Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous in Eastside Los Angeles, the OVARIAN PSYCOS use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives.

(2016) Directors: Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle

BRAZEN HUSSIES introduces contemporary audiences to the Australian second wave feminists, who declared war on ‘male chauvinism’, traditional sex roles and demanded that women be set free from the ‘chains of femininity’. 

(2020) Director Catherine Dwyer

The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. 

(2014) Director Feriel Ben Mahmoud

A fearless doctor challenges anti-abortion laws by providing safe abortions on a ship in international waters, leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

(2014) Director Diana Whitten

A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it.

(2014) Director Mary Dore

The story of Eufrosina Cruz, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec community of Santa María Quiegolani in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.  Las Sufragistas details her political struggle, as well as Mexican women’s long fight for political power, beginning with the Revolutionary period. 

(2012) Director Ana Cruz

In this award-winning documentary, Cecilia Fire Thunder- the first female President of the Oglala Sioux tribe, defies a proposed South Dakota law criminalizing all abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest, by threatening to build a women's clinic on the sovereign territory of the reservation.

(2013) Directors Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt, Heather Rae

Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right, and negotiating a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of a revolution. A philosophical work, This Stained Dawn is not just about the march, but about the act of political organising itself.

(2022) Director Anam Abbas

Dorothy Foreman Cotton was a bold and highly effective civil rights leader, who educated thousands about their citizenship rights and inspired generations of activists with her powerful freedom songs. The only woman on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s executive staff, Dorothy was a charismatic, courageous and consistently overlooked key player in the Civil Rights Movement.

(2023) Director Ry Ferro, Deborah C. Hoard

On a cold night in December 2012, Jyoti Singh, a 23 year old medical student from Delhi, was brutally raped and killed on a bus by a gang of six men. This attack in India's capital led to a national outpouring of rage and sent shockwaves around the world, with protesters demanding a long-awaited change in attitudes towards women.

(2020) Director Leslee Udwin

The women’s movement has gone mainstream: from the Women’s March to Black Lives Matter to #MeToo. Premiering amid a pandemic and widespread social upheaval, NOT DONE shines a light on today’s feminists paving the way for true equality.

(2020) Sara Wolitzky

A documentary focused on the organising of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), based in Oakland, California; building the long-term collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change.

(2013) Director Gary Delgado

Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present

Edited by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Sklar, Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of Critical Race Theory and intersectional feminism. 

African American Policy Forum

F! It! is a podcast bringing feminist and First Nations approaches to the heart of foreign policy conversations. Hosted by Gumbaynggirr/Dunghutti woman, Julie Ballangarry, F! It! explores the perspectives of the world’s foremost First Nations thinkers and feisty feminists. 

IWDA and the Australian Feminist Foreign Policy Coalition.

In The Feminist Present hosts Laura Goode and Adrian Daub along with a range of feminist scholars, journalists, creators, activists, etc. use the gift of feminism to figure out what’s going on right now.

The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Participatory Action Research Feminist Trailblazers and Good Troublemakers talks with feminists PAR trailblazers about their work, struggles, and successes. We explore their insights for the future of a PAR intentionally informed by intersectional feminisms

What’sHerName Podcast puts the women back in World History. Produced by academic sisters Dr Katie Nelson and Dr Olivia Meikle. What’sHerName take interviews with expert guests and weave a vivid story, to bring to life the “lost” women of history.

Sisteria is a podcast about women & non-binary creatives’ experiences as creators & consumers of arts & culture. Host and producer Stephanie Van Schilt shines a spotlight on the work of a different Australian woman or non-binary creative, delving into how gender and culture influences their creative practice and engagement with the arts. Sisteria is co-produced by Jessica Lukjanow.

The Bechdel Cast is a podcast about the portrayal of women in movies hosted by Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus.

iHeartRadio

New Books in Gender Studies presents interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.

New Books Network

Each week a pair of writers and guests talk through one news story we can’t stop thinking about, and unpack what gender has to do with it. 

Slate Media

The Gender Card is a podcast series by Griffith University's Gender Equality Research Network. Produced and presented by multi-award-winning journalist Nance Haxton. It discusses the practical application of Gender Equality Research.

Griffith University

Proudly representing South Asian feminism, and featuring the world’s best known South Asian women.

