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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Katherine Angel examines consent, desire, arousal and vulnerability, asking why women must perform perfect self-knowledge to be considered capable of safety and pleasure.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexual Liberation
- MeToo Movement
Gioconda Belli: Women in Literature
This Las Recias portrait asks how women become literary subjects, connecting Belli's bodily experience, political commitments and exile to the conditions of writing.
- Women's Literature
- Women's Writing
- Latin American Feminism
Who Cares? The Gendered Burden of Unpaid Care Work
Aina Salleh moves from a family kitchen to Iceland’s Women’s Day Off and Swedish parental benefit to ask who learns, counts and takes responsibility for unpaid work.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Gender Roles
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist movement histories.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Transformative Justice
Fresh Banana Leaves
Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Environmental Justice
- Indigenous Sovereignty
The Lost Daughter
Adapted from Elena Ferrante's novel, tells the story of middle-aged literature professor Leda whose Greek vacation is disrupted by a young mother who triggers painful memories of her own motherhood. This psychological drama explores the contradictions of motherhood, conflicts between female self-realization and maternal expectations, and society's idealizing pressure on the mother role through complex narrative structure.
- Motherhood Critique
- Feminist Psychology
- Female Desire
China’s Fourth Women’s Status Survey: Main Findings
This survey summary connects employment, unpaid work, property and equality attitudes, asking why support for equality can coexist with unequal daily responsibilities.
- Asian Feminism
- Gender Equality
- Domestic Labor
How to Save the World from Aliens, Yet Keep Their Infrastructure
Through Tade Thompson’s Wormwood Trilogy, Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried Asante explore how Africanfuturism repurposes colonial infrastructure to imagine queer and feminist life.
- African Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Queer Theory
UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
UNESCO’s 2021 recommendation treats gender as a concern across impact assessment, research funding, design and deployment.
- AI Ethics
- Digital Feminism
- Algorithmic Bias
A Decolonial Black Feminist Theory of Reading and Shade
Andrea N. Baldwin reads the US university through Black feminism, affect, and decolonial theory, showing how inclusion coexists with institutional indifference and developing shade as a critical method.
- Black Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Knowledge Production
The powerful women on the front lines of climate action
Indonesian conservationist Farwiza Farhan shows how women rangers in Aceh use local knowledge, collective patrols and community forestry permits to protect the rainforest and water their village depends on.
- Environmental Justice
- Economic Empowerment
- Social Movements
My Body
A profound self-reflection from supermodel turned writer, analyzing the complex mechanisms of female body commodification through personal experience, exploring modern women's survival predicament between desire and contempt.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Cultural Critique
The Barriers to Everyday Life
In her TEDxShivNadarUniversity talk, Srishti Pandey starts from the everyday life of a disabled woman to challenge inspiration narratives and connect ableism with sexual autonomy and access.
- Disability Justice
- Ableism
- LGBTQ+
Daughter of the Clouds
Fatma's story connects the choice to wear a head covering with residence, professional recognition and care, challenging a simple test of Muslim women's freedom.
- Migration
- Immigrant Identity
- Religion and Gender
Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media
Through transnational interviews, Sarah T. Roberts reveals commercial content moderation: the automation and safety visible on platforms rely on secret, quantified, and outsourced human judgment.
- Digital Labor
- Technology Critique
- Internet Culture
China’s Women’s Development Programme 2021 - 2030
China’s national programme sets goals across health, employment, decisions and family life; policy commitments must remain distinct from measured outcomes.
- Women's Rights
- Policy Research
- East Asian Feminism
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Six interlocking essays move from rape allegations, pornography, desire, and teacher - student relations to the carceral state and capitalism, refusing to reduce sexual politics to the claim that consent alone settles every question.
- Feminist Theory
- Sexual Politics
- Philosophy
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Angela Chen uses asexual people’s accounts to question sexual attraction as a measure of adulthood, love and normality, reframing freedom through refusal and relationship differences.
- Sexuality
- Queer Theory
- Bodily Autonomy
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
A record of liberation and transformation by Tarana Burke, the founder of the 'Me Too' movement. With overwhelming honesty, it depicts the deep wounds as a survivor of sexual violence, the reality of silenced Black women, and how the hope of 'empowerment through empathy' was born.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Social Movements
- Black Feminism
Happening
L'ÉvénementAdapted from Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, following a 23-year-old French university student's desperate and dangerous journey seeking abortion in 1960s France when it was illegal. Directed by Audrey Diwan, this award-winning film deeply explores reproductive autonomy, body politics, class inequality, and women's predicament in patriarchal society, becoming a powerful testimony to contemporary women's rights struggles.
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Abortion Rights
- Bodily Autonomy
My fight for disability rights
Ivorian lawyer Brigitte Mensah continues legal work and disability-rights advocacy after losing her sight, prompting questions about accessible voting, legal services and public institutions.
- Disability Justice
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Political Participation
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy trace how voice assistants, domestic robots, and intimate technologies encode wifework into the future home, then propose a feminist reboot.
- Digital Feminism
- Domestic Labor
- AI Ethics
Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism
A theoretical cornerstone for the ‘Wages for Housework’ movement, Silvia Federici explores how capitalism has systematically invisibilized and exploited women's reproductive labor. This collection of essays points out the limitations of traditional Marxism and revolutionizes contemporary feminist economics.
- Women's Rights
- Poverty and Justice
- Global Feminism
Don't call people out -- call them in
Loretta J. Ross distinguishes public call-outs from invitations to dialogue: the latter can support accountability and change, but must not make harmed people responsible for endless patience and emotional labor.
- Black Feminism
- Social Movements
- Feminist Theory