#the feminist press

[thebookishwallflower]

“With war on our tounges and death in our eyes, we ride for the forest.” - The Sapling Cage, Margret Killjoy

[thegirlwiththelantern]

More 2024 YA Fantasy Books

Our last foray into 2024 YA. Unfortunately not all of the books I’d planned to include feature here have been as some are published under the SMP umbrella. I am aware that the Readers for Accountability page has all but been deleted. However with no better source for how that’s going I’ve chosen to abide by it for the remainder of this year. Most of this selection were made with that in mind…

[anomalys-bane]

blackpill 'feminism' is fucking crazy

like i get losing hope. i get feeling like nothing's going to truly change and i get feeling the constant weight of the knowledge that patriarchy naturally evolved and despairing over the fact that demonic males will always in some ways have the upper hand, and that there may be biological bases for behavior.

but this? what the fuck are you doing? biology won't mean shit if we as a society work to resocialize human beings, and it may genuinely have a chance of working because human beings are intelligent, social beings. we could make a new path for evolution. its genuinely stupid to not think socialization as a factor in male and female behavior. even if socialization is like 5% of the reason, we have to work to stamp out that 5%, and figure things out from there. if anyone is serious about the liberation of women even from a personal, self-oriented standpoint, like your own liberation, that is what we have to work towards.

even if in the grand scheme of things change wasn't possible, even if it was futile to try and even if our struggle was nothing but a short, fiery burst of a rebellion in history, i can die easy knowing that i believed, and i tried, and many of my sisters believed and tried to reclaim our humanity.

[radfemkiranerys]

I said yes, and also arrived prepared with a ring for her!

[shegottosayit]

Andrew Scott at the National Board Of Review 2024 Awards Gala

[blumenherzen]

Just found out Right Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin will be published for the first time in Italian translation and that it will come out in October (link)! The publishing is by VandA editions, a press (founded in 2013) dedicated to "radical themes in feminism" (as it says on the site). They also curated a new edition of "The Lesbian Body" by Monique Wittig (out of print since the seventies). For all the gyns interested!

[roseshavethoughts]

Suffragette (2015)

My ★★★ review of Suffragette #MovieMonday #film)

Suffragette (2015) Synopsis – In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanised into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote and will meet violence with violence to achieve this end. Director – Sarah Gavron Starring – Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Natalie Press Genre – Drama | Historical Released – 2015 ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. It feels…

[wrongpublishing]

BOOK REVIEW: Cosmic Horror Monthly's Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction 

by Elizabeth Broadbent, Staff Writer.

I stan Bertha. 

You will too once you read Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction (Cosmic Horror Monthly). Rage-made art, editor Joolie Toomajan’s anthology howls into the dark night of oppression; its fury-crafted stories push back against the true horrors of our marginalization. Come for the politics—all proceeds go to fund abortion rights in America—but stay for some of the year’s best stories, which shine against the tarnish of injustice.

There’s spec fic here for everyone: literary retellings, a redone fairy tale, sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism, ghost stories, serial killers. Fury seethes through them: fury at abandonment, fury at erasure, but (justly) often fury at objectification. We are baby-carriers, walking wombs. Our sexuality is villainous. We endanger the patriarchy by refusing to die, a la Mrs. Rochester in Laura Blackwell’s “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word.” 

I finished the first two stories in this anthology (Jennifer Lee Fleck’s brutal “The Girls of Channel 9” and Joe Koch’s “By Their Bones You Shall Know Them”, which reminded me of Brian Bilston’s “America is a Gun”) and had to walk away. “This is one of the best anthologies I’ve read all year,” I told my husband as I took a breather. “I’ve only read two of them and holy shit, this is good stuff.”

You knew, of course, that Haley Piper’s would be a standout. You didn’t know how much of a standout. I might’ve cried while reading “The Girls with Claws that Catch”—bonus points if you can ID the reference. William Faulker wished he’d written Moby Dick; I’d’ve given a lesser toe to pen this one. 

I might’ve cried while reading a lot of these. 

Remember the tears you shed when you heard about Roe? Here they all, wrapped up into speculative fic. 

I could wade through every story and rave about its uniqueness, its bravery, its place in the Golden Age of Indie Horror (then thank the God of Horror Writers—nomination for Black Tezcatlipoca, Aztec god of nighttime and darkness—that I’m lucky enough to review right now). I’ll spare you, expect to say that someone other than Joolie Toomajan’s winning a Stoker for this, and I’m not sure who.

