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All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
Emily L. Thuma reconstructs the anticarceral politics developed from the 1970s into the early 1980s by criminalized women and Black, queer, prisoner, and psychiatric-survivor organizers.
- Carceral Feminism
- Prison Abolition
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
Critiques elite feminism and proposes an anti-capitalist feminist vision, linking women's liberation to economic justice, racial equality, and environmental sustainability.
- Marxist Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Economic Empowerment
Pleasure Activism
Explores how pleasure and joy can become central to social justice work, advocating for liberation politics based on body wisdom and collective delight.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Black Feminism
- Queer Theory
37 Seconds
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.
- Disability Justice
- Bodily Autonomy
- Media Representation Critique
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
Yashica Dutt extends the language of “coming out” to caste, tracing concealment, shame, mobility, and the politics of public identity.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Queer Theory
Afrodescendent Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Debts of Equality
A regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.
- Latin American Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
Gender, migration and care deficits: what role for the sustainable development goals?
This article connects women's migration, care deficits, and the Sustainable Development Goals, asking how global policy frameworks can respond to care responsibilities displaced across borders.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Development Studies
A 101 on the Feminist Movement in India
Feminism in India founder Japleen Pasricha offers an accessible movement history while arguing that contemporary feminism must confront caste, class, sexuality, religion, and digital power together.
- South Asian Feminism
- Historical Context
- Social Movements
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
A groundbreaking work written by sex workers themselves, directly challenging mainstream feminist narratives about sex work while providing theoretical foundations and political strategies for the sex workers' rights movement.
- Radical Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff critiques Anthropocene narratives that erase slavery, extraction, and racialized geologic violence behind an abstract “humanity.”
- Environmental Justice
- Race and Gender
- Decolonial Feminism
The work that makes all other work possible
In this TEDWomen talk, Ai-jen Poo frames domestic workers, nannies, caregivers, and cleaners as invisible infrastructure and argues for rights, wages, and dignity.
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
- Labor Rights
How Women in Pakistan Are Creating Political Change
Shad Begum recounts organizing women in Pakistan’s conservative northwest, showing political voice as a long process of education, local service, family negotiation, and entry into decision-making spaces.
- South Asian Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Movements
Histories of the Transgender Child
Jules Gill-Peterson uncovers twentieth-century histories of transgender children and the medical, racial, and political systems around them.
- Trans Feminism
- Trans Health
- Youth Rights
The Hate U Give
Adapted from Angie Thomas's bestselling novel, follows 16-year-old African American girl Starr's journey from silence to voice after witnessing her friend Khalil being shot by police. This coming-of-age drama deeply explores police violence, systemic racism, Black women's voices and agency, and young women's awakening and growth in social justice movements.
- Race and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.
- Disability Justice
- Care Economy
- Queer Theory
Rafiki
A tender romance between two young women in Nairobi uses color, music, and everyday joy to resist a public culture in which queer love is treated as political betrayal.
- African Feminism
- Queer Theory
- LGBTQ+
Colette
A biographical drama about 19th-century French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's growth and awakening. Keira Knightley brilliantly portrays this pioneering female writer who challenged gender norms, fought for authorial credit, and explored gender fluidity in her legendary life.
- Women's Writing
- Economic Empowerment
- Women's Literature
The Chambermaid
La camaristaLila Avilés's debut centers a hotel room attendant in Mexico City, using minimalist drama to show hidden cleaning labor, fantasies of mobility, and women's isolation.
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
- Class and Gender
Climate Justice
Through Ugandan farmers, Mississippi organizers, and Pacific island communities, Mary Robinson reframes climate crisis as a question of gender, poverty, migration, labor, and human rights.
- Climate Justice
- Women's Rights
- Global Feminism
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
A critical examination of how neoliberalism has co-opted feminist discourse, transforming it from a collective movement for social justice into an individualized pursuit of personal empowerment that serves corporate interests while abandoning the vast majority of women.
- Liberal Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Cultural Critique
Roma
Writer and director Alfonso Cuarón has described Roma as a love letter to all the women who raised him. It's a beautiful rumination on all the 'hoods' women go through: girlhood, womanhood, motherhood. A domestic drama about a maid and the middle-class family she cares for in Mexico City, the story is told in crisp black-and-white, but it doesn't take long to see that a woman's work never ventures far out of the gray area.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Class Analysis
- Emotional Labor
The Favourite
Set in 18th-century British court, the power game between Queen Anne and two women - Sarah Churchill and Abigail Hill. This dark comedy explores complex themes of female power, gender politics, female friendship and competition through gorgeous visual style and sharp satire, challenging traditional gender role expectations.
- Gender Politics
- Female Friendship
- Political Participation
Trans Kids
Tey Meadow studies how families, schools, medicine, and law make transgender childhood intelligible in the twenty-first century.
- Trans Feminism
- Youth Rights
- Family Liberation
Amateur
Training for a bout at Madison Square Garden, Thomas Page McBee asks how violence, privilege, vulnerability, and care are made into masculinity.
- Trans Masculinity
- Patriarchy Critique
- Body Politics