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FP seeks to champion intersectional and nuanced works that spark much-needed dialogue and move the feminist conversation forward. Current editorial initiatives include the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, created to highlight debut work by women and nonbinary writers of color, and Amethyst Editions, a queer imprint founded by Michelle Tea. MISSION

The Feminist Press publishes books that We are seeking political and cultural activist ignite movements and social transformation. nonfiction that furthers our understanding of Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent intersectional feminism. We gravitate toward and marginalized voices from around the voice- and vision-driven stories as well as genre- world to build a more just future. defying texts. Other topics of interest include feminist dystopia, environmental justice, and VISION immigration stories. We do not publish poetry, To create a world where everyone dramatic works, doctoral dissertations, or recognizes themselves in a book. literary criticism.

2 MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS 3 THIS IS HOW WE COME BACK STRONGER BLACK BOX Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement Edited by Feminist Book Society Shiori Ito Translated by Allison Markin Powell

In essays, short fiction, poetry, and more, writers In 2015 an aspiring young journalist named Shiori SHIORI This is how we come back stronger. Edited by Feminist Book Society from the United States and the United Kingdom Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamagu- n essays, short fiction, poetry, and more, feminist writers respond to the personal and the political This respond to the personal and the political in the chi with rape. After meeting up for drinks and I in the time of pandemic. Marking the one-year anniversary of lockdown in the US and the UK, this time of pandemic. Marking the one-year anni- networking, Ito remembers regaining conscious- ITO transatlantic collection considers where we go from Feminist here – and reminds us that, despite it all, we are is not alone. Ten per cent of every book sold will be writers versary of lockdown in the US and the UK, these ness in a hotel room while being assaulted. But donated to Third Wave Fund to support youth-led on turning gender-justice organizing and activism. pieces consider where we go from here—and when she went to the police, Ito was told that how crisis into FEATURING change remind us that, despite it all, we are not alone. her case was a “black box”—untouchable and Amelia Abraham n Yomi Adegoke n Rosanna Amaka Laura Bates n Fatima Bhutto n Lauren Bravo unprosecutable. Molly Case n Catherine Cho n Sara Collins we This Is How We Come Back Stronger is an essential Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter Juli Delgado Lopera n Lindsey Dryden collection for our times, featuring contributions Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that Stella Duffy n Sarah Eagle Heart n Fox Fisher Shirley Geok-lin Lim n Mireille Cassandra Harper come from Fatima Bhutto, Layla Saad, Juliet Jacques, chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, call- Kerry Hudson n Akasha Hull n Juliet Jacques Jude Kelly n Dorothy Koomson n Kuchenga Kate Mosse, Michelle Tea, Lisa Taddeo, Akasha ing for changes to an industry—and in society Helen Lederer n Francesca Martinez n Gina Miller n n n back Jessica Moor Kate Mosse Jess Phillips Layla F. Saad Hull, Amelia Abraham, Virgie Tovar, and more. at large—to ensure that future victims of sexual Radhika Sanghani n Jenny Sealey n Shaz n Lisa Taddeo Michelle Tea n Virgie Tovar n Sophie Williams stronger. It provides both an intimate, immediate look at assault can come forward without being silenced life during lockdown—amid the political turmoil and humiliated. With careful and quiet fury, Black

ISBN 978-1-952177-90-3 $25.95 US Edited by THE FEMINIST PRESS and everyday insecurity—as well as a reflection Box recounts a broken system of repression and AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Feminist Book Society FEMINISTPRESS.ORG on what has changed. Ten percent of every book violence—but it also heralds the beginning of a THE MEMOIR THAT SPARKED JAPAN'S #METOO MOVEMENT sold will be donated to Third Wave Fund to support new solidarity movement seeking a more equitable “What you’ll find in these pages is a truly TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL youth-led gender justice activism. path toward justice. exhilarating and honest creative response to crisis.” FEMINIST BOOK SOCIETY is a UK-based literary orga- SHIORI ITO is a freelance journalist who contributes “Ms. Ito’s story is a stark example of how —FEMINIST BOOK SOCIETY, from the introduction nization of writers and publishing professionals. news footage and documentaries to the Econ- sexual assault remains a subject to be omist, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and other primarily avoided in Japan, where few women report non-Japanese media outlets. She was named one rape to the police and when they do, their complaints rarely result in arrests or of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people prosecution.” in 2020. —NEW YORK TIMES ALLISON MARKIN POWELL has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize. She is based in New York.

