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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.
- Data Feminism
- Algorithmic Bias
- Black Feminism
Without Laughter, There Is No Feminism
Mexican comedian Cynthia Híjar starts with an account of online threats, then uses the comic character Nacho Progre to ask what it means to recognize everyday machismo in a joke.
- Latin American Feminism
- Cultural Critique
- Digital Feminism
Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism
Loretta J. Ross frames reproductive justice as Black feminist movement praxis: three linked rights, material conditions, and the risks of separating reproductive choice from race and power.
- Reproductive Justice
- Intersectional Feminism
- Women of Color Feminism
Gender and the Politics of History
Joan Wallach Scott's 1988 landmark work establishes gender as a central category of historical analysis, profoundly challenging biological determinism and essentialism in traditional historiography, and laying a solid foundation for feminist historical theory.
- Feminist Theory
- Historical Context
- Gender Studies
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens
Uma Chakravarti reads caste not as a simple social hierarchy, but as a historical order sustained through control of women’s sexuality, marriage, and inheritance.
- Brahmanical Patriarchy
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Theory
Dalit Women Organizing Across South Asia
From Moni Rani Das’s organising in Dhaka to local budgets in Nepal, a UN Women case follows how Dalit women get a voice in the decisions that govern their work and lives.
- South Asian Feminism
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
Design Justice Network Principles
Ten collective principles shift design authority toward affected communities. Their test is whether participation changes decisions, ownership and the work of maintenance.
- Design Justice
- Data Justice
- Community Activism
The Chambermaid
La camaristaLila Avilés follows a Mexico City chambermaid through spotless rooms, an unclaimed red dress and the pursuit of promotion, asking who gets to control work time and give care.
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
- Class and Gender
The Cleaners
Five Manila moderators reveal the human judgments and outsourced risks behind platforms’ apparently automated public spaces.
- Digital Feminism
- Digital Labor
- Labor Rights
Trap Door
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of VisibilityThrough work on Sir Lady Java, Black trans women’s documentation, archives, and art, this anthology asks when visibility enables recognition and when it subjects trans lives to dominant norms.
- Trans Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Queer Theory
A Whore and a Feminist: Chronicles of a Sex Worker
Argentine sex-worker organizer Georgina Orellano moves from a schoolyard story about her son to questions of stigma, collective organization and labor rights.
- Sex Worker Rights
- Labor Rights
- Sexual Politics
What Is African Feminism, Actually?
Minna Salami explores African feminist strands and the uses and limits of mapping distinct histories, places and intellectual traditions.
- 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
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Puar examines how selective queer inclusion can accompany racialized exclusion, linking sexuality, nationalism and security through homonationalism.
- Queer Theory
- Nationalism
- Race and Gender
Unlearning Gender
Tasaffy Hossain follows a chicken foot across a family table and a serving spoon across a work lunch. Those objects show how people learn who should do a task, then use the rule to judge themselves.
- South Asian Feminism
- Gender Norms
- Patriarchy Critique
Naila and the Uprising
Julia Bacha follows Palestinian women whose care and clandestine organizing sustained the First Intifada, asking why leadership did not secure political representation.
- Arab Feminism
- Women's Cinema
- War and Peace
Transgender History
Susan Stryker’s 2017 second edition traces U.S. trans communities and movements from the postwar era through the 2000s, showing how political language and coalitions change over time.
- Trans Studies
- Social Movements
- Historical Context
MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men’s Rights movement
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
Un podcast à soi
Charlotte Bienaimé combines testimony, research and literature, from offices to farms, asking whose labor and knowledge count.
- Workplace Inequality
- Gender Roles
- Intersectional Feminism
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
Les Couilles sur la table
French interviews examine how masculine recognition and workplace authority sustain unequal power.
- Gender Roles
- Patriarchy Critique
- Workplace Inequality
Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Janet Abbate traces the historical shift from women’s high participation in computing work to the formation of masculinized professional identity.
- Digital Feminism
- Women's History
- Labor Rights
Angels Wear White
嘉年华Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White traces how Mia’s precarious work, two girls’ different family responses and attorney Hao’s support shape who can testify and find safety.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bystander Responsibility