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- Strickler, Susan
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- Profile of activist, survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Setsuko Thurlow.
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- 2020
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- Hardison, Bethann; Tcheng, Frédéric
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- Biography of pioneering model, agent, and fashion entrepreneur Bethann Hardison with a focus on her advocacy for racial diversity in the industry. Includes interviews with Tyson Beckford, Stephen Burrows, Naomi Campbell, Pat Cleveland, Iman, Fran Lebowitz, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Zendaya.
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- 2023
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- Medow, Rivkah Beth; Rainin, Jen
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- Profiles founder Franco Stevens and her lesbian magazine Curve from the early 1990s through the present and examines current intersectional activism by queer women. Includes interviews with Lea DeLaria, Melissa Etheridge, Denice Frohman, Jewelle Gomez, Amber Hikes, Kim Katrin, and Andrea Pino-Silva.
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- 2020
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- Cohn, Erika
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- Profile of Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a sharia court, as she adjudicates cases covering domestic and family law in Palestine.
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- 2018
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- Ehrhardt, Bettina; Möhlmann, Elisabeth
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- Profile of 84-year-old shaman Mama Irene (Juana Irene Contreras Pumayalli), who continues to practice Incan healing methods in Peru despite a lifetime of abuse and hostility from male shamans.
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- 2022
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- Ophelian, Annalise
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- Profile of transgender activist Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated sex worker who advocates for transgender women of color, those living with HIV/AIDS, and imprisoned transgender people.
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- 2016
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- Pardo, Davina; Wolchok, Leah
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- Biography of author Judy Blume—best known for her frank young adult novels including Blubber, Forever, Superfudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret—with a discussion of censorship of her books throughout her career. Includes readings from her works and interviews with admirers including Samantha Bee, Lena Dunham, Tayari Jones, Molly Ringwald, and Jacqueline Woodson.
- Year
- 2023
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- Brewster, Joe; Stephenson, Michèle
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- Profile of the African American poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, a founder of the Black Arts Movement. Includes readings of poems by Giovanni and actor Taraji P. Henson.
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- 2023
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- Navasky, Miri; O'Boyle, Maeve; O'Connor, Karen
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- Biography of activist and folk singer Joan Baez based on diaries, home movies, extensive interviews, and recordings. Includes footage of her farewell concert tour.
- Year
- 2023
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- Terranova, Fabrizio
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- Imaginative profile of feminist theorist Donna Haraway, who discusses topics ranging from capitalism to sexuality to dogs to the suppression of women's writing.
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- 2019
