Social Movements
45 items
📚Books27
View All →🎬Films4
The Hate U Give
George Tillman Jr.
Iron Jawed Angels
Katja von Garnier
📰Articles5
Feminism and Women's Rights Movements: A Journey Toward Equality
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the definition of feminism, its historical development (including three waves and cyberfeminism), and its importance in contemporary society. It details the various forms of gender discrimination and explains why specific women's rights are necessary, emphasizing that women's rights are human rights.
From Women's March to People's March: The Evolution of Resistance in 2025
On January 18, 2025, tens of thousands joined the rebranded 'People's March' protesting Trump's second inauguration. While smaller than the 2017 event, the 2025 marches reflect a shift from mass mobilization to strategic, long-term grassroots and legislative action.
Beijing+30: A Critical Moment for Global Women's Rights
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Despite progress, 24% of countries report backlash on gender equality, and 10% of women still live in extreme poverty. This is a critical moment to renew commitments.
The 4B Movement: Political Practice as Radical Negativity
The 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.
Queer Indigenous Feminism
The Red Nation's resource page frames queer Indigenous feminism through kinship, reciprocity, anti-colonial politics, and gender and sexual diversity, making it a practical entry point into key texts and movement materials.
🎧Podcasts2
Land and Indigenous Feminist Resurgences
This FCRJ episode features Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Indigenous resistance across Turtle Island, land, transnational organizing, solidarity, and resurgence strategies, connecting Indigenous feminism with land politics and anti-colonial practice.
Stochastic Volatility
Stochastic Volatility is a leading Chinese podcast hosted by three female media professionals: Fu Shiye, Zhang Zhiqi, and Leng Jianguo. Started in 2020, it has become one of the most influential cultural podcasts in China. The show covers a wide range of topics including feminism, social issues, literature, and cinema, always through a critical and feminist lens. The hosts are known for their intellectual depth, empathy, and ability to connect personal experiences with broader structural issues.
📄Papers6
Book Review: Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship
This book review discusses 'Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship' edited by Moira Gatens and Alison Mackinnon. Bryson, as a distinguished Australian feminist sociologist, draws from her deep research background in welfare states and gender policy to evaluate the book's analysis of gender dimensions in Australian institutions.
Reconceiving Citizenship: The Challenge of Mothers as Political Activists
An 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.
Indexing alternatives: Feminist development studies and global political economy
This essay explores how feminism reconstructs development studies and global political economy analysis, proposing alternative theoretical frameworks for understanding the intersections of globalization, development, and gender. Ramamurthy critiques mainstream development discourse and advocates for analytical perspectives centered on social reproduction and women's agency.
Protesting like a Girl: Embodiment, Dissent and Feminist Agency
This 2000 article examines feminist agency through the lens of embodiment, drawing on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to analyze the British suffragette movement. Parkins focuses on Mary Leigh's suffragette career to argue that corporeal performance—the strategic use of women's bodies in daring protests—constituted a powerful form of feminist political agency that contested the boundaries of citizenship and the political domain.
Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement
This revolutionary article proposes a radical solution to persistent gender inequality: the complete elimination of gender categories. Lorber argues that despite significant improvements in women's status, true equality remains elusive because society continues to be organized around binary gender divisions. She calls for a 'feminist degendering movement' that would dismantle the very foundation of gender categorization rather than simply seeking equality within existing structures.
Dalit Women Talk Differently
Gopal Guru's short intervention is a key starting point for Dalit feminist debate. It argues that Dalit women cannot be represented adequately by either upper-caste feminism or male-dominated Dalit politics, because caste, class, and gender together reshape experience, political organization, and knowledge.