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Lorena Cabnal: Body, Territory and Community Feminist Healing
Maya Q’eqchi’ and Xinka feminist and healer Lorena Cabnal connects bodily autonomy and land defense with collective healing and women’s political agency.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Body Politics

Design Justice
Costanza-Chock connects trans airport screening and disability justice to community-led design, asking who controls decisions and receives their benefits.
- Data Feminism
- Design Justice
- Data Justice

Hood Feminism
A powerful critique of mainstream feminism's failure to address the basic needs of marginalized women, advocating for housing, food, education, and other survival issues to be at the core of feminist agenda.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Economic Empowerment

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A poetically written and sharply critical exploration of the unspoken pain, anger, and alienation hidden behind the myth of the ‘model minority.’ Cathy Park Hong dismantles the racial and social hierarchies of American society through the lens of her own experiences as an Asian American woman.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Cultural Critique

Emma.
An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel directed by Autumn de Wilde, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The film follows wealthy young woman Emma Woodhouse in Regency-era England as she enthusiastically matchmakes for others, discovering her own true emotions in the process. The director reinterprets this classic literary work with exquisite visual aesthetics and a modern feminist perspective, deeply exploring important themes including female independence, class consciousness, marriage choices, and coming-of-age awakening.
- Class Analysis
- Economic Empowerment
- Female Friendship
Lebanese Women and the Politics of Representation
Writing after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks what it would take to bring women’s organizing, priorities, and decision-making power into parties, unions, and elections.
- Arab Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Movements
Fighting the Tyranny of 'Niceness': Why We Need Difficult Women
This article critiques the expectations of ‘perfection’ and ‘likability’ in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those ‘difficult women’ who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Anti-Feminism Studies
Santiago Commitment
The 2020 Santiago Commitment connects care, countercyclical policy, public services and gender statistics, making autonomy a question of resources and accountability.
- Care Economy
- Latin American Feminism
- Political Participation

Zola
Based on A'Ziah King's viral Twitter story, follows part-time stripper Zola who is convinced by her new friend to go on a road trip to Tampa to earn money dancing, only to get trapped in a sex work situation. This black comedy explores the complex realities of sex work, racial dynamics, female agency, and narrative truth in the social media age through Zola's perspective.
- Sex Worker Rights
- Race and Gender
- Digital Feminism

The Unpaid Work GDP Ignores - and Why It Matters
Economist Marilyn Waring asks why national accounts exclude most unpaid household services from their core production boundary, and why that statistical rule must be distinguished from a judgment about their social value.
- Feminist Economics
- Care Economy
- Reproductive Labor
Violence and Discrimination against Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean
An Inter-American human-rights report follows girls’ access to justice and a Colombian collective reparations case to ask who gets heard after violence.
- Latin American Feminism
- Human Rights
- Anti-Sexual Violence

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Organizers share tools and experiences of transformative justice, addressing harm and accountability without relying on police or prisons.
- Transformative Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Queer Theory

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution
A groundbreaking work of ecofeminist scholarship that examines how the Scientific Revolution transformed Western culture's understanding of nature from a living, nurturing organism to a dead, mechanical object to be exploited. Merchant reveals the intimate connection between the domination of women and the domination of nature.
- Ecofeminism
- Science Studies
- Patriarchy Critique
Women’s Rights to Land and Productive Resources
A UN guide maps the legal standards and practical barriers shaping women’s rights to own, use, control and inherit land and other productive resources.
- Women's Rights
- Gender Equality
- Indigenous Feminism

Coded Bias
Kantayya follows Buolamwini’s research to connect facial classification, women’s expertise and public control of technology.
- Digital Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Intersectional Feminism

Little Women
Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women' reinterprets Louisa May Alcott's classic novel from a contemporary feminist perspective, exploring 19th-century women's struggles between artistic creation, economic independence, and social expectations, breathing new life into the classic story.
- Women's Literature
- Feminist Art
- Economic Empowerment

Climate Justice
Mary Robinson connects stories from Uganda, Mississippi, and the Pacific to climate justice, gendered labor, migration, human rights, and political voice.
- Climate Justice
- Women's Rights
- Global Feminism
Gender Justice and Equality before the Law in the Arab States Region
This United Nations review compares nationality transmission and protection orders. Its examples show how equality in one legal provision can depend on household status, documentation, and procedure elsewhere.
- Arab Feminism
- Social Justice
- Violence Against Women

The Sheer Delight of Being a Feminist
At TEDxJohannesburgWomen, Pumla Gqola recalls encountering feminism amid South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle and considers how joy and imagination sustain collective action.
- African Feminism
- Social Movements
- Feminist Theory

The Charisma Machine
Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.
- Technology Critique
- Feminist Education
- Development Studies
Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Science and Engineering
Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineeringFrom copepod respiration to labels in cooking images, Tannenbaum and colleagues use three figures to show where outcome measures, grouping choices and categories matter.
- Research Methods
- Gender Discrimination
- Technology Critique
Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate
Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate: The Potential of Feminist Political Ecology to Engage with Power in Action in Adaptation Policies and Projects in NicaraguaNoémi Gonda uses fieldwork in Nicaragua to ask how adaptation projects assign women the role of beneficiaries and whose knowledge can change a plan.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice

Short Anti-racist Guide
Pequeno manual antirracistaShort Anti-racist Guide is a bestselling book by Brazilian Black feminist philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. This concise yet powerful book not only explains the structural origins of racism but, more importantly, provides 11 concrete practical guidelines, teaching readers how to actively practice anti-racism in their daily lives.
- Antiracist Politics
- Black Feminism
- Intersectionality

Rocks
The story of East London Black teenage girl Olushola (nicknamed 'Rocks') who must survive independently with her brother Emmanuel after their mother suddenly leaves home, evading social services. This coming-of-age drama showcases deep friendships between girls, urban youth resilience, and the vital role of female mutual aid networks in times of crisis through delicate perspective.
- Female Friendship
- Youth Rights
- Race and Gender