Youth Rights

Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.

Jackson Bird’s memoir follows growing up, coming out, public education, online community, and finding language for trans identity.

Jules Gill-Peterson uncovers twentieth-century histories of transgender children and the medical, racial, and political systems around them.

Tey Meadow studies how families, schools, medicine, and law make transgender childhood intelligible in the twenty-first century.

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

A superhero film directed by Nia DaCosta, the first Black woman to helm a Marvel movie, following three female superheroes Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan who are forced to work together to save the universe when their powers become entangled. The film explores themes of intergenerational female solidarity, multicultural identity, and women's representation in superhero cinema.

A surreal campus comedy directed by Emma Seligman about two queer high school students who start an after-school fight club to win over their dream cheerleader crushes. This film explores themes of queer identity, female friendship, gender power subversion, and adolescent sexual awakening through extremely exaggerated techniques, becoming a representative work of new-era queer feminism.

Adapted from Judy Blume's groundbreaking 1970 novel, follows 11-year-old Margaret Simon as she navigates puberty's physical changes, religious exploration, and identity formation. This warm and honest coming-of-age film explores female adolescent experiences, mother-daughter relationships, religious freedom, and the universality of women's intergenerational experiences through a delicate perspective.

The feature directorial debut from 'We Are Lady Parts' creator Nida Manzoor, an action-comedy that blends Bollywood, martial arts, and sisterhood in an empowering story. Following rebellious teenager Ria's mission to save her sister Lena from becoming a wealthy man's caged-bird wife by organizing a friend rescue operation. The film explores themes of cultural identity, family expectations, female autonomy, and intergenerational female solidarity through innovative visual language.

The story of East London Black teenage girl Olushola (nicknamed 'Rocks') who must survive independently with her brother Emmanuel after their mother suddenly leaves home, evading social services. This coming-of-age drama showcases deep friendships between girls, urban youth resilience, and the vital role of female mutual aid networks in times of crisis through delicate perspective.

Adapted from Angie Thomas's bestselling novel, follows 16-year-old African American girl Starr's journey from silence to voice after witnessing her friend Khalil being shot by police. This coming-of-age drama deeply explores police violence, systemic racism, Black women's voices and agency, and young women's awakening and growth in social justice movements.