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How to care for the people who take care of us
Ai-jen Poo follows care from a trip to choir practice to agreements about working hours, asking how both recipients and workers can make decisions about their own time.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Labor Rights
Blink Twice
Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut, a psychological thriller starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum. Following cocktail waitress Frida who is invited to tech billionaire Slater King's private island vacation, only to discover the men on the island are plotting sinister activities. The film deeply explores crucial issues including power abuse, sexual violence, collective trauma, female solidarity, and elite corruption, showcasing women's awakening and resistance when facing systemic oppression.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Economic Empowerment
- Gender Politics
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Against Women Journalists in Southern Africa
MISA’s UNESCO-supported regional study records media workers’ experiences and observations of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, with a clear account of its sample limits.
- Digital Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
ILO-Magdalene social experiment: Women spend 100 hours of unpaid care work a week
An ILO and Magdalene time-use experiment makes Indonesian women’s invisible care hours concrete, showing how family responsibility consumes rest, paid work, and autonomy.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Workplace Equality
Black Transfeminism: A Radical Way of Thinking About Gender
Yarlenis M. Malfrán situates Black transfeminist thought in Brazil and asks how racialization and cisnormative gender shape both the category of women and intellectual authority.
- Black Feminism
- Trans Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
Project 2025: A Dystopian Future for Women's Rights in America
Led by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 far-right organizations, 'Project 2025' is an 887-page policy blueprint calling for the deletion of terms like 'gender equality' and 'reproductive rights' from federal regulations. This document is a comprehensive declaration of war on women's rights.
- Political Participation
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Anti-Feminism Studies
MaXXXine
The concluding chapter of Ti West's X trilogy, with Mia Goth returning as Maxine Minx. Set in 1985 Los Angeles, Maxine transitions from adult film star to pursuing mainstream Hollywood acting career while facing threats from a serial killer. The film deeply explores crucial issues including women's survival struggles in the entertainment industry, sex work destigmatization, Hollywood power structures, and how women fight for autonomy in male-dominated industries.
- Sex Worker Rights
- Economic Empowerment
- Media Representation Critique
Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality
UN Women connects biased AI outputs with the data, institutions and decisions that shape technology.
- Data Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- AI Ethics
Unpacking the care society: Caring for people and the planet
UN Women defines care as a public good and social infrastructure, connecting gender equality, climate crisis, public services, and care workers’ rights in one policy framework.
- Care Economy
- Climate Justice
- Global Feminism
ILO Resolution on Decent Work and the Care Economy
The 2024 resolution joins redistribution of unpaid care to fair rewards and representation for paid care workers.
- Care Economy
- Labor Rights
- Sexual Division of Labor
Data Feminism for AI
Klein and D’Ignazio bring data feminism into AI research, using tenant screening, feminist data activism, and hidden annotation labor to examine power, consent, and environmental costs.
- Data Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Data Justice
Land and Indigenous Feminist Resurgences
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson remembers seeing a Mohawk spokesperson on television, then follows phone trees, street reporting and migrating eels to ask how movements build relationships over time.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Social Movements
All We Imagine As Light
A groundbreaking work by Indian director Payal Kapadia, this historic masterpiece won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Following three women of different ages - Prabha, Anu, and Parvaty - working together at a hospital in Mumbai, it explores their complex personal lives and the power of their mutually supportive friendship. With its poetic visual language, the film deeply examines crucial themes including female friendship, intergenerational solidarity, identity formation in urban development, and gender politics in modern India.
- Female Friendship
- Cultural Identity
- Intersectional Feminism
Anora
A romantic comedy-drama directed by Sean Baker, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Mikey Madison stars as sex worker Ani who falls in love and impulsively marries Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, before facing fierce opposition from his family's forces. With its authentic, nuanced performances and sharp social critique, the film deeply explores crucial issues including sex worker rights, class differences, economic inequality, and women's survival struggles in capitalist society.
- Sex Worker Rights
- Economic Empowerment
- Class Analysis
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
A black comedy drama directed by Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, starring Susan Chardy. Following young woman Shula who discovers her uncle Fred's body late at night, the film explores the revelation of buried family sexual assault secrets during funeral proceedings with her cousins. With its unique African perspective, the film examines the complex relationships between family trauma, cultural traditions, and women's voices, becoming an important representative work of contemporary African feminist cinema.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Family Liberation
- Cultural Identity
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
An electric memoir by the legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Kathleen Hanna chronicles her journey from a tumultuous childhood through the birth of the Riot Grrrl movement, revealing the raw truths about surviving as a feminist voice in a hostile punk scene while building revolutionary music and community.
- Third Wave Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Cultural Critique
Ann Pratt & Seacole in British History
Christienna Fryar’s Oxford lecture compares Ann Pratt and Mary Seacole, returning to Mary Prince and historians’ archival responsibilities.
- Women's History
- Race and Gender
- Colonial History
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
A memoir from bestselling 'House of Glass' author Hadley Freeman, recounting her battle with anorexia from ages 14-17 in psychiatric hospitals, tracking the recovery journeys of women she was hospitalized with 20 years later, and revealing the deep connection between eating disorders and the difficulties girls face coming of age. Called 'riveting' by The New York Times.
- Body Politics
- Mental Health
- Feminist Psychology
Feminisms in Movement
Edited by Lívia De Souza Lima, Edith Otero Quezada, and Julia Roth, this open-access collection connects feminist theory, embodied histories, and activist forms without treating the Americas as one tradition.
- Latin American Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Social Movements
Japan’s Survey on Violence Between Men and Women (2023)
Japan’s Cabinet Office survey distinguishes physical, psychological, economic and sexual partner violence, exposing help-seeking gaps and denominator pitfalls.
- Violence Against Women
- Gender Equality
- Anti-Sexual Violence
The US War on Reproductive Rights Should Concern Women Everywhere
In the United States, women's reproductive rights are rapidly being eroded. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, nearly 30 states have restricted abortion access. This war on bodily autonomy threatens not just America, but women's rights globally.
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Bodily Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
WHO report reveals gender inequalities at the root of global crisis in health and care work
WHO connects the concentration of women in paid and unpaid care with low wages and underinvestment, showing that the care crisis is a structural result of devaluing women’s work.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Workplace Equality
Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
From the author of Factory Girls, a two-year investigative report revealing how globalization's promise of liberation paved the way for oppression. Follow three Egyptian women navigating between traditional culture and modernization demands.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- Global Feminism
Patriarchy Is Regaining Ground: UN Chief Warns of Unprecedented Threats to Women's Rights
UN Secretary-General António Guterres issues stark warning at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women: 'Patriarchy is far from vanquished; it is regaining ground.' From Afghanistan to America, from digital spaces to political stages, women's rights are under systematic attack and decades of progress are being reversed.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Political Participation
- Gender Equality