Highlights from the 2018 Athena Film Festival

People filled New York’s Barnard College’s basement theater to its seams this weekend, attending films and events celebrating female activists and filmmakers. With special events featuring speakers like Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King and former prime minister of New Zealand…

Preview: The 8th Annual Athena Film Festival

Now more than ever, we’re seeing more minorities in fields that were once inaccessible– save for a select few who broke barriers. With politics, sports, education and more all changing, it only seems natural that the filmmaking industry is among…

Our Shared Shelf January book review “My Life on the Road”

On January 6, British actor and United Nations Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson tweeted that she’d been brainstorming names for a feminist book club, calling to action her nearly 21 million Twitter followers to pitch their ideas. Just a day…