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4 SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 5 TASTES LIKE WAR WE ARE BRIDGES WINNER A Memoir A Memoir The Louise Meriwether Grace M. Cho Cassandra Lane First Book Prize

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty- American merchant marine and the Korean bar five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant explo- hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, ration of memory in order to prepare for moth- her mother experienced the onset of schizophre- erhood. We Are Bridges is the realization of this nia, a condition that first developed in their xeno- journey, a memoir that weaves personal narrative phobic small town and would evolve for the rest and speculation together in order to rescue the of her life. lives of Cassandra’s great-grandparents, Mary Magdalene Magee and Burt Bridges, from his- Part memoir, part sociological investigation, torical erasure. Shifting between present-day Los Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s Angeles and the early twentieth-century South, We search through intimate and global history for the Are Bridges is Cassandra Lane’s love letter to her roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her moth- ancestors, a declaration of her own story, and a er’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from lyrical blueprint for her child’s future. her mother’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her moth- CASSANDRA LANE is a writer and editor based in Los er’s multiple voices. And over these shared meals, Angeles. Lane received her MFA from Antioch Grace discovered not only the things that broke University LA. Her stories have appeared in the the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her New York Times’s Conception series, the Times- but also the things that kept her alive. Picayune, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, and “Both an exquisite commemoration elsewhere. She is managing editor of L.A. Parent GRACE M. CHO is the author of Haunting the Korean “An exceptional memoir of self-discovery and a potent reclamation.” magazine and formerly served on the board of the Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. through family histories, even without —BOOKLIST (starred review) AROHO Foundation. Her writing has appeared in journals such as the official records.” New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Gastronomica, —FOREWORD REVIEWS (starred review) and Feminist Studies. She is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

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6 SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 7 ALEJANDRIA FIGHTS BACK! / ¡LA LUCHA DE ALEJANDRIA! Estoy afuera de la pulpería del Sr. Amir terminando mi raspado cuando escucho a alguien gritar “¡Ale!” Es mi mejor Leticia Hernández-Linares and the Rise-Home Stories Project amigo, Edgar. Estaba visitando a su abuela en Guatemala, y siento como si él hubiera estado lejos por una eternidad. “¿Qué me perdí?” pregunta Edgar. Illustrated by Robert Liu-Trujillo “Qué verano tan laaargo,” le digo, y comienzo a contarle la historia de cómo casi perdimos nuestro hogar.

For nine-year-old Alejandria, home isn’t just the apartment she shares with Mami and her abuela, or nine-year-old Alejandria, home isn’t just the apartment she shares Alejandria Fights Back! Fwith Mami and her abuela, Tita, but rather the whole neighborhood. Home is the bakery where Ms. Beatrice makes yummy picos; the sidewalk Tita, but rather the whole neighborhood. Home where Ms. Alicia sells flowers with her little dog, Duende; and the corner store with friendly Mr. Amir. ¡La lucha de Alejandria! is the bakery where Ms. Beatrice makes yummy But lately the city has been changing, and rent prices are going up. I’m outside Mr. Amir’s finishing my raspado when I hear Many people in el barrio are leaving because they can no longer afford picos; the sidewalk where Ms. Alicia sells flowers someone shout “Ale!” It’s my best friend, Edgar. He was their homes, and “For Sale” signs are popping up everywhere. Then the visiting his grandma in Guatemala, and it feels like he’s been worst thing happens: Mami receives a letter saying they’ll have to move gone forever. “What did I miss?” Edgar asks. out too. with her little dog, Duende; and the corner store “It’s been a looong summer,” I say, and launch into the story Alejandria knows it isn’t fair, but she’s not about to give up and leave. of how we almost lost our home. Join Alejandria as she brings her community together to fight and save with friendly Mr. Amir. 6 7

