Feminist Art

An electric memoir by the legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Kathleen Hanna chronicles her journey from a tumultuous childhood through the birth of the Riot Grrrl movement, revealing the raw truths about surviving as a feminist voice in a hostile punk scene while building revolutionary music and community.

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.

Legacy Russell reads the glitch as a refusal of gendered and racialized systems of bodily classification, while asking what digital art can open - and what platforms still capture.

Through work on Sir Lady Java, Black trans women’s documentation, archives, and art, this anthology asks when visibility enables recognition and when it subjects trans lives to dominant norms.

Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan rework Jotiba Phule’s 1873 anti-caste text as a graphic argument about caste, literacy, Savitribai, and the politics of representation.

Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women' reinterprets Louisa May Alcott's classic novel from a contemporary feminist perspective, exploring 19th-century women's struggles between artistic creation, economic independence, and social expectations, breathing new life into the classic story.

In late 18th century Brittany, France, female painter Marianne is commissioned to paint a portrait of aristocrat Héloïse. This portrait will determine Héloïse's marriage, but she refuses to cooperate. During their time together, the two gradually develop a profound and secret emotional connection.

A biographical drama about 19th-century French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's growth and awakening. Keira Knightley brilliantly portrays this pioneering female writer who challenged gender norms, fought for authorial credit, and explored gender fluidity in her legendary life.

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.

Bel Powley is a breakout as 15-year-old Minnie, a budding cartoonist and soon-to-be harlot (her word, not ours). Marielle Heller's exuberant journey through the teenage psyche has more penis drawings than a Seth Rogen comedy, and the best part? It doesn't judge.

If you can't get something done, do it yourself. Ava DuVernay took this adage to heart and wrote, directed, produced, and financed this family drama about a woman grieving the death of a loved one. It made just a blip on the box office radar, but her debut feature offers a peek at the woman behind the camera.