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Books · Mar 2023
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
Victoria SmithA sharp work by feminist writer Glosswitch exploring why women in their forties and beyond seem to enrage almost everyone. In an era of identity politics, middle-aged women are portrayed as bigoted, entitled, and morally inferior. Smith traces history to reveal why this specific form of misogyny is so rampant today. Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Awards.
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Books · Oct 2022
The Future Is Disabled
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning SongsLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha connects disability justice to mutual aid, grief, climate survival, accessible art, and disabled joy - without romanticizing care work.
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Books · Aug 2022
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Angela GarbesFirst-generation Filipino American author Angela Garbes combines memoir with cultural analysis to critically examine mothering expectations and assumptions, revealing how American society depends on yet often overlooks the essential contributions of mothers and family caregivers.
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Books · Jan 2004
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooksDeeply analyzes how patriarchy harms men, explores how men can participate in feminist movements, and advocates for building new masculinity based on love and equality.
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Books · Jan 2000
All About Love
bell hooksRedefining the meaning of love, exploring how love can become the foundation for resisting oppression and building a just society, proposing an ethic of love as the core of social transformation.
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Books · Sep 1993
The Fountain of Age
Betty FriedanThirty years after 'The Feminine Mystique,' Betty Friedan challenges another powerful societal myth: the 'mystique of age.' She attacks the 'medical model of decline' and argues that old age is not a pathology or loss, but a unique life stage full of vitality, growth, and self-realization.
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Films · May 2022
The Blue Caftan
Le Bleu du caftanMaryam TouzaniTouzani connects craft, silence and care to queer desire within marriage, asking how love beyond possession can retain a place and choices for everyone.
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Films · Dec 2021
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
Lingui, les liens sacrésMahamat-Saleh HarounWhen her fifteen-year-old daughter seeks an abortion in N’Djamena, Amina discovers that survival depends on a clandestine network of women whose solidarity exceeds law, stigma, and kinship.
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Films · Nov 2020
Little Big Women
孤味Joseph Chen-Chieh HsuA poignant Taiwanese drama exploring family secrets, grief, and the complex bonds between women across three generations as they organize a funeral for an estranged father.
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Podcasts · Sep 2025
Feminist Wellness
Victoria AlbinaFeminist Wellness is a podcast hosted by nervous system specialist and life coach Victoria Albina, dedicated to helping women break free from emotional outsourcing, build self-worth, and establish authentic self-care. The show blends feminist psychology, holistic medicine, and neuroscience, exploring how to break people-pleasing patterns, functional freeze, and other adaptive patterns. Victoria provides practical body exercises and cognitive frameworks to help listeners rebuild connections with themselves. The podcast style is warm yet sharp, suitable for women audiences seeking psychological growth and emotional recovery.
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Podcasts · Aug 2025
Feminist Survival Project
Emily Nagoski, Amelia NagoskiFeminist Survival Project is a podcast hosted by twin sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski, specifically designed for those who feel exhausted in feminist practice while still constantly doubting themselves. The two hosts are also authors of the bestselling book 'Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle.' The show focuses on stress cycles, nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, and emotional labor, combining psychological research with personal experiences to help listeners find ways to survive in patriarchal society. Its style is warm, frank, and insightful.
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Papers
Papers · Dec 2000
Reconceiving Citizenship: The Challenge of Mothers as Political Activists
Kerreen ReigerAn 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.
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Thinking Through Breasts: Writing Maternity
Alison BartlettA groundbreaking exploration of how maternal embodiment, particularly breastfeeding, transforms academic writing and knowledge production. Bartlett develops an 'epistemology of breasts' that challenges traditional boundaries between personal experience and scholarly practice.