their neighborhood! Alejandria Fights Back! ara Alejandria de nueve años, el hogar no es sólo el apartamento que Pcomparte con Mami y su abuela, Tita, sino más bien todo el barrio. But lately the city has been changing, and rent El hogar es la panadería donde la Sra. Beatrice hace unos ricos picos; la vereda donde la Sra. Alicia vende flores con su perrito, Duende; y la prices are going up. Many people in el barrio pulpería con el amistoso Sr. Amir. lucha de Alejandria! ¡La Pero últimamente la ciudad ha estado cambiando, y los precios de alquiler están subiendo. Muchas personas en el barrio se están yendo are leaving because they can no longer afford porque ya no pueden costear sus hogares, y letreros anunciando “Se Se me olvidó lo que quería decir, así que alcé mi dibujo del Vende” están apareciendo por todos lados. Entonces ocurre lo peor: Mami their homes, and For Sale signs are popping up barrio. recibe una carta diciendo que ellas también tendrán que mudarse. “Mi nombre es Alejandria, y nací aquí mismo en Parkwood. Alejandria sabe que no es justo, pero no está dispuesta a darse por Quiero mostrarles que nuestro hogar no es sólo nuestro apartamento sino todo nuestro barrio. Mami, Tita, Julian, vencida e irse. ¡Únete a Alejandria mientras ella reúne a su comunidad everywhere. Then the worst thing happens: Mami la Sra. Beatrice, el Sr. Amir, la Sra. Alicia, Duende . . . somos para luchar y salvar su barrio! como una familia grande, y queremos quedarnos aquí. Como dice mi Tita, todos debemos de tener un lugar que podamos receives a letter saying they’ll have to move out decir que es nuestro hogar, no importa cuánto dinero tengamos. Espero que puedan hacer una ley sobre esto.” too. Alejandria knows it isn’t fair, but she’s not Cuando terminé, vi que Mami estaba llorando y sonriendo a la misma vez. about to give up and leave. Join Alejandria as she I forgot what I wanted to say, so I held up my drawing of the neighborhood. THE brings her community together to fight and save “My name is Alejandria, and I was born right here in FEMINIST By/por Leticia Hernández-Linares and the Rise-Home Stories Project Parkwood. I want to show you that our home is not just our PRESS ISBN 978-1-55861-704-9 $16.95 US apartment but our whole neighborhood. Mami, Tita, Julian, AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY Illustrated by/ilustrado por Robert Liu-Trujillo their neighborhood from gentrification! Ms. Beatrice, Mr. Amir, Ms. Alicia, Duende . . . we’re like a big OF NEW YORK family, and we want to stay here. Like my Tita says, everyone FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Translated by/traducido por Carla España should have a place to call home, no matter how much money they have. I hope you can make a law about that.” LETICIA HERNÁNDEZ-LINARES is an educator, inter- When I finished, I saw that Mami was crying and smiling at the same time.

Alejandria_Fights_Back_cover_FINAL.indd 1 2/1/21 5:00 disciplinaryPM artist, and author of the poetry col- lection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. Her work appears in collections and journals such 34 35 as Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, Street Art San Francisco, Huizache, and Pilgrimage.

THE RISE-HOME STORIES PROJECT is an innovative col- laboration between multimedia storytellers and social justice advocates from several grassroots organizations who work at the nexus of housing, land, and racial justice in the US.

ROBERT LIU-TRUJILLO is an author and illustrator

based in the Bay Area. He is the author of several ¡Y si alguna vez estás por el barrio, te daré la bienvenida y te mostraré todas las personas y lugares especiales que forman books, including Furqan’s First Flat Top. nuestra gran familia!

And if you’re ever in the barrio, I will welcome you and show you all the special people and places that make up our big family!

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8 SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 9 SKYE PAPERS MARGARET AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BODY Jamika Ajalon Megan Milks

Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between Meet Margaret Worms. At twelve years old, she’s cities and stagnant relationships until she meets the head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British trav- Solve Anything. Margaret and her three best eler, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New friends are leading exciting lives solving crimes, York. As kindred spirits—Black, punk, whimsical, having adventures, and laughing a lot. Fast-forward revolutionary—the three fall in together, leading to high school. The club has disbanded, and Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlan- Margaret is unmoored—she doesn’t want to grow tic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in up, and she wishes her friends wouldn’t either. 1990s London until it is jeopardized by the rise of Instead, she opts out, developing an eating dis- CCTV and policing. order that quickly takes over her life. When she enters a treatment center, Margaret finds her In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon’s path to recovery twisting sideways as she pursues debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it a string of mysteries involving a ghost, a hidden means to come to terms with queerness. Skye passage, disturbing desires, and her own vexed Papers is an imaginative, episodic group portrait relationship with herself. of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color—and of the fraught, dystopian reality of An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmor- increasing state surveillance. phia and dysphoria, Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence— “Skye Papers is a story of becoming— JAMIKA AJALON is an author and interdisciplinary mashing up girl group series and choose-your-own- part love story, part surveillance-state artist who works with different mediums inde- adventures—in a queer and trans coming-of-age dystopia—from a wholly unique and pendently, but also in multiple fusions—incorpo- tale like no other. necessary new voice.” rating written and spoken text, sound/music, and —PAMELA SNEED visuals. Her poems, stories, and essays have been MEGAN MILKS is the author of Kill Marguerite and published in various publications internationally. Other Stories—finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction and forthcoming from Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated Feminist Press in revised and expanded form—as for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea. well as Remember the Internet: Tori Amos Boot- leg Webring. Born in Virginia, they currently live in Brooklyn.

Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

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10 SPRING 2021 FALL 2021 11 SLUG AND OTHER STORIES PANPOCALYPSE Megan Milks Carley Moore

A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another In pandemic-era NYC, Orpheus just manages to quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in buy a bike before they sell out across the city. She love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from takes to the streets looking for Eurydice, the first the walls. These stories slip and slide between woman she fell in love with, who broke her heart. genres—from video games to fan fiction, avant- The city is largely closed, devoid of touch, con- garde theater to choose-your-own-adventure—as nection, and community. But Orpheus hears mys- characters cycle through giddying changes in gen- terious news of an underground bar, Le​​ Monacle, der, physiology, species, and identity. Collapsing fashioned after the lesbian club of the same name boundaries between bodies and forms, these fic- in 1930s Paris. Can she find it? Will she ever be tions interrogate the visceral, gross, and absurd. allowed to love again? Follow our lonely queer, dis- abled, poly hero in a new serialized novel about “This book is fucking weird,” wrote Brit Mandelo disease, decay, love, and revolution. in 2015. It’s only gotten weirder since. Slug and Other Stories is a revised and expanded edition of CARLEY MOORE is the author of the essay collection a contemporary cult classic. Finally back in print, 16 Pills, the poetry chapbook Portal Poem, the this collection is a testament to the messy anti- young adult novel The Stalker Chronicles, and logic of queer feelings by a revelatory new voice. the fiction novelThe Not Wives. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brain- MEGAN MILKS is the author of Margaret and the child, the Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of Popular “A gory and gorgeous mess.” Mystery of the Missing Body and Remember the “Panpocalypse is​ a rousing, eerily Culture, and other publications. She is a clinical —AMBER DAWN Internet: Tori Amos Bootleg Webring. With Marisa enchanting, and verve-filled exploration professor of writing and contemporary culture and Crawford, they are coeditor of We Are the Baby- of love and life in the midst of brittle creative production in the Global Liberal Studies Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up collapse and upheaval.” Program at New York University and a senior asso- Readers; with KJ Cerankowski, they are coeditor —JAMIA WILSON ciate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Thinking. She lives in Brooklyn. Born in Virginia, they currently live in Brooklyn. Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

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12 FALL 2021 FALL 2021 13 WE WERE THERE IN CASE OF EMERGENCY The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave Mahsa Mohebali Patricia Romney Translated by Mariam Rahmani

From 1970 to 1980, the Third World Women’s What do you do when the world is falling apart Alliance lived the dream of third world femi- and you’re in withdrawal? Disillusioned, wealthy, nism. The small bicoastal organization was one and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day of the earliest groups advocating for what came to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low to be known as intersectional activism, arguing stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee that women of color faced a “triple jeopardy” of in bumper-to-bumper traffic as skaters and pretty race, gender, and class oppression. Rooted in the boys rise up to claim the city as theirs. Cross- Black civil rights movement, the TWAA pushed dressed to evade hijab laws, Shadi flits between the women’s movement to address issues such as her dysfunctional family and depressed friends— sterilization abuse, infant mortality, welfare, and all in search of her next fix. wage exploitation. Their revolutionary framework Mahsa Mohebali’s groundbreaking novel about focused on the effect of US foreign and military Iranian counterculture is a satirical portrait of policy on women’s lives worldwide, declaring the disaster that is contemporary life. Weaving that US activists had an important role to play in together gritty vernacular and cinematic prose, “global sisterhood.” In Case of Emergency takes a darkly humorous, Interweaving oral history, scholarly research, and scathing look at the authoritarian state, global first-person memoir,We Were There documents capitalism, and the gender binary. the essential contributions of women of color to MAHSA MOHEBALI is an Iranian fiction writer. She the movement, and will inspire activists today and is the author of several novels and short story tomorrow, reminding a new generation that soli- collections. Her short stories have appeared in darity across difference is the only way forward. English in the Guardian as well as the anthologies PATRICIA ROMNEY received her PhD in clinical psy- Tehran Noir Alive and Kicking: Short Stories by chology from the City University of New York. She Contemporary Iranian Women. She lives and works taught at Hampshire College and Mount Holyoke in Tehran. College, and is the coeditor of Understanding MARIAM RAHMANI is a writer, translator, and scholar. Power: An Imperative for Human Services. She is Her fiction has appeared inGulf Coast; her trans- based in Amherst, MA. lations in Columbia Journal and After Cinema: Fictions from A Collective Memory; and her non- fiction writing inBOMB magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Rumpus.

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14 FALL 2021 FALL 2021 15 BLOOD FEAST AMETHYST EDITIONS The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf Founded by Michelle Tea Malika Moustadraf Amethyst Editions is an imprint founded by Michelle Tea Translated by Alice Guthrie championing emerging queer writers who complicate the conversation around LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a coming-out narrative. In Blood Feast, the complete collection of short fiction by Moroccan cult feminist writer Malika Moustadraf, a woman is groped during her suffo­ “A story of migration, queerness, brokenness, and love, this book FIEBRE TROPICAL is absolute music to my ears.” —INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS

cating commute; a teenage girl suffers through a DELGADO JULIANA “ Lit by neon Miami sunsets and the hot glow of the Christian LOPERA prootedA fromNovel Bogotá, apocalypse, Fiebre Tropical is a coming-of-age tale, a coming- UColombia, into an ant-infested dystopian rite of passage; twoout tale, mothers a migration tale we’ve scheme never read and badly need.” Miami townhouse, fifteen-year- —MICHELLE TEA, author of Against Memoir old FranciscaJuli is miserable Delgado in her Lopera FIEBRE TROPICAL strange new city. Her alienation “ ¡Ay Dios mío! This book’s got tumbao. Juliana Delgado Lopera’s eye for grows when her mother and about how to ensure their daughtersdetail is fierce, and this passnovel is easy toa devour.” vir - grandmother are swept up into —JOSEPH CASSARA, author of The House of Impossible Beauties an evangelicalFinalist church—replete for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction! ginity test. “ Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” with Christian salsa and baptisms —DANIEL HANDLER, author of Bottle Grove for the dead—that meets in the ballroom of their local Hyatt Hotel. “ Delgado Lopera’s riveting new book is propelled as much by its JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is “Ebullient and assertive. . . . Francisca’s soul stinks up the hurricane-force language as by its unforgettable characters: storm- But there, Francisca also meets an award-winning Colombian Through brilliantly executed twiststossed women and making the rich best of their slang, new lives in a new country.” the magnetic Carmen: head of writer and historian based in —CAROLINE PAUL, author of You Are Mighty the youth group and the pastor’s San Francisco. She is the author place beautifully in Fiebre Tropical.” daughter. As her mother’s mental of Quiéreme and the illustrated, Moustadraf takes an unflinching“ A magnificent novel. lookPa’ decirlo clarito: at Delgado the Lopera is a writer of health deteriorates, Francisca falls bilingual collection ¡Cuéntamelo! explosive talent, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution to for Carmen and turns to Jesus to Oral Histories by LGBT Latino —NEW YORK TIMES queer literature, Latinx literature, and immigrant literature, but also to grow closer to her, even as their Immigrants, which won a 2018 female body, abuse and harassment,literature, punto.” and double FIEBRE relationship hurtles toward a Lambda Literary Award and a —CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS, author of Cantoras shattering conclusion. 2018 Independent Publisher standards aroundBook Award. Her workdesire. has been Blood“ Breathless, Feast hungry, funny, is fun—the a new sharp immigrant novel in a knowing, TROPICAL NarratedUprooted in irreverent prose from Bogotá to Miami, fifteen-year-old Francisca see-all Colombian lesbian voice—this novel is much needed and alive.” nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a groundbreaking rhythmic —SARAH SCHULMAN, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Spanglish, Fiebre Tropical provocation Foglifterto , Fourpatriarchal Way Review, Broadly, power, and a celebra- establishesis Julianamiserable Delgado in her strange new city. Her alienation grows “ Gorgeously written, tragic and hilarious by turns, Fiebre Tropical is a and Time Out, among others. She Lopera as a bold new voice in tale of the soul-saving, soul-crushing power of first love.” is the former creative director of American literature. tion of the RADARlife Productions, and a queer genius literary of—ANNALEE one NEWITZ of, author ofMorocco’s Autonomous when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church nonprofit in San Francisco.

