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Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

An extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism by award-winning Gitxsan journalist Angela Sterritt who survived life on the streets. Combining personal narrative with in-depth investigation into Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), this book reveals how colonialism and racism created a society where Indigenous women's lives are ignored and devalued, while proving that Indigenous women's strength and brilliance is unbroken.

  • Indigenous Feminism
  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Decolonial Feminism
194

Happening

L'Événement

Adapted from Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, following a 23-year-old French university student's desperate and dangerous journey seeking abortion in 1960s France when it was illegal. Directed by Audrey Diwan, this award-winning film deeply explores reproductive autonomy, body politics, class inequality, and women's predicament in patriarchal society, becoming a powerful testimony to contemporary women's rights struggles.

  • Reproductive Autonomy
  • Abortion Rights
  • Bodily Autonomy
195

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy trace how voice assistants, domestic robots, and intimate technologies encode wifework into the future home, then propose a feminist reboot.

  • Digital Feminism
  • Domestic Labor
  • AI Ethics
196

Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Capitalism, and Feminism

A theoretical cornerstone for the 'Wages for Housework' movement, Silvia Federici explores how capitalism has systematically invisibilized and exploited women's reproductive labor. This collection of essays points out the limitations of traditional Marxism and revolutionizes contemporary feminist economics.

  • Women's Rights
  • Poverty and Justice
  • Global Feminism
197

A Night of Knowing Nothing

Payal Kapadia combines fictional love letters, student protest footage, and archival fragments to connect caste-separated intimacy with the remaking of Indian universities under nationalist power.

  • South Asian Feminism
  • Caste and Gender
  • Social Movements
198

Prayers for the Stolen

Noche de fuego

Three girls grow up in a Mexican poppy-growing region where mothers disguise daughters from armed men, making girlhood, friendship, and protective care the center of narco-violence.

  • Latin American Feminism
  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Girlhood
199

Rehana Maryam Noor

A medical professor’s pursuit of accountability after suspected sexual abuse becomes an abrasive study of institutional denial, maternal pressure, and the costs of being believed only when one performs the perfect victim.

  • South Asian Feminism
  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Patriarchy Critique
200

Skater Girl

The coming-of-age story of Prerna, a teenage girl from a remote village in Rajasthan who discovers skateboarding and challenges traditional gender expectations and social norms. This family-friendly inspirational film explores Indian rural women's educational rights, gender equality, caste system, and the transformative role of sports in women's empowerment through skateboarding.

  • Gender Norms
  • Education Equality
  • Sports Equality
201

Trans Medicine

stef m. shuster studies how clinicians learn to treat gender and how authority, uncertainty, and gatekeeping shape trans medicine.

  • Trans Health
  • Medical Patriarchy Critique
  • Trans Feminism
202

Indigenous Women Refusing the Violence of Resource Extraction in Oaxaca

A place-based Indigenous feminist analysis showing that mining violence acts on bodies, water, land, and community relations - and that women’s refusal defends this entire web of life.

  • Latin American Feminism
  • Indigenous Feminism
  • Ecofeminism
203

Transgender Marxism

This anthology joins transgender studies with Marxist theory to analyze capitalism, social reproduction, labor, embodiment, and liberation.

  • Trans Feminism
  • Marxist Feminism
  • Capitalism Critique
204

Pollution Is Colonialism

Max Liboiron uses plastic pollution research to show how environmental science can presume access to land, while modeling anticolonial research ethics.

  • Environmental Justice
  • Indigenous Sovereignty
  • Science Studies
205

Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford maps AI through minerals, energy, hidden labor, training data, classification, and state surveillance, revealing the extraction and concentrated power beneath machine intelligence.

  • AI Ethics
  • Data Justice
  • Labor Rights
206

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Leila Ahmed traces how gender norms in Muslim societies were formed through changing social orders, legal interpretation, colonial power, and modern nationalist debate rather than by a single timeless religious command.

  • Arab Feminism
  • Religion and Gender
  • Colonial History
207

Your Computer Is on Fire

This collection rewrites computing history through colonialism, race, gender, environment, and labor, refusing to treat technical problems as merely engineering problems.

  • Technology Critique
  • Data Justice
  • Race and Gender
208

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

A groundbreaking investigation into the online world of extreme misogyny, exposing how incel communities, pickup artists, and the broader 'manosphere' radicalize men against women. Bates reveals the dangerous real-world consequences of digital hatred and its impact on society as a whole.

  • Men's Rights Movement Critique
  • Digital Feminism
  • Cultural Critique
209

We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

  • Prison Abolition
  • Transformative Justice
  • Black Feminism
210

Feminist Mobilization and the Abortion Debate in Latin America: Lessons from Argentina

A mixed-method study showing that Argentina’s abortion debate became politically possible through feminist organization and framing, rather than waiting for favorable opinion, secularization, or party leadership.

  • Latin American Feminism
  • Reproductive Justice
  • Social Movements
211

Writing with Fire

This documentary follows the Dalit women journalists of Khabar Lahariya as they move from print to smartphones, turning reporting into a practice of anti-caste feminist authority.

  • South Asian Feminism
  • Dalit Feminism
  • Caste and Gender
212

The Great Indian Kitchen

Jeo Baby turns repetitive cooking and cleaning into a rigorous account of how marriage naturalizes women’s unpaid labor, bodily discipline, and religious exclusion.

  • South Asian Feminism
  • Domestic Labor
  • Care Economy
213

Detransition, Baby

A ruthless dissection of the trans-cis divide, reimagining the nuclear family through the wreckage of gender.

  • Trans Feminism
  • Queer Theory
  • Family Liberation
214

Promising Young Woman

A bold and provocative thriller that confronts rape culture through the story of Cassie, a woman seeking justice for her best friend's assault. This Academy Award-winning film challenges audiences to examine complicity, consent, and the systems that protect predators.

  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Rape Culture Critique
  • Bystander Responsibility
215

Wolfwalkers

In 1650 Kilkenny, Ireland, the friendship story between English girl Robyn and wild girl Mebh. This hand-drawn animation masterpiece fuses Irish folklore with feminist themes, deeply exploring gender role constraints, environmental protection, cultural colonialism, and female friendship and empowerment through two girls' journey of challenging patriarchal constraints and embracing natural forces.

  • Female Friendship
  • Gender Norms
  • Ecofeminism
216

The Long Road to Equality

This Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.

  • South Asian Feminism
  • Gender Politics
  • Economic Empowerment