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Women Talking
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View All →From Suffrage Movements to #MeToo: The Enduring Global Fight for Gender Equality
This article traces the evolution of feminist movements from the 19th-century suffrage campaigns to the digital activism of the #MeToo era. It explores the four waves of feminism, their historical contexts, and the persistent global challenges to gender equality, including political representation, reproductive rights, and social stigma.
Top Feminists of 2024: From Texas Lawsuits to Global Movements
Ms. Magazine honors 2024's most influential feminists, including the 27 women who sued Texas over its abortion ban, Kamala Harris, Black women voters, and brave women fighting for rights globally.
Reproductive Rights in the Digital Surveillance Era: When Technology Becomes a Tool of Oppression
In the post-Roe era, digital privacy has suddenly become a matter of life and death for abortion seekers. Period tracking apps, search histories, and location data can all become evidence for prosecution. This article analyzes how digital surveillance threatens reproductive freedom and how women can protect their digital privacy.
#MeToo 2024 Report: Rates of Sexual Harassment and Assault Still High
The 2024 #MeToo report reveals that four in five women have experienced sexual assault or harassment in their lifetime, with 37% experiencing it in the workplace. Despite years of the #MeToo movement, sexual violence remains pervasive. Over 68 million U.S. adults experienced sexual harassment or assault in the past year alone.
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.
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.
🎥 Videos 4
Woman: Global Women's Voices and Resilience
'Woman' is a global documentary featuring interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, presenting their authentic experiences on topics including motherhood, education, marriage, economic independence, menstruation, and sexuality. The film not only reveals the injustices faced by women worldwide but also emphasizes their inner strength and ability to change the world.
Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivers a powerful call to action to address the global crisis of violence against women and girls. Drawing on his decades of humanitarian work and diplomatic experience, Carter presents shocking statistics and personal observations about the systematic abuse of women worldwide, from human trafficking to honor killings, and challenges religious, political, and cultural institutions to confront their role in perpetuating gender inequality.
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
The first documentary film to comprehensively cover feminism's second wave, this groundbreaking 2014 work chronicles the women's liberation movement from 1966-1971. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews, the film brings to life the activists who fought for employment equality, reproductive rights, and sexual liberation, while honestly addressing the movement's struggles with race, class, and homophobia.
Embrace your inner girl
In this TEDIndia talk, playwright and activist Eve Ensler explores the concept of the 'girl cell'—a universal source of empathy, vulnerability, and strength that society teaches us to suppress. Through global stories of resilience, she argues that embracing this inner girl is key to healing and transformation.
🎧 Podcasts 12
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Big Bitch Energy
Big Bitch Energy is a feminist podcast hosted by Krystle and Kimber, exploring gender, labor, and cultural issues with socialist leanings and critical humor. The show covers content ranging from sexual harassment in the tech industry, colonialism criticism, body politics, academic patriarchy, social media norms, and gender exclusion in gaming culture. With a sharp, satirical, and left-wing critical style, it represents one of the feminist voices in the Canadian context.
en(gender)ed
en(gender)ed is a podcast hosted by Teri Yuan, focusing on gender violence, oppression mechanisms, and institutional solutions. The show centers on the voices of survivors, advocates, and policymakers, exploring issues such as coercive control, domestic violence, campus sexual assault, gun violence, and media bias, emphasizing intersectional perspectives and cultural literacy. With a profound, systematic style, it serves as an important knowledge platform in the field of gender justice. Spotify rating of 5.0 (3 reviews), representative among gender violence research and advocacy podcasts.
Feminist Current
Feminist Current is a podcast hosted by Canadian journalist Meghan Murphy, focusing on controversial issues within the feminist movement, particularly debates around gender identity, women's spaces, and legal policy. The show approaches from a critical feminist stance, emphasizing women's rights based on biological sex, covering content including Title IX revisions, transgender policy, domestic violence, pornography criticism, and internal left-wing controversies. With a frank and clear-positioned style, it represents an important voice in gender politics debates. Spotify rating of 4.5 (217 reviews), with broad influence among critical feminist podcasts.
Feminist Fight Club
Feminist Fight Club is an educational podcast hosted by Isabella Anzideo, introducing feminist history and contemporary issues in an accessible way. The show's content covers American women's political history, second-wave feminism, gender bias in philosophy, sexual violence statistics and survivor support, and transgender women's history. With a friendly style aimed at Gen Z, it's suitable for feminist beginners and teenage audiences. Spotify rating of 5.0 (1 review), representing an emerging voice among educational feminist podcasts.
Feminist Hotdog
Feminist Hotdog is a podcast hosted by Adrienne van der Valk, dedicated to finding joy and resistance through feminism. The show focuses on everyday feminist practices, marginalized group experiences, and social justice advocacy, covering content including self-recovery, prison system criticism, gender and mental health, socialist feminism, and far-right political criticism. With an intimate, highly critical style emphasizing voices of women, transgender, and non-binary groups, it represents a warm yet radical presence in American feminist podcasting.
Feminist Sleeper Cell
Feminist Sleeper Cell is a podcast produced by Abortion Access Force, focusing on the latest developments in America's abortion rights crisis and anti-gender politics. Hosts Lizz Winstead, Moji Alawode-El, and Marie Khan respond to Supreme Court decisions, anti-abortion organizational actions, misogynistic structures in healthcare systems, and Black women's health issues with satire, anger, and critical humor. With a radical, information-dense style, it represents a frontline voice in American abortion rights advocacy.
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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.
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
This groundbreaking 1991 article systematically articulates intersectionality theory, analyzing how race, gender, and other identity dimensions interact to shape the unique experiences of violence faced by women of color. Crenshaw critiques how anti-discrimination law and feminist movements fail to adequately address multiply-marginalized groups, calling for more inclusive frameworks of social justice.