‘Baby/Girls’ Review: Doc Paints a Bleak but Judgment-Free Portrait of Teenage Motherhood in Contemporary Arkansas

Premiering at SXSW, the documentary from directors Alyse Walsh and Jackie Jesko profiles several young mothers who spend time at a charitable Christian group home.

In ‘Scarlet Girls,’ a Debut Feature Director Tackles the Fact That Abortion Is Still “Completely Criminalized” in the Dominican Republic

Paula Cury discusses taking “the hard route” for her first feature film, premiering at Copenhagen doc fest CPH:DOX, finding ...
BBC

Before You Were Mine

The poem is a tribute to Duffy’s mother, imagining her life before becoming a parent. It reflects on how motherhood changed her and how Duffy admires the person her mother used to be. The text of this ...

Q&A: Activists, ‘sister-friends’ Gloria Steinem and Leymah Gbowee channel their bond into a new book

They call themselves “sister-friends.” Now, two celebrated women’s rights activists from different parts of the globe, Gloria ...
The Liberum

Silent Hill and the ethics of desire

As I recently passed through my ‘barrio’ – to be pronounced in Spanish as ‘wario’ – the miscellaneous nature of the ...

“Frankenstein” needed a woman’s touch

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" is deeply flawed — and more exciting than any recent take on Mary Shelley's work ...