The 15 best Netflix original movies and series of 2021 (so far) mashable.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mashable.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Moxie: A whitewashed account of second-wave feminism
Design: Sarah Anjum Bari Rasha Jameel Rasha Jameel
I ve lost count of the number of people who have recommended Jennifer Mathieu s best-selling book
Moxie (Roaring Brook Press, 2017) to me. All I ever saw about the book were torrents of positive reviews on social media, one following another.
I was caught in the waves of this excitement, and my expectations for the book were sky-high.
Moxie soon rose up the ranks until it topped my personal to-be-read list for over a year. It was when I got wind of a then-upcoming Netflix adaptation that I couldn t waste any more time, and I went and bought myself a paperback copy.
Thu Mar 11, 2021 at 5:23pm ET
Hadley Robinson as Vivian and Nico Hiraga as Seth in Moxie. Pic credit: Netflix
Amy Poehler’s latest project for Netflix was the coming-of-age feminist rager Moxie. The movie follows high school junior Vivian (Hadley Robinson) while she anonymously publishes a zine that calls out the discriminatory and harmful actions of her school.
The zine quickly gains popularity and the girls of the school form a Moxie club where they act out in defiance against the patriarchal behaviors of their school’s authority.
Who wrote Moxie?
The movie Moxie, while directed by Amy Poehler, was based on a novel by the young adult author Jennifer Mathieu. However, it was adapted into a screenplay by Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer.