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Feminist Erotica
Start with episode 2.3 on bisexual self-recognition, multiple pen names and creative labor, connecting erotic expression to identity, privacy and material conditions.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Women's Writing
- Gender Politics
How to Be a Woman
A hilarious and heartfelt memoir-manifesto that blends personal experience with feminist theory, exploring what it means to be a modern woman with unapologetic humor.
- Radical Humor
- Feminism
- Memoir
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Following her groundbreaking 'Down Girl,' Manne examines how male entitlement operates across various domains - from intimate relationships to healthcare to politics - revealing how men's unwarranted sense of privilege systematically harms women and undermines gender equality.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Male Privilege
- Cultural Critique
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson compares U.S. racial hierarchy, Indian caste, and Nazi Germany to describe caste as a hidden grammar of domination.
- Race and Gender
- Caste and Gender
- Black Feminism
Feminism for the Americas
Katherine M. Marino recovers Latin American feminists as architects of global women’s rights, tracing how leadership and social justice reshaped Pan-American organizing.
- Latin American Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Historical Context
Disabled People Face More Physical, Sexual and Verbal Violence
Les personnes handicapées sont plus souvent victimes de violences physiques, sexuelles et verbalesA French study links disability and gender to violence, while showing how institutional residents and people unable to answer a survey disappear from its measures.
- Disability Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Violence Against Women
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law show how electronic monitoring, house arrest, and mandated treatment can expand punishment beyond prison walls.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Social Justice
Breach of Trust
Mishal Mahmud’s short documentary examines the USC gynecologist abuse scandal through survivors and advocates, asking how professional authority and institutional reputation obstruct accountability.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Social Justice
City of Ladies: Modern Artists Are Redefining a 15th-Century Call to Arms by an Early French Feminist
Oxford scholar Charlotte Cooper-Davis follows The City of Ladies into contemporary installation and performance, raising a further question: whose bodies and memories can shape an imagined city?
- Women's History
- Feminist Art
- Cultural Critique
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
The First Slave Narrative by a Woman: The History of Mary Prince
Sara Penn uses Mary Prince’s 1831 testimony to examine feminist bibliography: how genre labels, collaborative authorship, and archival gaps shape who can be read.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- Life Writing
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.
- Disability Justice
- Media Representation Critique
- Body Politics
Women Don't Owe You Pretty
A vibrant manifesto for intersectional feminism that challenges beauty standards, toxic relationships, and societal expectations. Given combines personal insight with political analysis to encourage women to reject the pressure to be 'pretty' for others and embrace their authentic selves.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Body Positivity
- Third Wave Feminism
Qiuyuan
秋园Qiuyuan is the debut work of Chinese amateur author Yang Benfen, written at the age of 80. Centered on the life of the author's mother Liang Qiufang (nicknamed Qiuyuan), it tells the story of an ordinary Chinese woman who lived through war, famine, and political upheaval throughout the 20th century. This is a moving work about women, memory, and history, as well as a heartfelt retrieval of the countless Chinese women lost to history.
- Women's Literature
- Family Liberation
- Cultural Critique
De eso no se habla
Isabel Cadenas Cañón connects inherited silences with gender, memory and the conditions of being heard through Spanish audio documentary.
- Oral History
- Historical Context
- Cultural Critique
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Liat Ben-Moshe connects deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, challenging the claim that closing institutions caused mass incarceration.
- Disability Justice
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
A Very Basic View of Feminism: Feminist Girls and Meanings of (Celebrity) Feminism
A very basic view of feminism: feminist girls and meanings of (celebrity) feminismThis paper explores young women's understanding of feminism, particularly their perspectives on celebrity feminism. The research finds that while celebrity feminism is often criticized as superficial and lacking intersectional perspectives, it plays an important role as a 'gateway' or 'starting point' for attracting and guiding young girls to engage with and deepen their understanding of feminism.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Pop Culture Feminism
Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa
Glas and Alexander use 51 surveys in 15 Arab countries to study how support for women’s rights can coexist with strong religious attachment.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Gender Politics
Giving Voice to Absence
Mexican journalist Verónica Villalvazo, known as Frida Guerrera, documents feminicides. Her talk and a public statement by families show what it takes to record a life, accompany relatives, and demand an investigation.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Digital Feminism
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.
- Climate Justice
- Mental Health
- Feminist Education
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