Our Top Feminist Films, Podcasts, Concerts, Books, and Articles of 2026

August 28, 2026:

Our Top Feminist Films, Podcasts, Concerts, Books, and Articles of 2026

If you’re looking to learn a thing or two about abortion law, Rewire News Group’s legal correspondents have some ideas.

To document the rollback of reproductive rights across the United States, Rewire News Group relies on a roster of fierce, feminist lawyers to track key court cases, explain legalese, and connect the dots between the seemingly disparate lawsuits that actually comprise a coordinated anti-abortion strategy.

Each month, we feature this essential legal analysis in The Fallout newsletter (sign up here). The authors annotate the newsletter with their “feminist footnotes”—sharing the media diet that informs how they think about the country, the news, and the law.

Here’s what RNG’s legal analysts are reading, watching, and listening to this summer.

Where they’re going

Daisy Chain Fields: Don’t miss pop star Olivia Rodrigo’s new all-women charity music festival benefiting reproductive rights and gender equity nonprofits on Aug. 29, 2026 in Irvine, California.

What they’re reading

“The Critical Connection Between Brown v. Board and Voting Rights”: An essay in which former NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill clarifies that to be pro-democracy, one must also be anti-white supremacy.

“Four Years Post-Dobbs“: This June 2026 issue brief from the National Partnership for Women & Families demonstrates how clinic closures and attacks on medication abortion have affected women of color and other marginalized groups since Roe v. Wade fell.

“Beliefs about Women and Women’s Equality in the Gulf South”: This May 2026 study out of Tulane University aims to better “understand beliefs about women and gender equality” in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

What they’re watching

Hollywood Does Abortion, a new documentary about how cinema depicts the care on screen, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this summer. It’s not out yet in wide release, but RNG interviewed the film’s legal advisor.

In July 2026, RNG’s own Imani Gandy joined the Alliance for Justice and Gender Justice for a panel breaking down some of the issues at hand in this term’s Supreme Court rulings—from birthright citizenship and the Voting Rights Act to trans girls in sports. The panelists also dug into what might await us during the Court’s next term.

What they’re listening to

In this August 2026 episode of Strict Scrutiny, host Kate Shaw talks with Farah Diaz-Tello of If/When/How about how criminal law is increasingly used to target abortion and pregnancy loss post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

The April 28, 2026 episode of the Ms. Book Club with Khiara M. Bridges, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law and author of Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans.

“The Propaganda that Threatens the FDA’s Mifepristone Regulations”: The title says it all: This RePRO’S Fight Back podcast episode explains how medication abortion is under attack in the courts and federal agencies.

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