the best of all about women in video
Our selection of talks, panels and debates from across the years
Shrill: Lindy West - 2017
What happens to a loud woman with big opinions in a culture where women are expected to be small, quiet and compliant? Lindy West, a writer and commentator known for her strong but humorous opinions, explores just what it means to live as a loud woman.
Watch this if you’re going to: Women in the age of Trump
nasty women panel - 2017
Frightbat, Hyterical, Nasty. Take your pick, these are all labels that are used to put women in their place. Why is it that women with opinions and aspirations to power bring out the worst in our culture? Yasmin Abdel-Magied, Van Badham and Lindy west what happens when women stop being afraid and a term like “nasty woman” becomes a badge of honour.
Watch this if you’re going to: Smashing the patriarchy
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl: Carrie Brownstein - 2016
Music makes a movement. Feminist punk rock icon Carrie Brownstein talks how punk music helped her find her voice in the iconic Riot Grrl movement.
Watch this if you’re going to: Block party
The happy feminist: Mallory Ortberg - 2016
The stereotype for feminists is that they are sad people that are angry at the world. But what if you can be an upbeat, happy feminist? Mallory Ortberg is just that, and she’s here to share with you just how she does it.
Watch this if you’re going to: Ladies, we need to talk, The guilty feminist
Not a Feminist: Jessa Crispin - 2017
Jessa Crispin will not call herself a feminist. Why? Because she thinks contemporary feminism has grown so tame, cowardly and irrelevant that it is barely making changes to the status quo. This is a call to arms for us to move beyond pleasing everyone and getting everyone on our side, and to start moving to make actual change.
Watch this if you’re going to: #metoo
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