Trauma and Healing

A decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.

Through intimate testimony from African and diasporic women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah replaces narratives of sexual danger and victimhood with a plural archive of desire, pleasure, freedom, and healing.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs learns Black feminist survival from marine mammals, linking breath, sound, collective protection, and ecological crisis.

Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.

Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.

Zarrar Kahn uses supernatural horror to follow a Karachi mother and daughter after the death of their family patriarch, exposing how grief, property insecurity, and male surveillance make ordinary movement dangerous.

Three girls grow up in a Mexican poppy-growing region where mothers disguise daughters from armed men, making girlhood, friendship, and protective care the center of narco-violence.

Set amid Sri Lanka’s political violence, this drama follows a widowed mother of eight whose struggle for income reveals how war, sexual exploitation, and social respectability converge on women’s bodies.

Through an Indigenous Peruvian woman living with inherited fear, the film examines how wartime sexual violence survives in bodies, households, music, and unequal relations of service.

Hannah Gadsby's groundbreaking comedy special Nanette revolutionized the form of stand-up performance, weaving humor with rage to address gender violence, trauma, and identity, becoming a landmark in contemporary feminist culture.