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Books · Mar 2023
The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
Rosa-Linda FregosoA decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.
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Books · Jan 2023
Reckoning
V (formerly Eve Ensler)A lifetime's work from the Tony Award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues. Spanning forty years of journals, V's Reckoning is a powerful collage of poetry, prose, dreams, and letters that chronicles her journey from childhood trauma to global activism, showing how to transform personal pain into collective power and write oneself into freedom.
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Films · Oct 2020
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Radha BlankNearly 40-year-old African American playwright Radha decides to reinvent herself as a rapper after facing setbacks in New York's art world. This semi-autobiographical black-and-white film deeply explores ageism, intersectional oppression of race and gender, artistic autonomy, and middle-aged women's identity reconstruction in male-dominated industries.
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Films · Sep 1987
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Patricia RozemaCanadian avant-garde cinema mostly seen and analyzed by college students, Patricia Rozema's fairy-tale whimsy, about an artist on her journey to self-discovery, is one you should seek out - particularly because it's made by a fantastic team of women.

