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Caregiving is real work - let’s treat it that way
Starting from billions of daily unpaid-care hours, Sharmi Surianarain argues that employers must design work around care rather than leaving employees to absorb it privately.
- Care Economy
- Workplace Equality
- Domestic Labor
The Feminization of Resistance: The Narratives of #NiUnaMenos as Social Transformative Action
A narrative study of Ni Una Menos as more than a protest against femicide: a plural political practice seeking to transform precarious life, relationships, knowledge, and solidarity.
- Latin American Feminism
- Social Movements
- Anti-Sexual Violence
2010s Pop Feminism: A Painful Look Back
In this video, Lily Alexandre provides a retrospective analysis of pop feminism, examining its rise, critiques, and eventual decline. The video contrasts the movement's focus on awareness with the need for a more systemic, materialist approach to social change.
- Pop Culture Feminism
- Cultural Critique
- Media Representation Critique
Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom
Culture writer Marcie Bianco boldly argues that 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that perpetuates women's systemic oppression and limits the possibilities of feminism - with a plan to transform the movement.
- Feminist Theory
- Radical Feminism
- Legal Equality
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War
Cynthia Enloe develops twelve connected principles for tracing the gender politics of recruitment, care, wounds, wartime rape, women soldiers, feminist organizing, and the long aftermath misleadingly called “postwar.”
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Militarism
stop denying women their autonomy
In this video essay, oliSUNvia critiques the cultural backlash against 'choice feminism' and the rise of stay-at-home girlfriend discourse. She argues that autonomy must include the right to make non-normative or traditionally feminine choices without being dismissed as brainwashed or anti-feminist. Through nuanced commentary and community responses, the video explores the tension between agency, internalized norms, and feminist respect for individual paths.
- Gender Equality
- Bodily Autonomy
- Domestic Labor
Poor Things
A surrealist fantasy drama directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone. Adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel, it follows the extraordinary evolution journey of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life through brain transplantation in Victorian times. The film explores profound themes of female sexual autonomy, body politics, social liberation, and personal awakening through richly imaginative visual language, becoming a significant representative work of contemporary feminist cinema.
- Female Desire
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexual Liberation
Bottoms
A surreal campus comedy directed by Emma Seligman about two queer high school students who start an after-school fight club to win over their dream cheerleader crushes. This film explores themes of queer identity, female friendship, gender power subversion, and adolescent sexual awakening through extremely exaggerated techniques, becoming a representative work of new-era queer feminism.
- Queer Feminism
- Female Friendship
- Gender Norms
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomie d'une chuteA gripping courtroom drama dissecting a marriage, truth, and gender roles through the trial of a woman accused of her husband's murder. Winner of the Palme d'Or.
- Women's Cinema
- Legal Equality
- Power Dynamics
Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices Against State Violence
One of Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2023. Continuing the trajectory of the Combahee River Collective, this collection brings together scholars, activists, and writers to examine how carceral liberalism masquerades as freedom while perpetuating oppression, critiquing the confluence of neoliberalism, incarceration, and patriarchy.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
Loving in the War Years
Cherríe Moraga's influential essays and poems connect Chicana lesbian feminism, family, nationalism, sexuality, and political memory.
- Chicana Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Latina Feminism
What is Feminism?: From Beauvoir to Contemporary Controversies
In this episode 'What is Feminism?', Bilibili creator Wild Amber Miss traces the development of feminism in an accessible way, starting from Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical thought to explore core feminist issues, social misunderstandings, and contemporary controversies. The video combines book reviews, cultural critique, and personal reflection, representing one of the key introductory feminist content pieces in the Chinese context.
- Introduction to Feminism
- Cultural Critique
- Gender Politics
Unsettling Feminism in Social Work: Toward an Indigenous Decolonial Feminism
This research critically examines how feminism and social work have historically participated in colonial projects, perpetuating structural violence rooted in white supremacy. The author proposes an Indigenous decolonial feminist framework, emphasizing that social work should reorient its justice goals toward collective liberation and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Barbie
In the seemingly perfect world of Barbieland, Barbie begins to question the meaning of her existence and embarks on a philosophical journey to the real world. This pink-packaged blockbuster explores profound issues of patriarchy, beauty standards, and female identity in an entertaining format.
- Postmodern Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Patriarchy Critique
Female and Feminism: Gender Politics in Art History and Responses in the Chinese Context
Female and feminism: a historical overview of women and art in ChinaThis paper explores the multifaceted responses from the Chinese art world to Linda Nochlin's famous 1971 question 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' The author analyzes how feminist art criticism has been translated and practiced in China, and drawing on the theory of 'feminism with Chinese characteristics' proposed by Zhu and Xiao, emphasizes the non-binary nature of gender politics within specific historical contexts.
- Chinese Feminist Movement
- Feminist Art
- Cultural Critique
Four Daughters
Les Filles d’OlfaKaouther Ben Hania combines testimony, reenactment, and visible performance to examine how violence, maternal authority, political upheaval, and extremist recruitment move through one Tunisian family.
- Arab Feminism
- Female Friendship
- Religious Patriarchy Critique
In Flames
Zarrar Kahn uses supernatural horror to follow a Karachi mother and daughter after the death of their family patriarch, exposing how grief, property insecurity, and male surveillance make ordinary movement dangerous.
- South Asian Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Patriarchy Critique
Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty
A radical work by Cambridge economist Victoria Bateman, who has appeared naked on TV, stage, art and protests, using body and brain to deliver her message. Questions: Despite feminism's promises, why do women's bodies remain at mercy of state, society and religion? Are sexy and smart mutually exclusive? Traces bodily modesty pendulum from ancient Egypt to present, calling feminists to unite against female body repression.
- Body Politics
- Bodily Autonomy
- Feminist Theory
Online Opposition to Gender Equality
Research from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines maps how anti-feminist narratives circulate online, showing that digital misogyny is organized through culture, platform incentives, and political identity rather than isolated bad behavior.
- South Asian Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- Technology Critique
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Adapted from Judy Blume's groundbreaking 1970 novel, follows 11-year-old Margaret Simon as she navigates puberty's physical changes, religious exploration, and identity formation. This warm and honest coming-of-age film explores female adolescent experiences, mother-daughter relationships, religious freedom, and the universality of women's intergenerational experiences through a delicate perspective.
- Gender Socialization
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Youth Rights
Polite Society
The feature directorial debut from 'We Are Lady Parts' creator Nida Manzoor, an action-comedy that blends Bollywood, martial arts, and sisterhood in an empowering story. Following rebellious teenager Ria's mission to save her sister Lena from becoming a wealthy man's caged-bird wife by organizing a friend rescue operation. The film explores themes of cultural identity, family expectations, female autonomy, and intergenerational female solidarity through innovative visual language.
- Cultural Identity
- Female Friendship
- Family Liberation
Feminism Against Progress
UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington introduces 'reactionary feminism,' critiquing modern feminism as serving only elite professional women. She argues technological progress commodifies women's bodies and reproductive abilities, calling for a fundamental reassessment of what 'progress' means for most women.
- Feminist Theory
- Technology Critique
- Body Politics
Intersectional Feminist Theory as a Non-Ideal Theory: Asian American Women Navigating Identity and Power
This philosophical examination argues that intersectional feminism functions as a strong version of non-ideal theory, focusing on the multiply oppressed to understand how intersecting structures of oppression work and generate strategies for dismantling them. Through analyzing Asian American women's experiences navigating identity and power, the paper reveals three characteristic types of identity-power relationships: manifestation of oppression through identity construction, reproduction of oppression, and creation of resistance and solidarity through identity reconstruction.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Asian American Feminism
- Political Philosophy
The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
A decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights