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Books · Nov 2025

Girls Play Dead: A Murder, a Memoir

Jen Percy

A chilling investigation into the 1990 murder of Keri Sullivan, exploring the cultural obsession with violence against women, the failures of the justice system, and the psychological toll on survivors and investigators.

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Books · Mar 2024

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Josie Cox

Veteran financial journalist Josie Cox's groundbreaking work telling the story of how women have fought for financial freedom and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality. From WWII 'Rosies' to the investor who broke into the New York Stock Exchange boys' club, this work chronicles centuries of women's relentless struggle for money and power, while revealing challenges women still face today.

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Books · Jan 2024

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Elizabeth Flock

Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Flock's groundbreaking investigative work exploring what few dare to confront: the role and necessity of female-led violence when institutional protections completely fail. Through three immersive narratives of real women who fought back, this book challenges us to rethink what justice, self-defense, and women's safety truly mean.

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Books · Sep 2023

Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom

Marcie Bianco

Culture writer Marcie Bianco boldly argues that 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that perpetuates women's systemic oppression and limits the possibilities of feminism - with a plan to transform the movement.

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Books · Feb 2023

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Angela Saini

Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini's groundbreaking exploration challenging assumptions that male dominance is natural to the human species. Through archaeology, scientific research, and global cultural histories, this book reveals how patriarchy emerged around 7,000 years ago, spread through colonialism, and why understanding this history is crucial for achieving genuine gender equality.

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Books · Sep 2022

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry

Louise Perry challenges a sexual liberalism that treats consent and choice as a complete ethic, foregrounding gendered risk while inviting scrutiny of her biological essentialism, marital prescription, and limited engagement with queer and sex-worker perspectives.

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Films · Sep 2024

The Substance

Coralie Fargeat

A body horror film directed by Coralie Fargeat, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. Following washed-up actress Elisabeth who, after being fired due to ageism, uses a mysterious drug to create a younger, perfect version of herself. Through extreme body horror aesthetics, the film deeply explores crucial issues including ageism, beauty standards, body politics, female self-hatred, and patriarchal control over women's bodies, becoming a representative work of contemporary feminist horror cinema.

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Films · Aug 2024

Blink Twice

Zoë Kravitz

Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut, a psychological thriller starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum. Following cocktail waitress Frida who is invited to tech billionaire Slater King's private island vacation, only to discover the men on the island are plotting sinister activities. The film deeply explores crucial issues including power abuse, sexual violence, collective trauma, female solidarity, and elite corruption, showcasing women's awakening and resistance when facing systemic oppression.

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Films · Jul 2024

MaXXXine

Ti West

The concluding chapter of Ti West's X trilogy, with Mia Goth returning as Maxine Minx. Set in 1985 Los Angeles, Maxine transitions from adult film star to pursuing mainstream Hollywood acting career while facing threats from a serial killer. The film deeply explores crucial issues including women's survival struggles in the entertainment industry, sex work destigmatization, Hollywood power structures, and how women fight for autonomy in male-dominated industries.

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Films · May 2024

All We Imagine As Light

Payal Kapadia

A groundbreaking work by Indian director Payal Kapadia, this historic masterpiece won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Following three women of different ages - Prabha, Anu, and Parvaty - working together at a hospital in Mumbai, it explores their complex personal lives and the power of their mutually supportive friendship. With its poetic visual language, the film deeply examines crucial themes including female friendship, intergenerational solidarity, identity formation in urban development, and gender politics in modern India.

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Films · Sep 2023

Poor Things

Yorgos Lanthimos

A surrealist fantasy drama directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone. Adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel, it follows the extraordinary evolution journey of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life through brain transplantation in Victorian times. The film explores profound themes of female sexual autonomy, body politics, social liberation, and personal awakening through richly imaginative visual language, becoming a significant representative work of contemporary feminist cinema.

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Films · Aug 2023

Anatomy of a Fall

Anatomie d'une chuteJustine Triet

A gripping courtroom drama dissecting a marriage, truth, and gender roles through the trial of a woman accused of her husband's murder. Winner of the Palme d'Or.

