Political Participation
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📚 Books 11
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🎬 Films 9
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu
Iron Jawed Angels
Katja von Garnier
📰 Articles 9
View All →From Women's March to People's March: The Evolution of Resistance in 2025
On January 18, 2025, tens of thousands joined the rebranded 'People's March' protesting Trump's second inauguration. While smaller than the 2017 event, the 2025 marches reflect a shift from mass mobilization to strategic, long-term grassroots and legislative action.
Beijing+30: A Critical Moment for Global Women's Rights
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Despite progress, 24% of countries report backlash on gender equality, and 10% of women still live in extreme poverty. This is a critical moment to renew commitments.
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.
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.
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.
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RBG: A Life Dedicated to Justice
This powerful documentary chronicles the extraordinary life and career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from her early battles against gender discrimination as a lawyer to her iconic status as the 'Notorious RBG.' The film explores her groundbreaking legal work, her partnership with her husband Martin, and her unwavering commitment to gender equality and justice.
An invitation to men who want a better world for women
In this TEDWomen talk, Elizabeth Nyamayaro introduces the HeForShe campaign and calls on men to actively participate in the global fight for gender equality. Drawing from her personal experience and UN advocacy, she emphasizes shared humanity and collective responsibility in dismantling patriarchal systems.
Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
In this TEDWomen talk, sociologist Michael Kimmel makes a compelling case for why gender equality benefits not only women, but men as well. Using humor and research, he argues that equality leads to healthier relationships, better workplaces, and a more just society. Kimmel challenges men to become active participants in feminist progress.
🎧 Podcasts 19
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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 Lifestyle Blog
Feminist Lifestyle Blog is a personal podcast hosted by Tonii, exploring feminist lifestyles, gender issues, and social relationships through casual conversation format. The show blends personal experiences with social observations, covering content including social perceptions of single women, religious and educational conflicts, exclusivity in intimate relationships, women's professional challenges, and emotional expression. With a friendly, highly reflective style suitable for young audiences and feminist beginners. Spotify rating of 5.0 (1 review), providing unique perspectives for feminist podcasting in the Nigerian context.
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.
Feminist Utopia
Feminist Utopia is a podcast hosted by Benita and Debby, focusing on how feminism promotes dignity, solidarity, and social justice. Using American political events as entry points, the show explores abortion rights, Supreme Court politicization, protest actions, and moral discourse authority, emphasizing transgender, racial, class, and religious intersectionality. With a direct, highly critical style, it's suitable for audiences interested in contemporary American feminist politics.
📄 Papers 6
Beyond Identity: Feminism, Identity and Identity Politics
This influential 2000 article critiques both Judith Butler's theory of the subject and the practice of identity politics in feminism. Hekman proposes a middle ground between modern and postmodern conceptions of the subject while arguing for removing identity from the political realm entirely. The paper challenges fundamental assumptions about how feminism organizes politically around identity categories.
Feminist Epistemology and Value
This 2000 article by Alison Assiter develops a distinctive approach to feminist epistemology centered on the concepts of 'emancipatory values' and 'epistemic communities.' Assiter argues that knowledge production is fundamentally shaped by the values of the communities in which it occurs, and that feminist epistemology should focus on creating communities whose values promote emancipation rather than oppression. The paper offers a modernist feminist epistemology that is collective rather than individualist, value-centered rather than value-neutral.
Reconceiving Citizenship: The Challenge of Mothers as Political Activists
An exploration of how mothers as political activists challenge traditional conceptions of citizenship. Reiger examines maternal activism in Australian childbirth reform movements, arguing that mothers' claims for participation in health policy reconceive citizenship to include care, embodiment, and community advocacy.
Beyond the Politics of Location: The Power of Argument in a Global Era
This 2000 article by leading feminist sociologist Sylvia Walby challenges the dominance of standpoint epistemology and the 'politics of location' in feminist theory. Walby argues that in an era of globalization, feminism needs to move beyond location-based knowledge claims and embrace the power of reasoned argument to make effective universal claims about gender justice. The paper engages critically with postmodern and postcolonial feminist theories that privilege particular standpoints over universal reasoning.
Protesting like a Girl: Embodiment, Dissent and Feminist Agency
This 2000 article examines feminist agency through the lens of embodiment, drawing on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to analyze the British suffragette movement. Parkins focuses on Mary Leigh's suffragette career to argue that corporeal performance—the strategic use of women's bodies in daring protests—constituted a powerful form of feminist political agency that contested the boundaries of citizenship and the political domain.
Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy
This groundbreaking 1990 essay provides a feminist critique of Habermas's theory of the public sphere. Fraser introduces the concept of 'subaltern counterpublics' to reveal the exclusionary nature of the bourgeois public sphere, arguing for the necessity of multiple publics and offering a new theoretical framework for understanding democratic participation and social justice.