Produced by Soul Sutras

We ask the questions we wish we could've asked an Aunty... Share stories, laugh and reflect on what we've learned, in honest chats between girlfriends. Uplifting the proud tradition of the ‘Aunty’. Honouring black matriarchs and claiming the disruptive power of this identity for a new generation of black fems

Women & War: A Feminist Podcast is a platform to learn about women’s struggles for liberation, justice and peace. The podcast amplifies critical contemporary feminist work in the field of war, violence, colonialism, and forced migration. From the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

@WomensResearch is a podcast produced by the Women’s Health Research Institute that explores the latest in women’s health research in British Columbia.

Katie Breen interviews feminist activists, researchers, and advocates working to make gender equality a reality. Through down-to-earth conversations with experts, Femtastic explores issues of reproductive rights and health, progressive politics, gender-based violence, LGBTQ+ perspectives, racism, social justice, and more.

The feminist sports podcast you need. Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs, Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis, and Jessica Luther break down the week in sports and culture. 

Mothers Of Invention is a podcast on feminist climate change solutions from (mostly) women around the world. Former Irish president Mary Robinson, comedian and writer Maeve Higgins, and series producer Thimali Kodikara dig into the biggest climate issues of our time with love, laughter and memorable storytelling.

In this five-part podcast series, journalist and host of 7am Ruby Jones explores the rise and fall of the Me Too movement in Australia and investigates serious allegations of harassment, abuse and assault in the Australian music industry.

Schwartz Media

en(gender)ed features stories that explore the systems, practices, and policies that enable gender-based violence and oppression and the solutions to end it.

Join comedian Deborah Frances-White and her special guests as they discuss topics "all 21st century feminists agree on” while confessing their insecurities, hypocrisies and fears that underlie their lofty principles.

Sistas, Let’s Talk is a show for women across the Pacific region. Each week, host Natasha Meten talks to inspirational women about the issues affecting them, and discusses how to navigate modern life as a Pacific Island woman.

ABC

Podcast series of informal conversations to discuss emerging ideas, trends and issues in feminist thinking and practice, ideas that ignite passion and allow us to find new ways of understanding ourselves, our work, our connections and collective formations for change. We want these conversations to ignite imagination and point to new strategic ways of thinking and working.

In Don't Call Me Inspirational, Harilyn Rousso - psychotherapist, painter, feminist, filmmaker, writer, and disability activist with cerebral palsy - describes overcoming the prejudice against disability (not overcoming disability). 

Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016, Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. Born in 1897 Salam Khalidi's political activism caused countless scandals. In later life she translated Homer and Virgil into Arabic and fled from Jerusalem to Beirut following the establishment of Israel in 1948. She died in Beirut in 1986. 

In the aftermath of the 2020 US presidential election, Krista Comer invited fifteen colleagues into a conversation about feminism and the US West. 

In 1969, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. 

In this memoir, bell hooks, (writer, theorist, educator, and social critic and Distinguished Professor) details her childhood experiences growing up against a background of racial segregation.

Auntie Rita, written by Rita and her daughter Jackie Huggins, is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins first published in 1994. Rita battled dispossession, poverty, personal tragedy and racism to create a rich meaningful life, lived out during the momentous changes of the 20th century.

When Joan Mandle accepted the position of Director of Women's Studies at Colgate University, she had specific goals in mind-to make the program stronger, more academically rigorous, and publicly open. Just as Mandle anticipated, she faced obstacles during the transformation. Can We Wear Our Pearls and Still Be Feminists? explores women's studies from Mandle's perspective as a program director, feminist activist, and scholar. She offers a vivid account of being forced to grapple with fundamental issues of what women's studies is and should be. 

Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s. 

The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist economist Devaki Jain. Over the course of an influential career a Jain seized on the cause of feminism, championing poor women who labored in the informal economy long before mainstream economics attended to questions of inequality. With a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen and an introduction by the well-known American feminist Gloria Steinem, The Brass Notebook perfectly merges the political with the personal.

Among nineteenth-century women's rights reformers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) stands out for the maternal and secular advocacy that shaped her activism and public reception. A wife and mother of seven, she was also a prolific writer, transatlantic women's rights leader. Noelle A. Baker brings together accounts of Stanton's life and ideas from both well-known and recently recovered figures: their voices paint a vivid portrait of a woman of vaunting ambition, powerhouse intellect, and her share of human failings.

New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.  

Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. This final, short book, is the unfolding development of a life and a mind. 

In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait.  

In this memoir Simone de Beauvoir offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.