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Know My Name
In 2015, when Stanford University student Brock Turner sexually assaulted a woman known as 'Emily Doe,' this case became a symbol of unity for women across America. Because of the worst thing that happened to her, Emily Doe became one of the most famous women in the world - yet no one knew her real name. This all changed in 2019 when Chanel Miller revealed herself as 'Emily Doe' and published this memoir, telling her story as an act of reclaiming narrative identity.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
- Media Representation Critique
Sorted
Using childhood journals and online community, Jackson Bird traces how language for a trans life emerges across family, school, and public storytelling.
- Trans Masculinity
- Youth Rights
- Memoir
Hustlers
A crime comedy-drama directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. Based on true events, following a group of strippers who band together to scam wealthy Wall Street clients after the 2008 financial crisis. The film deeply explores crucial issues including class revenge, female solidarity, economic inequality, sex worker rights, and the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on working-class women, presenting a complex story of how marginalized women seek survival and fight back in economic hardship.
- Economic Empowerment
- Class Analysis
- Female Friendship
The Testaments
Thirty-four years after 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Margaret Atwood delivers a stunning sequel following the collapse of the Republic of Gilead through the perspectives of three different women. It depicts how the fires of resistance are lit from within an oppressed regime and how absolute power eventually crumbles.
- Women's Literature
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
Lingua Franca
Olivia cares for Olga in Brooklyn and sends money to her mother in the Philippines. Isabel Sandoval uses a late-night phone call and the silences of a romance to show how both acts of care draw on one person's time, pay and place to live.
- Migration
- Trans Feminism
- Care Economy
Made in Bangladesh
After a fatal fire in a Dhaka garment factory, Shimu starts organizing with her coworkers. A monologue in an office and a door locked by her husband show what it takes for workers to get to the negotiating table.
- South Asian Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Economic Empowerment
CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
CARE places Indigenous authority, collective benefit and continuing obligations at the center of data governance, challenging the idea that access alone produces justice.
- Data Justice
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Decolonial Feminism
Woman: Global Women's Voices and Resilience
'Woman' is a global documentary featuring interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, presenting their authentic experiences on topics including motherhood, education, marriage, economic independence, menstruation, and sexuality. The film not only reveals the injustices faced by women worldwide but also emphasizes their inner strength and ability to change the world.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Education Equality
- Economic Empowerment
Territory: Our Body, Our Spirit
The 2019 Brazilian Indigenous women’s declaration connects land, health, language and decision-making, demanding recognition of narrators as well as narratives.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Environmental Justice
The Green Wave: Marching towards Legal Abortion in Argentina
Seven participants recall Argentina’s Green Wave after the Senate rejected an abortion bill. Their accounts of conversations, marches and green scarves open a path to comparing movement demands with the law passed later.
- Latin American Feminism
- Reproductive Justice
- Social Movements
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 Feminism
- Data Justice
- Technology Critique
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Harriet A. Washington links environmental racism and toxic exposure to health and cognitive harm, challenging claims that racial inequality is biological.
- Environmental Justice
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde combines personal narrative and social analysis to show caste not as India’s past, but as power still operating in education, love, labor, and diaspora.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Race and Gender
The Farewell
Lulu Wang's semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Chinese-American writer Billi returning to China to say goodbye to her cancer-stricken grandmother. This warm and profound family drama explores death, family, cultural identity, and the complex roles of women in families through a cross-cultural perspective, showcasing deep emotional bonds between women across generations.
- Cross-Cultural Feminism
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Cultural Identity
Breasts and Eggs
夏物語Mieko Kawakami's 'Breasts and Eggs' is a monumental work of contemporary Japanese literature that challenges traditional feminine norms. The novel follows three women: Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's daughter Midoriko. Through their intersecting lives, Kawakami explores questions of female agency, bodily autonomy, reproductive ethics, and the societal pressures placed on women's bodies in modern Japan.
- Body Politics
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Family Liberation
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin’s New Jim Code framework shows how racial hierarchy can be engineered, hidden by defaults, intensified through surveillance, or repackaged as a benevolent technical fix.
- Data Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Race and Gender
Claiming Back the Role of Women in Technology
Melina Masnatta traces how gender shapes who is encouraged into technology, from childhood and education to professional workplaces, and asks what institutions can change.
- Latin American Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- Technology Critique
Violence and Harassment: ILO C190
ILO C190 extends protection beyond the office and standard employment, linking prevention, voice and remedies.
- Labor Rights
- Workplace Inequality
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan offer exercises for community accountability facilitators working on survivor support, responsibility, and repair.
- Transformative Justice
- Community Activism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
The Carceral Creep
The Carceral Creep: Gender-Based Violence, Race, and the Expansion of the Punitive State, 1973-1983Using the U.S. anti-domestic-violence movement of 1973 - 1983, Mimi E. Kim traces how collaboration with law enforcement reshaped movement autonomy and how gendered, racialized, and classed narratives legitimated punitive policy.
- Carceral Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Prison Abolition
Booksmart
Olivia Wilde's directorial debut revolutionizes the high school comedy genre, following two academic overachievers who decide to cram four years of fun into one wild night before graduation. This self-aware coming-of-age comedy explores female friendship, academic pressure, sexual identity, and teenage identity formation through an inclusive lens.
- Female Friendship
- Education Equality
- Third Wave Feminism
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
A Vida Invisível de Eurídice GusmãoGuida entrusts her letters to her mother while Eurídice hires a detective. Letters, piano practice and off-screen sound make it possible to follow what each sister knows about the other while they both live in Rio.
- Latin American Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Female Friendship
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait de la jeune fille en feuIn late 18th century Brittany, France, female painter Marianne is commissioned to paint a portrait of aristocrat Héloïse. This portrait will determine Héloïse's marriage, but she refuses to cooperate. During their time together, the two gradually develop a profound and secret emotional connection.
- Feminist Art
- Queer Identity
- Bodily Autonomy
Papicha
Nedjma sneaks out of her dorm to sell dresses, then stages a show back inside it. A white haïk, three friends and the speech of Algiers help explain who gets to decide how clothing can be worn.
- African Feminism
- Arab Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy