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Women Guardians of the Forest
Kichwa activist Nina Gualinga connects Amazon defense to Indigenous women’s leadership and to the gendered intimidation faced by those who protect territory from extraction.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Ecofeminism
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
Hannah Gadsby's groundbreaking comedy special Nanette revolutionized the form of stand-up performance, weaving humor with rage to address gender violence, trauma, and identity, becoming a landmark in contemporary feminist culture.
- Feminist Comedy
- LGBTQ+ Representation
- Trauma and Healing
The Prisons We Broke
Baby Kamble’s memoir treats “prison” as a structure built by caste, poverty, religious discipline, and household patriarchy together.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature
Dalit Women Organizing Across South Asia
A regional case in UN Women’s fund report follows Dalit women’s organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka as they connect land, labor, education, and political representation across borders.
- South Asian Feminism
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
Talking Bodies and Sexualities
Nepali activist Bivishika Bhandari argues that naming bodies and sexuality is a practical condition for health, autonomy, and economic participation, especially for women taught to treat their own anatomy as shameful.
- South Asian Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexuality
From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice
From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women-of-Color Feminism and Alternatives to IncarcerationA women-of-color feminist account of anti-violence responses that pursue accountability, repair, and safety without relying on incarceration.
- Transformative Justice
- Carceral Feminism
- Prison Abolition
Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife
Ali Wong's second Netflix special Hard Knock Wife, released after she became a mother of two, continues to explore the realities of motherhood, the struggles of working mothers, and how women balance family and career with fearless humor.
- Feminist Comedy
- Motherhood
- Working Mothers
RBG: A Life Dedicated to Justice
This powerful documentary chronicles the extraordinary life and career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from her early battles against gender discrimination as a lawyer to her iconic status as the 'Notorious RBG.' The film explores her groundbreaking legal work, her partnership with her husband Martin, and her unwavering commitment to gender equality and justice.
- Legal Equality
- Second Wave Feminism
- Political Participation
Artificial Unintelligence
Drawing on experience as both programmer and journalist, Meredith Broussard dismantles the belief that technology is always the best answer and maps the limits between computation, judgment, and public responsibility.
- AI Ethics
- Technology Critique
- Data Justice
The Crisis in Modern Masculinity
This article traces the historical evolution of modern masculinity, revealing the politicization and pathologization of the 'strong man' fantasy on a global scale, and critiques how patriarchy shapes oppressive roles for both men and women.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Anti-Feminism Studies
- Cultural Critique
Feminist in a Software Lab
Through the making of Vectors and Scalar, Tara McPherson asks whether feminism can inhabit databases, interfaces, collaborative labor, and software architecture - not only content.
- Digital Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Media Literacy
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
From early computing and programming languages to network directories and online communities, Claire L. Evans reconstructs women’s history as programmers, infrastructure maintainers, and creators of internet culture.
- Digital Feminism
- Women's History
- Technology Critique
Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
A groundbreaking 2018 FAccT study revealing severe bias in commercial facial recognition systems against darker-skinned women, with error rates up to 34.7% compared to just 0.8% for lighter-skinned males.
- AI Ethics
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble begins with the stigmatization of Black girls in commercial search to expose how advertising markets, platform monopoly, and knowledge classification produce algorithmic oppression.
- Algorithmic Bias
- Black Feminism
- Data Justice
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Investigating welfare, homeless housing, and child protection, Virginia Eubanks shows how automation disguises austerity as neutral efficiency and subjects poor people to continuous surveillance.
- Data Justice
- Technology Critique
- Poverty and Justice
What Is African Feminism, Actually?
Minna Salami maps African feminism as a dynamic intellectual and movement tradition, resisting both Western universalism and the claim that feminism is alien to African histories.
- African Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Decolonial Feminism
Black on Both Sides
From slavery, gynecological medicine, fugitivity, and public memory, C. Riley Snorton argues that blackness and transness are not parallel histories that later intersect but categories produced together in the United States.
- Trans Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
Transgender History
Susan Stryker offers a concise history of transgender movements in the United States from mid-twentieth-century organizing to contemporary politics.
- Trans Studies
- Social Movements
- Historical Context
Without Laughter, There Is No Feminism
Mexican cartoonist Cynthia Híjar argues that feminist humor can expose everyday machismo, create shared recognition, and sustain movements without trivializing pain.
- Latin American Feminism
- Cultural Critique
- Digital Feminism
Meeting the Enemy: A Cross-Gender Dialogue and Reflection
Through the lens of the documentary 'The Red Pill,' this analysis explores filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey of dialogue with the men's rights movement, and how she moved from bias to understanding, ultimately reflecting on the nature of gender equality movements.
- Anti-Feminism Studies
- Men's Rights Movement Critique
- Fourth Wave Feminism
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
A groundbreaking philosophical analysis that redefines misogyny not as hatred of women, but as a system designed to police and punish women who challenge patriarchal norms. Manne provides a rigorous framework for understanding how misogyny functions as the enforcement branch of patriarchy.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Cultural Critique
Technically Wrong
Sara Wachter-Boettcher analyzes how forms, product copy, defaults, and tech workplace cultures exclude gendered, racialized, and embodied difference from the “normal user.”
- Technology Critique
- Design Justice
- Gender Discrimination
Trap Door
This anthology examines the paradoxes of trans visibility in art, museums, media, performance, and cultural production.
- Trans Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Queer Theory
Battle of the Sexes
A biographical sports drama centered on the famous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Emma Stone portrays tennis legend Billie Jean King, while Steve Carell plays former tennis champion Bobby Riggs. The film deeply explores crucial issues including sports equality, equal pay, women's rights, and LGBTQ+ identity, showcasing a historic showdown that changed both sports history and the trajectory of the women's rights movement.
- Sports Equality
- Equal Pay
- Gender Politics