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Normal Women
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making HistoryNew York Times bestselling historical novelist Philippa Gregory's magnum opus - a groundbreaking feminist nonfiction milestone that radically redefines the extraordinary role ordinary women played in British history. Did you know there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the 1381 Peasants' Revolt was a tax protest started by women? That Darwin believed women would evolve to become inferior? For the first time, placing women - 50% of the population - at center stage of 900 years of English history.
- Historical Context
- Social Movements
- Economic Empowerment
The Marvels
A superhero film directed by Nia DaCosta, the first Black woman to helm a Marvel movie, following three female superheroes Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan who are forced to work together to save the universe when their powers become entangled. The film explores themes of intergenerational female solidarity, multicultural identity, and women's representation in superhero cinema.
- Female Friendship
- Intersectional Feminism
- Cultural Identity
Women in Black
Women in Black: Against Violence, for Peace with JusticeA feminist movement history spanning more than three decades and five continents, documenting how Women in Black used black clothing, silent vigils, and local coalitions against occupation, war, militarism, apartheid, and gendered violence.
- War and Peace
- Social Movements
- Militarism
No Care Economies Without Domestic Workers!
An AWID co-created manifesto argues that a just care economy must recognize domestic workers’ labor rights and leadership, not treat care as an input to economic growth.
- Feminist Economics
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
Caregiving is real work - let’s treat it that way
Sharmi Surianarain names the people whose caregiving made her other work possible and asks employers to account for that labor in hiring, schedules, and promotion. Read this five-minute talk alongside the ILO’s time-use estimates.
- Care Economy
- Workplace Equality
- Domestic Labor
The Feminization of Resistance: The Narratives of #NiUnaMenos as Social Transformative Action
Three founding members' narratives connect Ni Una Menos with collective action and precarious life, while raising questions about who speaks for a movement.
- Latin American Feminism
- Social Movements
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Data Feminism
It proposes seven practical principles that bring power analysis, intersectionality, situated knowledge, and co-design into data work itself.
- Data Feminism
- Data Justice
- AI Ethics
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmesA powerful feminist analysis connecting historical witch hunts to contemporary attacks on women's autonomy. Chollet examines how the persecution of 'witches' - independent women, childless women, and aging women - established patterns of misogyny that continue to shape how society treats women who defy traditional roles.
- Historical Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
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
Movement Building Means Building Movement
Marcie Bianco examines how freedom depends on sustained collective organizing in this excerpt from Breaking Free.
- Radical Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Race and Gender
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
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
So Long a Letter
Une si longue lettreA widow's letter contests the public story of her marriage, while friendship reveals unequal possibilities for staying, leaving and speaking.
- African Feminism
- Women's Literature
- Marriage Critique
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 landmark Chicana lesbian feminist essays and poems examine family, racialized labor, desire, language, and coalition. This reading centers the 1983 original, not every piece in the expanded 2023 edition.
- 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
Loud Enough - Surviving Justice
Hilary Klotz Steinman follows Madison Smith and her family’s struggle for accountability, asking why evidence does not automatically become justice and who bears the cost of public persistence.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Social Movements
Why Iranians are cutting their hair for ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’
Iranian-British journalist and filmmaker Sahar Zand reflects on memory and explains how hair-cutting became a visible gesture of mourning and solidarity in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Social Movements
- Gender Politics
Mean Girls, Shrews & Sluts: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
An interview with Anna Bogutskaya prompts a closer distinction between identification, approval, and the marketing of female rebellion as an empowering personality.
- Media Representation Critique
- Cultural Critique
- Patriarchy Critique