preeminent­ writers. ISBN 978-1-936932-75-7 $17.95 US replete with baptisms for the dead. But everything changes THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG A NOVEL BY JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA when Francisca meets the magnetic Carmen—head of the MALIKA MOUSTADRAF (1969–2006) was an arabo- youth group and the pastor’s daughter. phone writer from Casablanca, Morocco. She died at just thirty-seven, leaving behind a semiauto­ $17.95 • 978-1-936932-75-7 • 296 pages • Rights: World x Colombia x Brazil biographical novel and a collection of short stories. An exacting social critic, Moustadraf was admired for her distinctive and experimental style. TABITHA$17.95 US / $23.99 CANAND MAGOO

MICHELLE TEA is the author of several works Tabitha and Magoo love to play dress up in for young readers, including Mermaid in their room. TabithaDRESS uses her brother’s shirtsUP TOO Chelsea Creek and the Astro Pals picture book to make superhero capes, and Magoo uses his ALICE GUTHRIE is a translator, editor, and event pro- Tabitha and Magoo Dress Up Too series. A prolific literary organizer in queer and sister’s frilly skirts to fashion gowns. They’re feminist communities, she founded RADAR disappointed to think they can’t go outside in Productions, Drag Queen Storyducer Hour, and specializing in contemporary Arabic litera- their new outfits,Michelle but then the gorgeous dragTea the Amethyst Editions imprint at the Feminist queen Morgana magically appears! Press. She lives in Los Angeles. With their newIllustrated friend’s help, they learn to by Ellis van der Does ELLIS VAN DER DOES is a Dutchture illustrator andand media.But on one Her special day translations while Tabitha practiced her powershave appeared in defy restrictive gender roles and celebrate designer based in London. being themselves. The trio, dressed in colorful and Magoo stumbled about in Mom’s heels, high as towers, costumes and riding in a flying car, then heads a range of internationalthey laid eyes on a visitor they’d publications never before seen— and venues. to the local libraryTabitha for a diverse and fun-filledand Magoo love to play dress story time. a gorgeous, ginormous, fantastic Drag Queen! She is curator and producer of the literary strand up. Tabitha uses her brother’s shirts of Shubbak, London’s biennial festival of Arab arts to make superhero capes, and Magoo and culture. She lives in Bristol. uses his sister’s frilly skirts to fashion MICHELLE TEA gowns. With the help of the magical

Written by Michelle Tea drag queen Morgana, the siblings ISBN 978-1-936932-77-1 $17.95 US Illustrated by Ellis van der Does learn to defy restrictive gender roles

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16 FALL 2021 AMETHYST EDITIONS 17 “Gritty, sexy, very queer— THE NOT WIVES AGAINST MEMOIR up-all-night compelling.” —ANDREA LAWLOR A novel of sex-positive awakening he Not Wives traces the lives of TthreeCarley women as they navigate Moore the Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms and burgeoning political resistance, Occupy Wall Street movement and set in Occupy-era New York City. one another. Stevie is a nontenured professor and mom in the middle of a divorce; her best friend Mel is a Michelle Tea “ A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, bartender, torn between her long- and human frailty.” term girlfriend“A and provocative a desire to explore and well-told story about chosen community, friendship,

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THE FEMINIST PORN BOOK HIS OWN WHERE The Politics of Producing Pleasure June Jordan Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, Introduction by Sapphire and Mireille Miller-Young First published in 1971, His Own Where gained both praise and notori- This book addresses the fraught history of pornography and the rise of the ety for being written entirely in Black Vernacular English. Fifteen-year-old antiporn movement, and identifies the importance of porn made for and Buddy meets Angela, whose family life is also spinning out of control. The by feminists. two find a home in one another, learning to love while navigating Brooklyn and adolescence.

