Books, documentaries, podcasts, musicians, and media to fire you up to fight for gender justice
This Women’s History Month, Oxfam is honoring the women who have led us, inspired us, and worked hard for us. As part of this celebration, we are sharing the artists who push us to be gender justice champions.
Books
Bad Feminist, by Roxanne Gay
Feminism is for Everybody, by bell hooks
Hood Feminism, by Mikki Kendall
Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
No Time to Mourn: An Anthology by South Sudanese Women, edited by Hilda J. Twongyeirwe and Elizabeth Ashamu Deng
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, by Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey
Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back, Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad
Women, Race, & Class, by Angela Davis
Documentaries
Aka Jane Roe (Hulu)
American Revolutionary (americanrevolutionaryfilm.com)
Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (Netflix)
Girl Rising (Amazon Prime)
Gloria: In Her Own Words (HBO)
He Named Me Malala (Amazon Prime)
Knock Down the House (Netflix)
Period. End of Sentence. (Netflix)
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (Amazon Prime)
Sisters Rising (sistersrisingmovie.com)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (PBS)
Podcasts
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
Call Your Girlfriend
Feminist Frequency Radio
The Guilty Feminist
Hey, girl
Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw
Lady Don’t Take No with Alicia Garza
Stuff Mom Never Told You
Unladylike
The Women Rule Podcast
TV Shows and Movies
9 to 5 (Hulu)
Broad City (Hulu)
Fleabag (Amazon Prime)
La Llorona (Shudder.com)
Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)
I May Destroy You (HBO)
Insecure (HBO)
Mrs. America (Hulu)
Tuca & Bertie (Netflix)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Musicians: Albums and Songs
Alicia Keys – Alicia
Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams
Beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers
Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
Lous and the Yakuza - Gore
Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started
Priya Ragu - “Chicken Lemon Rice”
Raye Zaragoza – Woman In Color
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – Temple
Vagabon & Courtney Barnett - “Reason to Believe”
Listen to these artists and more on Oxfam's Feminist Jams Spotify playlist