Themed Playlist: Filming Abortion
From Maria San Filippo, a tie-in to her recent Flow column “Maude & Me; Or, Responsibilities of a Feminist Media Critic,” this list features films that represent abortion in resonant, hopefully mind-changing ways.
United States
Themed Playlist: She’s Come Undone: Apocalypses, Big and Small
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson offers a list of apocalypses written on and through the bodies of girls and women.
Themed Playlist: Multimedia Journalism and COVID-19
Allison Frisch offers a list of multimedia journalism, which allows for an expansive and people-centred perspective on living with the pandemic.
Themed Playlist: Black Lives in Philadelphia
Jeff Schreible (KCL),a Philadelphian in London, reflects on representations of Black lives in this diverse city– lives often erased from mainstream representations of the city, but clearly visible and vibrant in the list he offers.
Themed Playlist: Race and Policing in the U.S. (Documentaries)
Kristen Fuhs (Woodbury University) provides a list of documentaries that one can watch to gain a better understanding of the intersection of race, policing, and miscarriages of justice in the U.S.
Themed Playlist: Traces of Violence
What does it mean to live with violence? This is not violence as exceptional event, but violence as an ongoing presence felt across place, community, and generations? These films explore persistent legacies of violence, demanding a reframing the perspective that the demonstrations are the problematic violence.