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THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION “I’m a big Cristy C. Road fan. Spit and Passion is SPIT AND PASSION

a graphic delight, and the depiction of Cristy C. r oad awkward youth is spot-on, weird, and familiar. -- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, “Cristy C. Road is the Jack Kerouac of the young queer generation. Cristy C. Road She’s as brilliant a writer as she is an illustrator.” —-- kate bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger

and Robin M. Boylorn t its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Sud- A denly, you belong. In this punk graphic memoir, twelve-year-old Cristy is struggling to At twelve years old, Cristy C. Road is trying to balance the values of a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obses- sion with the punk band Green Day. In this stunning graphic memoir, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing sub- Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticismurban conformitytakes she is surrounded by. She finds solace in the closet—where balance tradition in a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer she lets her deep excitement about punk rock foment and, in that angst and euphoria, finds a path to self-acceptance.

on beauty parlor politics, prison abolition, and Rihanna. The CrunkCristy C.Fem road has reached- cult status for work identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. that captures the beauty of the imperfect. Her career began with Greenzine, a punk rock zine, which she made for ten years. She has since published Indestruc- tible, an illustrated novel about high school; Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard book; and Bad inist Collective’s blog, with an annual readership of nearly one million,Habits, a love story about self-destruction and healing. She has also illustrated countless album covers, book jackets, and political organization propaganda. She lives fosters dialogue for critical homegirls stuck between loving hip hopin Brooklyn, Newand York. P H oto: l IS ette CARR e RA “ratchet culture” while hating patriarchy and sexism. graphic novel $15.95 US

$24.95 • 978-1-55861-943-2 • 360 pages • Rights: World x South Africa $15.95 • 978-1-55861-807-7 • 128 pages • Rights: World PHELPS “HIGH VOLTAGE—FULL OF YOUTH, DETERMINATION, AND POWER.”—EMILY BAZELON THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT FEMINIST FOLKTALES SERIES KAMALA Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS Edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KAMALA Introduction by KATE SCHATZ | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON Illustrated by Suki Boynton What might we dream of after reading these tales? In Kamala, the second volume in Introductions by Gayle Forman, Kate Schatz, Daniel José Older, the Feminist Folktales series, stories from countries such as India, Peru, THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT Cutting-edge voices including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, andChina, and Ireland follow clever, FIFTY-SEVEN VISIONS OF A WILDLY BETTER FUTURE outspoken heroines—demonstrating how the courage and power of women and Renée Watson Sheila Heti invite us to imagine the world we want. Featuring essays,hold our world together. “Who stole these fierce, bawdy stories from the mouths of mothers and transformed the strong girls into damsels in distress? Who cast Bringing readers tales from China, Sudan, Norway, Peru, and beyond, this speculative fiction, interviews, and art,The Feminist Utopia Project chalthe spell . . -. and how do we break it? With books like this, obviously!” —Kate Schatz, lenges the status quo, describes affirmative visions, and exhorts usRad toAmerican Women A–Z VOL. II best-selling four-volume series reminds us that girls and women every- isbn 978-155861-940-1 $14.95 Us demand a radically better future. where have been the heroes of their own stories for centuries.

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ZORA NEALE HURSTON ZORA NEALE HURSTON A FEMINIST PRESS CLASSIC, (1891–1960) was a novelist, REISSUEDI FORTYLOVE YEARS LATER. MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHING . . . FAULT LINES folklorist, and anthropologist. She was the author of several books ... And Then Again When I Am fault lines “One of the greatest writers including Jonah’s Gourd Vine, of our time.” Their Eyes Were Watching God, Looking Mean and Impressive —TONI MORRISON Mules and Men, and Dust Tracks When I Am Laughing ... A Zora Neale Hurston Reader A Memoir on a Road, as well as over fifty An acclaimed Indian poet explores short stories, essays, and plays. uring her lifetime, Zora Neale She attended Howard University, D Hurston was praised for her writing, memory, and place in this Barnard College, and Columbia writing but condemned for her classic postcolonial memoir. University. She was born on independenceEdited and audacity. She by Alice Walker Meena Alexander January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, was one of the great writers of the

