Today is March 8th, making it International Women’s Day! We reckon there’s no better day than today to absorb everything and anything rad made by women, which is why we decided to list some of our picks for celebrating IWD. Have a read down below!

SHANNON JENKINS, EDITOR
The First Wives Club – I adore stories about women of a certain age finding their power, and 1996 comedy The First Wives Club is the best of the bunch. Starring Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and their respective white pantsuits, this iconic film has been one of my favourites since childhood (although I definitely shouldn’t have been watching it back then). I always pop it on when I need a pick-me-up or a good girly night to myself.

ELLE – I just love magazines (especially Aussie magazines!), so I’m keen to get my hands on a copy of ELLE Australia’s first new issue since it relaunched this week. Grace O’Neill – who is the co-host of one of my favourite pods, After Work Drinks – is the new editor of ELLE. I can’t wait to see what she has in store.

IRIS MCPHERSON, MARKETING COORDINATOR
This IWD, I’ll be listening to one of my favourite singers, SZA. Her dreamy new single has been stuck in a loop on my Spotify and rightfully so. In true SZA fashion, she wraps this honest, despondent, somewhat self-deprecating song with her ethereal voice. In “Saturn”, she keeps it real by singing about her inner turmoil (don’t we all?), but does so in a way that makes me feel like everything will be okay.

ELEANOR BURNARD, ASSISTANT AND DIGITAL EDITOR
Women, Race & Class – Did you know that the history of IWD stemmed from labour uprisings organised by female textile workers in the late 1800s? Much of the major feminist movements also came from the minds and hard work of working women from all different backgrounds, which I found out by reading Women, Race & Class written by one of my favourite authors of all time – Angela Y. Davis. Angela’s work on the intersection of gender inequality, racism and the class divide explains so much about how different forms of discrimination bleed into each other, and how it has affected life even up to this day.

I’ve also been in a huge house and techno kick lately (most likely spurned on by listening to nothing but Beyoncé’s Renaissance in the past year) which is why I’ll be blasting of one my all-time favourite albums of all time: Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. I’ve been a Gaga stan for as long as I can remember, and these tunes still hold up incredibly well. Also, can you imagine if Bey and Gaga teamed up again? I’m still holding out hope for “Telephone Part 2.”

EMILY NAISMITH, BRANDED CONTENT DIRECTOR
As a teen, I lapped up every ‘coming of age’ style movie and studied it to learn how to act like a ‘normal’ young person (mixed results there). Thrilled for the students of today who get to study Emma Seligman’s Bottoms where Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri play two queer students who start a fight club to get closer to the cheerleaders they’re crushing on. It’s a truly wild ride with an epic final fight scene that is perfectly appropriate for IWD.

I recently started making my own pasta from scratch which has improved my life by approximately 300 per cent and I only have Jaclyn Crupi’s book Pasta Love to thank. It lovingly and carefully takes you through the step-by-step process of what to do, while interspersing the instructions with stories of the sweetest nonnas in the world and their own personal pasta-making quirks and stories. It’s super wholesome and results in bowl after bowl of obscenely delicious fettuccine, which is going to be hard for the next book I read to compete with.

CLAIRE MULLINS, PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER
I’ll be delving into the latest copy of frankie magazine! Put together by a bunch of super-talented women, we celebrate everyday women from all walks of life for being strong role models for women. Among the pastel-hued pages, Angie Mashford-Scott’s article about why endometriosis is a feminist issue is a must-read.  Shameless self-promotion? Absolutely!  But go pick up a copy – you’ll thank me for it!

Then it’s time to hit the couch and watch the last two episodes of Double Parked. This is a cracker of a series – just seven short episodes – about lesbian couple Nat and Steph who are left dumbfounded when a "disappointing" trip to the IVF clinic and a "botched" home insemination job leaves both women pregnant. It’s warm, funny, and totally crazy. It's one of those shows where you feel like you're hanging out with your mates and forget you're watching people act. It’s perfect IWD viewing.