“Rafiki” is banned in its home country. “Little Woods” takes on a world designed to keep the poor and oppressed poor and oppressed. “Fast Color” re-conceives the superhero. And this weekend, you can watch all three on the big screen.
Cherríe Moraga’s Freedom Road Leads Home
Feminists from across the greater Los Angeles area gathered at Ms. HQ Wednesday for the inaugural meeting of the Ms. Book Club, joining author and activist Cherríe Moraga for a night of cocktails and conversation about her memoir “Native Country of the Heart.”
More Sinister, More Wise
Nine is a magical number. In Greek mythology, there were nine muses; cats have nine lives; there are nine circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno. 2019 also marks the beginning of my ninth year editing and publishing “Sinister Wisdom.”
Storytelling for Social Change: Inside the #HealMeToo Festival
Hope Singsen had done very little producing before she began putting together The #HealMeToo Festival, which just wrapped in New York City. She started with a plan to find a space to produce Skin, her solo show about the road and obstacles to healing and reclaiming intimacy after childhood sexual trauma, and to share that […]
Picks of the Week: Three Films Out Now Featuring Powerful Women Pursuing Freedom
“Girls of the Sun,” “Her Smell” and “Little” are three very different films with a similar focus: the tumultuous journeys of women who want more.
“Shrill” and the End of Settling for Less
Many young women feel the need to coach themselves through moments where they are asking for things from others, no matter how small, because being “demanding like that” makes them feel less likeable and less loveable. “Shrill” shows them otherwise.
Poetry for the Rest of Us
I think it is safe to say that my fire for poetry has been re-ignited. With all of these incredible collections, how could it not be? These are poems for understanding, compassion, anger and resistance.
The Ms. Q&A: Why Papua New Guinean Filmmaker Katherine Reki is Zooming in on Witchcraft
Katherine Reki punctuates the end of each sentence with exuberant laughter, as if the world is a place of great joy. This is more a reflection of her good nature, because the focus of her work as an emerging filmmaker—”A Mother’s Blood,” about witchcraft accusations in Papua New Guinea—is anything but a laughing matter.
Innovation for Oppression
Imagine an app that tracks your movement wherever you go. Imagine that it sends notifications to a male member in your family whenever you check in at an airport. Imagine that it gives them the power, in just a few clicks on their own smartphone, of banning you from traveling altogether. This app is called Absher. You can find it at the Google Marketplace and in the Apple App Store.
Decoding Sex in the Humanities: Five Key Findings from MIT’s Gender/Novels Project
In an intense two-month sprint, the DH Lab at MIT hit the ground running with the Gender/Novels project. Their mission? To teach a program to deliver meaningful data about gender from a truly colossal number of books on a sentence-by-sentence level of detail—and to establish their new lab as a force on campus. This is what they learned.