The Feminist Press

09/24/2024

Happy publication day to Margaret Killjoy’s THE SAPLING CAGE 💀 ⚔️ 🔮 ✨ In this gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in a powerful story of trans witchcraft. Now available wherever you get your books!

“Whimsical and infused with q***r representation… this is an exploration of relationships of all kinds and the belonging one can find in sisterhood.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Engaging… [Killjoy] builds an intriguing and multifaceted world.” —Booklist

“The book’s complex characterizations and in-depth worldbuilding are distinguishing… [Lorel] learns about the many types of power, including friendship, in her quest for discovery and acceptance.” —Foreword Reviews, starred review

“Killjoy gender-bends an old-fashioned fantasy of witches, knights, and brigands in first book of her Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy.” —Publishers Weekly

“This book is a delight for anyone with a love of magical stories and high fantasy, from young adults onward.” —Independent Book Review, starred review

06/17/2024

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12/18/2023

The San Diego library is fighting back against the censorship of book bans

The battle for reading continues.

12/16/2023

Read this essay, then go outside with some friends!

In the summer darkness of the Massachusetts Berkshires, my friends and I build a fire. These are not just any friends—they’re dear friends from high school, friends I rarely see anymore because of …

12/15/2023

In case you're still shopping for holiday gifts

Hip-hop history, real-world wishes and the forgotten watercolourist in Turner’s shadow are among the subjects of this year’s finest comics

12/15/2023

"The world of learning has become a battleground between the opposed forces of democratization and commercialization." - Robert Darnton for The New York Review

In 1991 the World Wide Web seemed to provide a path to a dazzling future: everyone in the world would be able to communicate, at a minimal cost, with

12/13/2023

More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

Despite its ubiquity, there’s more to eyeliner than meets the eye. This seldom-examined object frames the eyes of women on the New York City subway and nomads in the savannahs of Chad. Instagram in…

12/12/2023

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Atlanta-based Paste magazine has purchased the site.

12/11/2023

Thanks to Damion Searls for shouting out HAPPY STORIES, MOSTLY (available here: https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/happy-stories-mostly)

As a translator, I write books I’ve also read, so in a way you’d have to say that the books at the center of my year in reading were the...

12/10/2023

So excited for this!

The limited series on the Russian feminist collective will be based on the forthcoming memoir by founder Nadya Tolokonnikova

12/09/2023

Verna in The Fall of the House of Usher >>>>>

Q***r teens, a zombie killer, and one very disturbed set of twins. Check out our favorite q***r TV characters of 2023!

12/08/2023

Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

Holiday shopping for all of your family and friends is never easy, but the ideologically committed can present unique challenges. If you need to buy a gift for a would-be smasher of patriarchy, whi…

12/08/2023

A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories
https://lithub.com/a-vicious-cycle-jessica-strawser-on-telling-and-re-telling-traumatic-stories/

“It’s inspired by all the ways I’ve seen firsthand that strangers can embrace one another as sisters, laughing and crying like old friends over nothing more than a shared experience with a story—even if it’s fiction. Especially if it’s fiction—because sometimes, when we hand that book to a friend, it becomes the springboard for discussing our own truths. The cycle continues: And isn’t it refreshing, really, that not all tough-to-break cycles are bad?”

Jane Smiley recently said, “Reading novels is a form of emotional education.” If that’s true, then writing novels must be a form of emotional exploration—into all the reasons a theme won’t let us g…

12/06/2023

DIVE INTO THESE 11 PALESTINIAN FICTION RECOMMENDATIONS

These books about q***rness, displacement, loss, and violence are must-read, rich novels and short story collections.

12/06/2023

Discover 50 memoirs, 35 essay collections, and 25 other works of nonfiction published in 2023 by CLMP member presses—and browse our other reading lists for 750+ indie lit ideas for your TBR or gift lists! https://www.clmp.org/news/nonfiction-of-2023/

12/06/2023

Looking for your next favorite book? Discover 145 novels, 60 short story collections, 11 fiction anthologies, 9 novellas, and more fiction published by indie presses this year. https://www.clmp.org/news/fiction-of-2023/

12/05/2023

The 2023 Award-Winning Books in Fiction

Find your next great read among the rants and raves of authors, critics, friends, strangers and culture-makers alike.

12/05/2023

Who was Pat Parker?

Most feminists know of Audre Lorde, but one of her closest friends is often lost between the lines of history: Pat Parker.

12/04/2023

"Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future"

Author: Alice Cappelle
Publisher ‏ : ‎Repeater

Analysing a wide range of online communities and subcultures, Alice Capelle shows how an unprecedented backlash against women is being orchestrated online.

Covering everything from the reactionary politics of the "manosphere" to hookup culture, traditional feminity, the politics of sexual liberation and liberal-friendly lifestyle content, Collapse Feminism shows how the future of feminism is being determined in these online spaces, and what this means for women in the twenty-first century.

As conservative and anti-feminist political groups grow in power and popularity online and in the real world, it is urgent that we collectively reject political ideas that harm people of all genders, and instead work to create a freer, fairer and more creative future for all.

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"Q***r Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures, 1992–2001"
Author: CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Feminist Press at CUNY

An essential text documenting the foundation and rise of q***r theory.

The David R. Kessler Lectures, established in 1992 by CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY, represent the cutting edge of q***r studies in the United States. Years before LGBTQ studies had found a foothold in American academia, the Kessler Lectures celebrated dynamic and diverse inquiries into q***r thought, community, and politics.

Twenty years after its initial publication, Q***r Ideas collects the first ten historic Kessler Lectures by influential scholars, writers, and activists and with a new foreword. Alongside the second volume,, this revised edition of Q***r Ideas traces the early foundations of the field and provides a new opportunity to revisit an essential collection of q***r and trans thought.

12/04/2023

Gift Guide: 15 Gifts from Latina-owned Brands for Under $15

From makeup to home decor, here are 15 gift ideas under $!5 featuring Latina-owned brands including Rizos Curls, JZD, and Vive Cosmetics.

12/03/2023

The Sad Girl vs. The Mad Girl Poets: The Sad Girl’s Savior Complex and the Legacy of the “Suicide Girl Poet”

“Women are told they're not valuable unless they're broken down into bite-size chunks; this requires a necessary negation of self to accomplish.”

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of ‘parties’ with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they a...

12/03/2023

2023 Small Press Literary Gift Guide

In my family, we have a rule that once you’ve done something three years in a row, it becomes tradition. This year marks three years of organizing the annual Write or Die Small Press Literary Gift Guide. So, it’s officially tradition. I started this list because I am not a huge fan of the holida...

12/02/2023

6 Must-Watch Indigenous Movies From Latin America

In the last few decades, Indigenous people from across Latin America have used movies and TV as mediums to deconstruct racist stereotypes and tell their own stories, on their own terms.

12/01/2023

Craft Essay: “Allow Me To Speak My Palestinian Tongue” by Noor Shami

"Poetry is an olive tree — wisdom, fertility, prosperity — following life then death and everything in between."

11/30/2023

The most popular books New Yorkers are reading now, according to 9 indie booksellers

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/the-most-popular-books-new-yorkers-are-reading-now-according-to-9-indie-booksellers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=shared_facebook&fbclid=IwAR3oIncS-yuU2woROwPdidAzW6mbgbBB7PJ-CLE-MRticgOk6tIAQz6MmIw_aem_AXTlnjqr2WLJntLbavErdzypySBibzPxAVTJDF_cerpNqi10dgScPrPzU2lsK-x4rwE&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

In New York City, reading lists are as diverse as the city itself. Here’s what New Yorkers are buying.