More Than A Magazine, A Movement
If you want a glimmer of hope that there are still sane, compassionate and intelligent politicians in the world, Prime Minister—winner of the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition—will offer just that and more.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s sure-footed and community-minded approach to leadership shines through in this inspiring documentary directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz.
Sean Baker’s Anora invites our capacities for feelings, not judgment, to accompany one young, female sex worker through a few roller-coaster, genre-defying weeks in her life. Like all of Sean Baker’s films, it refuses an ending that tells us what to think. It doesn’t tie things up and lead us to a morally unambiguous conclusion but to the perfect, emotionally right one. And the magic of it is that it does it without much being said.
While the comic parts of the movie, like classic screwball comedies, are full of characters whose talk bumps into each other, jostling for our attention and laughter, the last movement has hardly any dialogue at all. And it will stay with you for a long time.
HB 446 is just one of a new generation of social purity laws being presented across the country, using fears of “social contagion” from over a century ago that still ring true for many Americans.
Understanding this history is vital to unpacking the danger—often connected growing white supremacist movements—of these laws and the social fears they represent.
For generations, true crime media served as a tool for men’s control over women, using lurid stories of violence to encourage women’s fear and submission. From Victorian penny dreadfuls to mid-20th-century pulp magazines, these narratives reduced female victims to passive objects while often subtly suggesting they were somehow responsible for their victimization.
Today, women are seizing control of these narratives and transforming them into powerful vehicles for resistance and collective action. Through podcasts, social media and community organizing, women reclaim the true crime genre that once sought to frighten them into submission, using it instead to build networks of solidarity and survival.
Two Sundance documentaries, Speak. and Sugar Babies, explore how Gen Z navigates ambition, identity and economic survival in an uncertain world.
Speak. follows high school debate champions using their voices to advocate for change, while Sugar Babies profiles a young woman leveraging online relationships to fund her education.
Though their paths differ, both films highlight the resilience and resourcefulness of a generation determined to carve out their own futures.
(This is one in a series of film reviews from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, focused on films by women, trans or nonbinary directors that tell compelling stories about the lives of women and girls.)
On Tuesday, House Republicans passed a budget resolution—and it does not bode well for women and their families.
As the Democratic Women’s Caucus reported, the resolution includes more than $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid—which, by the way, covers 40 percent of births that happen in America. The budget also includes significant cuts to SNAP programs that support nutrition for poor families, and helps feed over 13 million American children. We’re already in a care crisis—and Republicans are hell bent on making it worse.
The nonpartisan effort to produce voter guides, Guides.vote, recently released its Wisconsin Supreme Court race guide, providing a cheat sheet leading up to the April 1 election. The high-profile race tasks voters with deciding between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel to fill the open seat on the court.
The election is crucial in determining whether the court retains its 4-3 liberal majority or shifts to conservative control.
The White House issued an executive order last week entitled “Expanding Access To In Vitro Fertilization.” The language it employs, and the sheer folly of what it promises, mark it as a double affront to democracy.
I turned to Rutgers Law Professor Kimberly Mutcherson, expert in bioethics and reproductive health, law and technology, to unpack exactly what is at stake for both reproductive health and democracy. Here are four red flags she raised.
As a community-based researcher, I’ve spent countless hours speaking with women in the Mississippi Delta about their experiences with healthcare, their knowledge of cervical cancer prevention and the barriers they face in accessing care. These conversations have reinforced what we already know: Black women in Mississippi are dying from preventable diseases—not because solutions don’t exist, but because those solutions are not reaching them. The Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative (SRBWI), in collaboration with Human Rights Watch, recently released a report highlighting these inequities.
But while we work to increase awareness, figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continue to spread dangerous misinformation about the HPV vaccine, undermining efforts to protect our communities.
Since taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal government’s role in education. The agency has also begun laying off employees, including in its Office for Civil Rights. At the same time, the Trump administration is attempting to redefine what the federal government considers discrimination in schools and on college campuses.
We’ve compiled these actions below and will update this list as Trump’s second term unfolds.