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Podcasts · Sep 2025

The Faithful Feminists Podcast

Channing & Elise

The Faithful Feminists Podcast is a show hosted by Channing and Elise, interpreting the Mormon (LDS) official 'Come Follow Me' study manual from a feminist theological perspective. The show emphasizes the coexistence of faith and criticism, covering content including gender politics in biblical texts, marginalized group experiences, sacramental symbolism, and community care, representing a unique voice in feminist religious criticism. The show concluded in 2023, with all episodes still accessible.

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Podcasts · Sep 2025

Feminine Business School

Ainslie Young

Feminine Business School is a podcast hosted by Ainslie Young, focusing on how to build sustainable online businesses without sacrificing health and values. The show emphasizes feminine cycle wisdom, pleasure-oriented business strategies, and archetypal energy practices, covering content including stress management, trauma healing, ancestral energy, feminine leadership, and depatriarchalized business models. With a gentle, spiritual, and critical style, it's suitable for audiences interested in body politics and feminist business practices.

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Podcasts · Sep 2025

Feminism Ruins Everything

Millicent Sarre & Ellis Dolan

Feminism Ruins Everything is a podcast hosted by Millicent Sarre and Ellis Dolan, critiquing film, television, musical theater, and popular culture works from a feminist perspective. With a humorous and highly critical style, emphasizing 'friendly feminism' and cultural deconstruction, the content covers queer representation, gender stereotypes, artistic philosophy, and media renarration, representing one of the cultural feminist voices in the Australian context.

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Podcasts · Sep 2025

Feminist Current

Meghan Murphy

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.

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Podcasts · Sep 2025

Feminist Erotica

Karen & Princess

Feminist Erotica is a podcast hosted by Karen and Princess, exploring desire expression and erotic narratives from a feminist perspective. The show blends critical discussion, creative writing, and cultural recommendations, covering content including queer relationships, disability desire, BDSM, erotic literature, and film/TV analysis, emphasizing pleasure, consent, and diversity. With an intimate, inclusive, and critical style, it serves as an important platform for feminist erotic culture.

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Podcasts · Sep 2025

Feminist Fight Club

Isabella Anzideo

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.

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Papers · Feb 2021

Feminist Mobilization and the Abortion Debate in Latin America: Lessons from Argentina

Mariela Daby and Mason W. Moseley

A mixed-method study showing that Argentina’s abortion debate became politically possible through feminist organization and framing, rather than waiting for favorable opinion, secularization, or party leadership.

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Papers · Oct 2020

Rights, Democracy, and Islamist Women’s Activism in Tunisia and Egypt

Anwar Mhajne and Rasmus Brandt

This comparative study examines how Islamist women in Tunisia and Egypt articulated rights and democratic participation after the Arab uprisings rather than assuming their politics from party labels alone.

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Papers · May 2020

Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa

Saskia Glas and Amy Alexander

Drawing on fifty-one surveys, Glas and Alexander test the assumption that religious commitment and support for women’s rights are inherently opposed across Arab Muslim publics.

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Papers · Mar 2016

Ending Violence against Women in Latin America: Feminist Norm Setting in a Multilevel Context

Conny Roggeband

A study of feminist norm-making from resistance under dictatorship to the Belém do Pará Convention, focused on the persistent gap between regional commitments and state practice.

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Papers · Jun 2011

Virtue and Vulnerability

Virtue and Vulnerability: Discourses on Women, Gender and Climate ChangeSeema Arora-Jonsson

Arora-Jonsson critiques two recurring climate narratives: women as especially vulnerable and women as naturally more virtuous environmental actors.

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Papers · Apr 2006

The Nature of Gender: Work, Gender, and Environment

Andrea J. Nightingale

Drawing on community forestry in Nepal, Nightingale shows gender not as a fixed identity but as a process produced through labor, embodiment, affect, ecological practice, and power.