Race and GenderVideos

Christienna Fryar’s Oxford lecture compares Ann Pratt and Mary Seacole, returning to Mary Prince and historians’ archival responsibilities.

Rita Segato asks what democracy can be called full while gender violence and racism continue to limit women’s citizenship and political life.

Through an employment discrimination case and the public memory of police violence, Kimberlé Crenshaw shows how Black women disappear when race and gender are examined separately.

Engineer and writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied uses the assumptions attached to a headscarf to ask why visible religious dress is treated as a complete explanation of a Muslim woman's life.

The first documentary film to comprehensively cover feminism's second wave, this groundbreaking 2014 work chronicles the women's liberation movement from 1966-1971. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews, the film brings to life the activists who fought for employment equality, reproductive rights, and sexual liberation, while honestly addressing the movement's struggles with race, class, and homophobia.

Maysoon Zayid uses comedy to show how Palestinian, Muslim, female, and disabled identities intersect while challenging ableism in entertainment and public culture.