All at Sea: Confronting Exclusion in Ili Bare's 'The Leadership'

Charting the ups and downs of an Antarctic expedition designed to empower women in science, Ili Baré's documentary depicts the battle of wills that emerges between the program's coordinator and participants over the course of the journey. In gesturing towards both the stubborn resilience of glass ceilings and the limitations of non-intersectional feminism, The Leadership shows that the solutions for these problems are far from simple, as Debbie Zhou describes.

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STEMM, fly-on-the-wall documentary, TS Eliot, Fabian Dattner, Homeward Bound, conservation, Antarctica, marine science, intersectionality, meritocracy, TED, sexual harassment