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Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.
How you feel about the ending of Promising Young Woman likely depends on what genre you think the movie is in.
The problem with Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit isn’t that Beth is too pretty. It’s how the show handles her prettiness.
A year of agony and uproar
If Wonder Woman 1984's heroine is supposed to represent the good and hope for all humanity, one has to wonder who specifically this humanity is reserved for.
In order to access the power we need to change our lives, we must work to dismantle power as domination and instead, advance power through interdependence, relationship and cooperation.
“Freaky” offers liberating and honest portraits of young women and queer people, free from tokenism and broad generalizations to which the genre can often resort.
On the feisty congresswoman’s posthumous return to the spotlight. Abzug’s encounters with sexism pushed her toward feminism, and so did the support she received from female constituents and supporters after she was elected.
A week of furious street battles, and rethinking feminism, decolonialism and indigenous rights
Traversing the rise of second-wave feminism, Catherine Dwyer’s documentary is an important contribution to an overlooked past
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