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The American Worker Gets the Spotlight at the Tribeca Film Fest
Established in response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Tribeca Film Festival has, since…
Dana Frank Offers Lessons from Latin America in ‘Long Honduran Night’
Indypendent readers most likely know Honduras as the site of a right-wing coup in 2009 and as one of…
Labor Conflict: With ‘Birth Strike’ Jenny Brown Tackles the Population Decline
It took more than a decade of litigation by feminist plaintiffs for Plan B, known as the “morning-after pill,”…
When Women Take on Mass Incarceration
If you feel fed-up with criminal justice reform efforts touted by the Koch brothers that leave our prison industrial…
After the Christchurch Massacre: Reexamining the Roots of Terror
Under the exploding Twin Towers, you see her face. In early March Republicans displayed a poster in the West…
Lessons from ‘The Brink’ With Steve Bannon
Over the course of Alison Klayman’s new biopic The Brink, Steve Bannon utters a number of chilling lines, but…
Frida Kahlo: Communist, Feminist, Global Commodity
A look at a new retrospective of the Mexican artist’s work at the Brooklyn Museum.
There Are a Deluge of Feminist Films Screening in NYC This Month
Not one woman was nominated for Best Director in the 2019 Academy Awards. But this month many festivals in…