Films for the Feminist Classroom (FFC) is hosted by the Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Texas Woman’s University. FFC, an online, open-access journal, publishes film reviews that explore the value of films as pedagogical tools in the feminist classroom. Special features, such as interviews with filmmakers, reviews of film festivals, and discussions about pedagogy, further promote and support our aims to be a resource for educators, librarians, and others in educational spaces. We also hope to enhance feminist curricula, bringing films and other video media into classrooms through thought-provoking, relevant, and dynamic content. Formerly, the Rutgers-based editorial offices of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and Women’s and Gender Studies Department hosted this journal.

Issue 13.2

We are thrilled to announce the publication of issue 13.2 of Films for the Feminist Classroom!

This issue continues our commitment to bringing wide-ranging coverage of issues and topics, along with deeper dives that focus on a narrower dimension of pedagogy and society. In 13.2, the special feature considers both the politics of representation and the content of what we teach. Editorial Assistant Katie Jordan led our work on the forum “Indigenous Voices in Film and Video,” which invited educators to share their experiences integrating media by and about Indigenous lives and communities into their classrooms. Contributors deepen our understanding of the creative, political, communal, spiritual, and ecological richness of Indigenous peoples and cultures through an expansive global scope. From essays on a single assignment or activity to full course explorations to film reviews, this special feature opens many pathways to foregrounding Native voices in our teaching.

Reviews in issue 13.2 bring together contemporary and historical perspectives about topics that have been permeating the news but that center the voices of people in communities most disenfranchised by these issues. Immigration and the politics of women’s bodies and health are the focus of some contributions, highlighting facets of choice and agency. Sexuality and identity come to the fore in a review about anti-LGBTQ+ values within institutionalized religion while sexual abuse within religious communities is explored in another. We also learn about the sociopolitical contexts of anti-Black racism in the United States. Films, however, tells not just stories of violence but also of resistance. Thus, reviews about young people challenging book bans, lesbian lives and solidarities, and Palestinian liberation, respectively, offer important reminders of the ways we have thrived—and still do—amid adversity.

Issue 13.2 includes the following films—and more: Abortion and Women's Rights 1970; Banned Together; Split at the Root; Old Lesbians; Lesvia; Two Blue Lines; The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause; Stamped from the Beginning; For Our Daughters; and Love the Sinner.