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Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil explains how scoring, prediction, and risk models amplify existing inequalities across work, education, finance, and policing.
- Algorithmic Bias
- Data Justice
- Technology 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
Gender-Based Violence: CEDAW No. 35
CEDAW No. 35 connects gender-based violence with State responsibility, consent, protection and reparations.
- Violence Against Women
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Reform
The color of pain: racial iniquities in prenatal care and childbirth in Brazil
A cor da dor: iniquidades raciais na atenção pré-natal e ao parto no BrasilBrazilian birth data distinguish service coverage from equitable care, revealing racial disparities in prenatal provision, companionship and pain relief.
- Black Feminism
- Women's Health
- Reproductive Justice
Disability is not asexuality: the childbearing experiences and aspirations of women with disability in Zimbabwe
Drawing on narratives from 16 disabled women in Harare, Christine Peta examines communication and information barriers in reproductive care, and the tension between imposed asexuality, control of intimacy and reproductive autonomy.
- Disability Justice
- Reproductive Justice
- Women's Health
Secret Feminist Agenda
Hannah McGregor’s feminist podcast links daily practice and knowledge; episode 4.20 with Stacey Copeland opens questions of voice and audio archives.
- Cultural Critique
- Gender Politics
- Women's Writing
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
Eib
Sowt's Arabic storytelling podcast follows how shame and gender expectations shape care, desire and the possibilities of speaking about everyday life.
- Arab Feminism
- Gender Roles
- Care Economy
Beauty and the Dogs
Aala Kaf IfritKaouther Ben Hania’s nine long takes follow Mariam through hospitals and police stations after a rape by police officers, tracing who can act on evidence.
- 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
Notes of a Crocodile
鱷魚手記A cult classic of Taiwanese queer literature, depicting the life of a group of lesbians in 1990s Taipei through a surreal and intense narrative. Written by Qiu Miaojin shortly before her tragic suicide, it captures the raw energy of post-martial law Taiwan.
- LGBTQ+
- Queer Theory
- Queer Identity
Matters of Care
A feminist reading of María Puig de la Bellacasa’s account of care as maintenance, affect and political obligation - from knowledge-making to permaculture and living soil.
- Care Economy
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
How I’m Fighting Bias in Algorithms
Joy Buolamwini traces algorithmic bias from facial-analysis failures to the institutions that decide what systems see, whom they serve, and who can challenge their use.
- Black Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- Data Justice
Tasks with Low Promotability
Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low PromotabilityBabcock and colleagues separate volunteering, requests and acceptance to explain how organizationally useful work can become unequally allocated.
- Workplace Inequality
- Career Development
- Sexual Division of Labor
Sex Object: A Memoir
A raw and unflinching memoir detailing how women are treated as 'sex objects' from a young age and the deep scars this leaves on their self-perception, relationships, and mental health. A leading voice in contemporary feminism, Valenti indicts the essence of misogyny in modern society through her own experiences.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Cultural Critique
A Fantastic Woman
Una mujer fantásticaAfter Orlando’s death, Marina has to explain herself at the hospital and decide how to say goodbye. Daniela Vega’s account of the empty locker and the final song gives a way into her work on the role.
- 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
Gender Stereotypes About Intellectual Ability
Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children’s interestsFour studies distinguish children’s ideas about brilliance, grades and effort, showing how labels can shape interest while leaving later outcomes open.
- Education
- Gender Stereotypes
- Gender Roles