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Revenge
Coralie Fargeat's breakthrough rape-revenge film redefines the feminist possibilities of this genre. Through extreme visual style and violent aesthetics, the film explores complex themes of female revenge, bodily autonomy, and fourth-wave feminist rage.
- Radical Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
Angels Wear White
嘉年华In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working at the motel reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she stays silent. The film offers a piercing look at the systemic failures and societal indifference surrounding sexual violence against young women in contemporary China.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bystander Responsibility
Unlearning Gender
Bangladeshi organizer Tasaffy Hossain treats gender not as an innate script but as a set of learned expectations that theatre, storytelling, and collective reflection can expose and revise.
- South Asian Feminism
- Gender Norms
- Patriarchy Critique
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, a coming-of-age film about high school student Christine (who calls herself Lady Bird) and her complex relationship with her mother, as well as her teenage confusion and growth in pursuing independence and self-identity.
- Family Liberation
- Economic Empowerment
- Education Equality
Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm
Mingus names the structural experience of disabled people being forced to disclose bodies, needs, medical histories, and vulnerability in order to access basic survival.
- Disability Justice
- Ableism
- Body Politics
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie documents police violence against Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, sex workers, and trans women whose experiences are often erased from public narratives.
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
- Carceral Feminism
How Pakistani Women Are Taking the Internet Back
Nighat Dad explains why access to the internet is inseparable from women’s freedom and how Pakistan’s cyber-harassment helpline turns digital rights into practical support and collective evidence.
- South Asian Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- Technology Critique
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Through her mother and uncles, Sujatha Gidla shows how caste, class, and patriarchy shaped the meaning of freedom across colonial rule, independence, and revolutionary politics.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Historical Context
Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism
Loretta J. Ross situates reproductive justice in women of color organizing, showing how it connects bodily autonomy, parenting, community safety, human rights, and structural inequality.
- Reproductive Justice
- Intersectional Feminism
- Women of Color Feminism
Wonder Woman
Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman stars Gal Gadot as the titular DC Comics superhero, who fights injustice with strength, courage, and her golden Lasso of Truth. A box-office smash that scored more than $100 million on opening weekend - a record for a female-helmed film - it definitely positions Wonder Woman as the antidote to toxic masculinity her original creator imagined her to be.
- Economic Empowerment
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Patriarchy Critique
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the StoryA ground-breaking investigation into how deep-seated gender bias has permeated the scientific community, leading to long-standing 'scientific' misconceptions about women's capabilities. Spanning biology, psychology, and anthropology, Angela Saini reveals the true nature of women supported by the latest research.
- Women's Rights
- Cultural Critique
- Legal Equality
Beauty and the Dogs
Aala Kaf IfritFollowing a rape survivor through one night of hospitals and police stations, Kaouther Ben Hania exposes how institutions convert the demand for care into an ordeal of proof, shame, and intimidation.
- Arab Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Political Violence
The Doctor and the Saint
Arundhati Roy revisits the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi to expose the caste question muted inside Indian nationalist narratives.
- Caste and Gender
- Political Participation
- Historical Context
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
Susan Burton’s lived account connects trauma, the drug war, repeated incarceration, and reentry, then turns recovery into care and political work led by formerly incarcerated women.
- Prison Abolition
- Women's Rights
- Trauma and Healing
Matters of Care
María Puig de la Bellacasa extends care into more-than-human worlds, insisting that care can sustain worlds while also burdening and excluding.
- Care Economy
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
A Fantastic Woman
Una mujer fantásticaA trans woman’s struggle to grieve her partner becomes a precise study of how families, medicine, police, and property law decide whose love and personhood are credible.
- Latin American Feminism
- Trans Feminism
- LGBTQ+
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise
房思琪的初恋乐园A harrowing semi-autobiographical novel by Taiwanese author Lin Yi-han, 'Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise' exposes the grooming and sexual abuse of a young girl by her respected literature teacher. Published in 2017 shortly before the author's suicide, the book sparked a massive #MeToo movement across the Chinese-speaking world. It is a powerful, devastating critique of how high culture and social prestige can mask predation.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Mental Health
- Patriarchy Critique
Brilliant Imperfection
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with CureThrough disability, trans experience, eugenic history, and environmental restoration, Eli Clare dismantles the ideology of cure while preserving the necessary tension between medical need and refusal of normalization.
- Disability Justice
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Crip Theory
Living a Feminist Life
This work demonstrates how feminist theory emerges from everyday life, exploring the revolutionary potential of the 'feminist killjoy' figure. Ahmed combines affect theory, queer phenomenology, and intersectional feminism to analyze how feminists become estranged from worlds by naming problems, and create survival strategies to cope with the walls of racism and sexism.
- Feminist Psychology
- Queer Theory
- Phenomenological Feminism
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
'To transform silence into language and action' - . A definitive collection covering the representative works of Audre Lorde, who fought against discrimination, illness, and power while upholding her identity as Black, lesbian, mother, and warrior. An incredibly powerful intellectual legacy for turning difference into the power of solidarity.
- Black Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
Programmed Inequality
Marie Hicks rewrites the history of British computerization by showing how women’s computing labor was demoted from core expertise into low-paid, low-status work.
- Digital Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Historical Context
If a Story Moves You, Act on It
Sisonke Msimang challenges the comforting belief that empathy produced by storytelling is itself political action, asking audiences to reconnect narrative with facts, plans, and collective responsibility.
- African Feminism
- Cultural Critique
- Political Participation
Hidden Figures
The true story of three African-American female mathematicians who played crucial roles in NASA's space race during the 1960s. They not only had to face racial discrimination but also overcome gender bias, ultimately making indelible contributions to America's aerospace program through their exceptional talents.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Workplace Equality
La Poudre
La Poudre is a leading French feminist podcast hosted by journalist and feminist activist Lauren Bastide. Running from December 2016 to December 2023, the podcast explored contemporary feminist and anti-racist issues through in-depth interviews. The show invited female artists, intellectuals, and political figures to discuss their upbringing, career paths, creative practices, and understanding of feminism.
- Feminist Theory
- Cultural Critique
- Race and Gender