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Hustlers
A crime comedy-drama directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. Based on true events, following a group of strippers who band together to scam wealthy Wall Street clients after the 2008 financial crisis. The film deeply explores crucial issues including class revenge, female solidarity, economic inequality, sex worker rights, and the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on working-class women, presenting a complex story of how marginalized women seek survival and fight back in economic hardship.
- Economic Empowerment
- Class Analysis
- Female Friendship
Woman: Global Women's Voices and Resilience
'Woman' is a global documentary featuring interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, presenting their authentic experiences on topics including motherhood, education, marriage, economic independence, menstruation, and sexuality. The film not only reveals the injustices faced by women worldwide but also emphasizes their inner strength and ability to change the world.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Education Equality
- Economic Empowerment
The Testaments
Thirty-four years after 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Margaret Atwood delivers a stunning sequel following the collapse of the Republic of Gilead through the perspectives of three different women. It depicts how the fires of resistance are lit from within an oppressed regime and how absolute power eventually crumbles.
- Women's Literature
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
Made in Bangladesh
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.
- South Asian Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Economic Empowerment
Lingua Franca
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.
- Migration
- Trans Feminism
- Care Economy
The Green Wave: Marching towards Legal Abortion in Argentina
Seven 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.
- Latin American Feminism
- Reproductive Justice
- Social Movements
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Harriet A. Washington studies how environmental racism harms Black, Latinx, and Native communities through lead, pollution, toxic exposure, and policy neglect.
- Environmental Justice
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde combines personal narrative and social analysis to show caste not as India’s past, but as power still operating in education, love, labor, and diaspora.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Race and Gender
The Farewell
Lulu Wang's semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Chinese-American writer Billi returning to China to say goodbye to her cancer-stricken grandmother. This warm and profound family drama explores death, family, cultural identity, and the complex roles of women in families through a cross-cultural perspective, showcasing deep emotional bonds between women across generations.
- Cross-Cultural Feminism
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Cultural Identity
Breasts and Eggs
夏物語Mieko Kawakami's 'Breasts and Eggs' is a monumental work of contemporary Japanese literature that challenges traditional feminine norms. The novel follows three women: Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's daughter Midoriko. Through their intersecting lives, Kawakami explores questions of female agency, bodily autonomy, reproductive ethics, and the societal pressures placed on women's bodies in modern Japan.
- Body Politics
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Family Liberation
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin names the “New Jim Code,” showing how automated systems repackage racial control as innovation and calling for abolitionist technological imagination.
- AI Ethics
- Race and Gender
- Data Justice
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Transformative Justice
- Community Activism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
The Carceral Creep
The Carceral Creep: Gender-Based Violence, Race, and the Expansion of the Punitive State, 1973-1983A historical study of how gender-based violence reform became entangled with racialized law-and-order politics and punitive state expansion.
- Carceral Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Prison Abolition
Booksmart
Olivia Wilde's directorial debut revolutionizes the high school comedy genre, following two academic overachievers who decide to cram four years of fun into one wild night before graduation. This self-aware coming-of-age comedy explores female friendship, academic pressure, sexual identity, and teenage identity formation through an inclusive lens.
- Female Friendship
- Education Equality
- Third Wave Feminism
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
A Vida Invisível de Eurídice GusmãoA tropical melodrama about two sisters separated by patriarchal deception, revealing how women’s ambitions, labor, sexuality, and kinship are made invisible in mid-century Brazil.
- Latin American Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Female Friendship
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait de la jeune fille en feuIn late 18th century Brittany, France, female painter Marianne is commissioned to paint a portrait of aristocrat Héloïse. This portrait will determine Héloïse's marriage, but she refuses to cooperate. During their time together, the two gradually develop a profound and secret emotional connection.
- Feminist Art
- Queer Identity
- Bodily Autonomy
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
A profound and philosophical guide to reclaiming our attention in an era where our focus is commodified and efficiency is seen as the ultimate value. Odell explores how 'doing nothing' can be a radical act of resistance, leading to deeper connections with our local environments, communities, and ourselves.
- Cultural Critique
- Social Movements
- Digital Feminism
As Long as Grass Grows
Through treaties, dispossession, food and water, sacred sites, and Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker rebuilds environmental justice around Indigenous sovereignty.
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Environmental Justice
- Climate Justice
Decolonizing Sex
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.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Sexuality
Six South Asian Women Human Rights Defenders Tell Their Stories
Activists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka describe how rights work is sustained amid trafficking, autocracy, militarization, poverty, and gendered retaliation.
- South Asian Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Movements
Surplus Value
Surplus Value is a Chinese pan-feminist podcast founded by three media professionals: Zhang Zhiqi, Fu Shiye, and Leng Jianguo. The show's name comes from Marxist political economy, and discussions range from gender issues, labor and workplace, cultural criticism, to intimate relationships, examining women's situations in contemporary Chinese society from an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Feminist Theory
- Women's Work
- Cultural Critique
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
A shocking exposé into how the world is designed for men as the 'default,' systematically ignoring women's data. Spanning healthcare, technology, urban planning, and economics, Caroline Criado Perez reveals how invisible data bias seriously impacts women's health, safety, and lives.
- Women's Rights
- Cultural Critique
- Legal Equality
The Island of Sea Women
A sweeping historical novel set on the Korean island of Jeju, following the intersecting fates of two female divers over several decades. From the Japanese colonial era through the Korean War and into the present, the story depicts the resilient lives, solidarity, and ultimate forgiveness of women caught in the tides of history.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- Intersectional Feminism
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Transformative Justice
- Prison Abolition
- Anti-Sexual Violence