- Social Justice
- Violence Against Women
The Charisma Machine
Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.
- Technology Critique
- Feminist Education
- Development Studies
Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate
Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate: The Potential of Feminist Political Ecology to Engage with Power in Action in Adaptation Policies and Projects in NicaraguaGonda uses climate adaptation in Nicaragua to show how feminist political ecology can return power, emotion, subjectivity, and politics to gender and climate policy.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
Short Anti-racist Guide
Pequeno manual antirracistaShort Anti-racist Guide is a bestselling book by Brazilian Black feminist philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. This concise yet powerful book not only explains the structural origins of racism but, more importantly, provides 11 concrete practical guidelines, teaching readers how to actively practice anti-racism in their daily lives.
- Anti-Racist Politics
- Black Feminism
- Intersectionality
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin retells technological origins through the container rather than the weapon and imagines fiction as a bag holding people, relations, and ordinary continuance against linear progress and heroic conquest.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Technology Critique
Rocks
The story of East London Black teenage girl Olushola (nicknamed 'Rocks') who must survive independently with her brother Emmanuel after their mother suddenly leaves home, evading social services. This coming-of-age drama showcases deep friendships between girls, urban youth resilience, and the vital role of female mutual aid networks in times of crisis through delicate perspective.
- Female Friendship
- Youth Rights
- Race and Gender
Papicha
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.
- African Feminism
- Arab Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
Know My Name
In 2015, when Stanford University student Brock Turner sexually assaulted a woman known as 'Emily Doe,' this case became a symbol of unity for women across America. Because of the worst thing that happened to her, Emily Doe became one of the most famous women in the world - yet no one knew her real name. This all changed in 2019 when Chanel Miller revealed herself as 'Emily Doe' and published this memoir, telling her story as an act of reclaiming narrative identity.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
- Media Representation Critique
Sorted
Jackson Bird’s memoir follows growing up, coming out, public education, online community, and finding language for trans identity.
- Trans Masculinity
- Youth Rights
- Memoir