#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…

[shegottosayit]

Andrew Scott at the National Board Of Review 2024 Awards Gala

[uwmspeccoll]

International Women's Day

In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8), we’re showcasing one of writer, educator, intersectional feminist, poet, civil rights activist, and former New York public school librarian Audre Lorde’s (1934–1992) early collections of poetry. From a Land Where Other People Live was published in 1973 by Detroit’s groundbreaking Broadside Press. This independent press was founded in 1965 by poet, University of Detroit librarian, and Detroit’s first poet laureate Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with the mission to publish the leading African American poetry of the time in a well-designed format that was also "accessible to the widest possible audience." A comprehensive catalog of Broadside Press’s impressive roster of artists (including Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Alice Walker, to name a few), titled Broadside Authors and Artists: An Illustrated Biographical Directory, was published in 1974 by educator and fellow University of Detroit librarian Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey (1906-1983).  

Lorde described herself in an interview with Callaloo Literary Journal in 1990 as “a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, warrior, poet, mother doing [her] work”. She dedicated her life to “confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.” From a Land Where Other People Live is a powerfully intimate expression of her personal struggles with identity and her deeply rooted critiques of social injustice. The work was nominated for the National Book Award for poetry in 1974, the same year that Broadside Press published New York Head Shop and Museum, another volume of Lorde’s poetry featured in our collection. You can find more information on her writings and on the organization inspired by her life and work by visiting The Audre Lorde Project.     

More posts on Broadside Press publications  

More Women’s History Month posts  

More International Women’s Day posts  

-- Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker 

[riotgrrrlpress]

Please contribute to the next 2 issues of SlutCake Zine! # 19 has NO THEME. Send ANYTHING! Essays,art,comics,photography, poetry, interviews, reviews-anything goes!

# 20 is an interview issue. If you want to be interviewed or want to interview someone, please email me! Please submit to one or both of these zines!!! Thanks! ♥️

MrsNoggle@Yahoo.Com

[uter-us]

radfem or any woman poll:

is there a specific age that you think pressure to wear makeup was at its highest? like do you think there's more pressure as you get older or more pressure when you're young?

(you can use ur best judgement to decide if you're qualified to answer-- in my experience most radfems on here are under 30 so we all only have so much life experience🤷‍♀️)

context (readings not necessary to vote): I'm 17 and so I'm highschool-aged although I've dropped out, but I still hang around highschool and college aged people and I genuinly cant imagine more pressure to wear makeup than right now. maybe it's j being a teenager ? or like idk hormones too?? but it feels indescribable and I've talked to my friends (and mom, see below) abt this and my friends also feel that sooooo much. which is maybe super self absorbed to think im at the age where its the worst so i could deffffinitely be way off. but do u think theres any relief as you get older? I talked to my mom about it and she does wear makeup, but she said something abt how it's nice to just be a "random non descript middle aged woman," and how that's kind of affected her own self image (in a good way). like she still feels the pressure to be beautiful, but maybe less so ? just curious what yall think!!

thanks yall.

[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…

[glitterpuff]

I am so honored and excited to have been included in It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. Check out my essay, "Indescribable," in which I draw from my personal experience, as well as The Blob (1988) and Society (1989), to talk about gender and embodiment in relation to the figure of the blob monster.

[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

[vc-blackhouse]

We're a tiny independent publishing house for inclusive feminist fantasy & speculative writing, run by editors across the United States. You might know us from our successful crowdfunding campaigns for Bewildered and the Cup & Dagger series. We're publishing our second series of mini-chapbooks: the New Cosmologies series. Across these eleven mini-chapbooks, you’ll read reinterpretations and retellings, original cosmologies and personal mythologies, prose and poetry, beginnings of universes and ends of worlds.

[iwatcheditbegin]

Also the press strategy for promoting the film was sinister.

[uwmspeccoll]

It's Feral Friday!

If Special Collections were compared to a National Park- a thoughtfully curated, accessible experience of the wilderness of the natural world- where would its edges lie? What would be considered off the beaten path, how would its boundaries be defined, and in what ways would the landscape beyond those boundaries inspire our imagination and broaden our conceptions of the world and our communicative capacities?

That’s the realm of pluralistic inquiry explored by Feral Fridays, a new weekly post where we’ll feature items from our collection like zines, experimental book arts, independently produced poetry and other unruly materials that exist at the margins of publishing and literary traditions.

Let’s get Feral!   

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

Images:

That Way Issue 1, Spring 2021

That Way Issue 1, Spring 2021, pp. 23-24 (excerpt from interview w/Erma Fiend)

Thing Issue no. 3, Summer 1990

Re: Creation by Nikki Giovanni, Broadside Press, 1970

Aquarius Rising by Ben Fama, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010

excerpt from Ugly Duckling Issue 6, October 2003

Lynch by Inch: an interview to Ali Khalid Abdullah 2003

Blue Horses for Navajo Women by Nia Francisco, Greenfield Review Press, 1988

Mildred Pierce Issue 3, April 2009

The Match! Number 97, Winter 2001-2002

[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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