Special shoutout Laura Cranehill: Nectarine, Apple, Pear is her first published short story—and she wrote it in the midst of parenting three small kids. Laura, we best see more of your work soon. 

Buy Aseptic now; don’t wait for StokerCon. Like Ai Jiang’s Lingham, this book’s gonna sell out. 

Watch the launch party hosted by P. L. McMillan and Chelsea Pumpkins—you deserve these stellar readings in your life.

Cosmic Horror Monthly Twitter: @ CosmicHorrorMo Instagram: @ cosmic.horror.monthly

[mbharestuff]

Three days until Freda Epums's momentous, emotionally searing "The Gloomy Girl Variety Show" releases. I cannot begin to convey my excitement. It's going to knock people off their feet.

I've been watching her improve her craft for years, polishing each piece to a sunlike sheen. It's been magical to watch, I can't wait till you all can see it for yourselves.

[iwatcheditbegin]

Also the press strategy for promoting the film was sinister.

[anthonyopal]

ST iv & LT v

Julian of Norwich (1343–1416) was the first woman to publish in English. Her writings - Revelations of Divine Love - survive in two versions: the Short Text (ST) and the Long Text (LT).

Printed here are two accounts of the same revelation - or shewyng - “ST iv” and “LT v.” Folios are marked according to the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale manuscripts, respectively.

The text appears in Middle English, unaltered, as originally written by Julian of Norwich.

Author: Julian of Norwich

Editor: Anthony Opal

Booklet, 24 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: Middle English

ISBN: 978-1-7375909-7-2

Published: February 7, 2023

[riotgrrrlpress]

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Ashley is ready to kick your ass in the pit -- get the #MoreChicksInThePit shirt! It's available in yellow,black or white. Sizes S-5X. (Link in my bio)

#DIY #screenprinting #riotgrrrlpress #riotgrrrl #girlstothefront #caughtinamosh #punkrockfeminism

[elainemorisi]

Joanna Russ is so fucking funny

[antellas]

Convivial Design Studio participated in creating audio / video assets for the open access online version of "Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press" by Jocelyn Cohen and Julia Allen. Included in this 2024 Sinister Wisdom Salon recording is the book trailer.

Julia Allen and Jocelyn Cohen’s book, "Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press" (2023), is the first book to demonstrate the relationships between the feminist art movement, the women in print movement, and the scholars studying women’s history.  It is available from Lever Press, which is funded by a consortium of small liberal arts colleges, and dedicated to the principle of open access, but also offers print editions of their books.  Read it and see many archived images here.

[ladysophiebeckett]

#this whole mess shows blake lively was not 'largely beloved'#i've seen a lot of people in the pr field talking about how this is tanking the rep of the field#and it is but#the thing is...his pr people were (evil) geniuses (again)#they used a playbook they knew worked on someone who already had an iffy online reputation#(i say that as someone who dips in and out of some of the bitchiest gossip forums online - blake was not liked before all of this)#they couldn't go after blake with a straight attack because of her connections#but they were paying attention to online chatter and gossip and just fed and shaped it#she was planting stories about him in people during the press tour that directly went for his reputation as a 'male feminist'#('male feminist' should have been the first red flag guys!)#but it didn't stick#lively is suing because she was losing the pr battle#and is using the lawsuit for her own pr purposes#this is going to be studied in comms classes for years to come#because it also shows where her team fucked up during the initial press run#and what pisses me off about this is that the sexual harassment complaint is getting lost in all of this#THAT is what people should be focusing on#blake lively#justin baldoni (via @weatherall )

The Justin Baldoni stuff is insane bc Blake was a super famous and largely beloved actress married to one of the most famous men in the world and this C list dipshit actor mostly known for his work as a love interest on a fucking CW show was able to completely tank her reputation

[rosemariecawkwell]

TBR Pile Review: Gender Heretics - Evangelicals, Feminists and the Alliance Against Trans Liberation, by Rebecca Jane Morgan

Format: 208 pages, PaperbackPublished: September 20, 2023 by Pluto PressISBN:9780745349015 (ISBN10: 0745349013) Blurb For decades, conservative evangelicals and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) have worked hand-in-hand to oppose trans liberation. But how did this alliance come about? What makes it tick? And how can trans people and allies respond? This book, written by a…