Ecofeminism

Le Guin recasts technology and fiction through the carrier bag, challenging hero-centered stories of progress and making care, relations, and collective survival narratively visible.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs learns Black feminist survival from marine mammals, linking breath, sound, collective protection, and ecological crisis.

A feminist reading of María Puig de la Bellacasa’s account of care as maintenance, affect and political obligation - from knowledge-making to permaculture and living soil.

Donna J. Haraway’s feminist guide to multispecies life, reproductive freedom, colonial histories, care, and making kin on a damaged earth.

Vandana Shiva extends democracy to land, seeds, water, and community, showing how corporate globalization turns the commons of life into property.

Vandana Shiva connects industrial agriculture, fossil fuel dependence, and climate crisis, centering small farms, seed diversity, and food sovereignty.

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.

Directed by Chloé Zhao, 'Nomadland' tells the story of Fern, a 60-year-old woman who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, lives in a van and adopts a modern nomadic lifestyle in the American West. The film profoundly explores the impact of economic instability on women and the possibility of seeking dignity and freedom in capitalist society.

Disney's 2016 animated masterpiece tells the adventure story of Polynesian teenager Moana who saves her homeland. Voiced by Auli'i Cravalho, this film breaks from traditional Disney princess formulas with no romantic subplot, focusing instead on themes of female empowerment, cultural identity, and environmental protection.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Imperator Furiosa leads a group of women escaping the tyrannical rule of Immortan Joe in search of a promised land of freedom. This action film places female resistance and sisterhood at the heart of a traditionally male-dominated genre.

Maya Q’eqchi’ and Xinka feminist and healer Lorena Cabnal connects bodily autonomy and land defense with collective healing and women’s political agency.

Kichwa activist Nina Gualinga connects Amazon defense to Indigenous women’s leadership and to the gendered intimidation faced by those who protect territory from extraction.