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American Woman
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Homegoing
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and South Asia.
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Beloved
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and power.
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L.A. Woman
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Lemonade
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Transparent
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Enlightened
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Americanah
2010s
A Nigerian woman in America blogs about race. Immigration, identity, and return.
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L.A. Woman
1970s
L.A. Woman is a 1971 album associated with The Doors and Elektra. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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The Watermelon Woman
1990s
The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye. The first feature film directed by a Black lesbian, it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young Black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a Black actress from...
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Transparent
2010s
Transparent is an American comedy-drama television series created by Joey Soloway for Amazon Studios that debuted on February 6, 2014. The story revolves around a Los Angeles family, the Pfeffermans, and their lives after learning that their parent is a trans woman now going by the name Maura. Transparent's first se...
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Beloved
A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by her dead daughter. Memory, trauma, and the weight of history.
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Music 2010s
Lemonade
Visual album as political statement. Infidelity, Black womanhood, and transformation.
Film 2010s
Certain Women
Certain Women is a 2016 American drama film edited, written, and directed by Kelly Reichardt. Based on "Native Sandstone", "Travis, B." and "Tome"—three short stories from Maile Meloy's collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It—it stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Glad...
Television 2010s
Enlightened
Enlightened is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on October 10, 2011. The series was created by Mike White, who wrote every episode, and Laura Dern. As signaled by its tagline "About a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough", Enlightened follows the story of Amy Jellicoe (Dern),...
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Books 1980s
The Handmaid's Tale
A woman enslaved as a reproductive vessel in a theocratic America. Dystopia as feminist nightmare.
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Music 2010s
A Seat at the Table
Black womanhood, anger, and healing. R&B as political and personal manifesto.