oeMsl hnIA agig... . . I Love Myself When Am Laughing “ Meena Alexander’s writing is imbued with a poetic grace Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Harlem Renaissance, yet after her shot through with an inner violence, like a shimmering piece death much of her work fell out of Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in of two-toned silk.” 1960. In 1973 Alice Walker had a print and her literary legacy was —MS. magazine headstone placed at her gravesite definedIntroduction by men more concerned by Mary Helen Washington With a new afterword by Gaiutra Bahadur with this epitaph: “Zora Neale with her behavior than with her “Evocative and moving.” merit. But, in the 1970s, Alice Hurston: A Genius of the South.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Walker lifted Hurston’s work from a memoir obscurity when she discovered her “ In Fault Lines, Meena Alexander tells us—and herself—that ALICE WALKER is the author unmarked grave and anthologized ‘we need a speech that acknowledges rage.’ Now more than of multiple novels, short stories, her writing in this collection of ever, we need her voice.” children’s books, essays, and folklore, essays, and fiction. —VIDHU AGGARWAL, author of The Trouble with Humpadori poetry collections, including 2018’s In the 1970s Alice Walker rediscovered Zora Neale Hurston’s unmarked Meena Alexander explores how trauma and recovery shaped the entire Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart. The first-ever Zora Neale “ One of the most important literary voices in South Asian She is the winner of the Pulitzer Hurston reader, I Love Myself . . . American writing and American letters broadly writ, Meena Prize and the National Book Award established Hurston as an Alexander is a writer who sews her dislocations together into a place where all are welcome, held by her elegant, lyrical prose.” for The Color Purple, and her work intellectual leader for future —RAJIV MOHABIR, author of The Cowherd’s Son has been translated into numerous generations of writers, and landscape of her memory, across continents and cultures. This new edi- languages worldwide. grave and anthologized her writing in this enduring collection. ensured the continuation of her “ Meena Alexander’s acute poetic sensibility makes this memoir legacy as an American artist and a joy to read.” icon. A testament to the power —BAPSI SIDHWA, author of Cracking India and breadth of Hurston’s oeuvre, tion, published on the two-year anniversary of Alexander’s passing in the newest edition of this enduring text remains as vital as ever for readers today. ISBN 978-1-936932-73-3 $19.95 US ISBN 978-1-936932-99-3 $18.95 US meena alexander THE FEMINIST PRESS Preface by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2018, features a commemorative afterword. AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG With a new afterword by Gaiutra Bahadur

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But Some of Us Are Brave ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE MEN, VALERIE SOLANAS “ Exciting! Affirmations and the beginning of a new era, where All the Women Are White, the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’” All the Blacks Are Men, —AudrE LordE “ ‘Necessary bread’ for women of all colors. The essays contain BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM not only fact and durable resources but some of the best But Some of Us writing I’ve seen around.” —AdrIENNE rIch Are Brave Black Women’s Studies Black Women’s Studies (Second Edition) (and Shot Andy Warhol) Edited by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith Breanne Fahs Afterword by Brittney C. Cooper Shockingly little work has interrogated Solanas’s life. This book is the first & Barbara Smith Patricia Bell-Scott Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Edited by AkAshA (GLorIA T.) huLL, BArBArA smITh,

ANd PATrIcIA BELL-scoTT s arah Putnam © 1981

Originally published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave is the first com- biography about Solanas, including original interviews with family, details “ It’s back! In college, Brave allowed me to see myself in 2nd feminism. This new edition brings this essential and still edition powerfully relevant book to a new generation.”

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WOMEN WHO KILL TESTO JUNKIE “Testo Junkie is a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, TESTO JUNKIE

Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. PAUL B. PRECIADO The results are spectacular. . . . The gendered body will never be the same again.” Ann Jones —JACK HALBERSTAM, author of THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era “ Preciado’s brilliant book oscillates between high theory and the surging rush of testosterone. Flush with elegant theoretical formulations, lascivious sex narratives, and astute histories of gender, Testo Junkie is a key text to comprehend the deep interconnectedness of sex and drugs today.” Paul B. Preciado “Stunning, revealing, provoking.” —VOGUE —JOSÉ ESTEBAN MUÑOZ, author of CRUISING UTOPIA hat constitutes a “real” man or woman in the twenty-first century? WSince birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory- made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no Translated by Bruce Benderson longer destiny. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating From Lizzie Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, this legendarydesire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado’s diaristic account of using testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on the body as well as the imagination. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Preciado shows the ways in which

bestseller and riveting investigation will change the ways you think aboutPAUL B. PRECIADO is one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. He is the author of Manifiesto contrasexual and Pornotopia: Architec- ture and Sexuality in Playboy During the Cold War, which has been named a finalist for the Anagrama the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed Essay Prize. He teaches at Université Paris VIII and crime and punishment. is the director of the Independent Studies Program at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.

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28 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 29 COCKFIGHT “Offering a glaring view of the impact of “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: misogynistic violence and oppression, this will her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” appeal to fans of unrepentant feminist fiction.” —YURI HERRERA —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY María Fernanda Ampuero

“Brutal! Very intense.” —MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ, author of Things We Lost in the Fire Translated by Frances Riddle “Ampuero is a writer of great power that the entire Americas will have to deal with for decades to come.” —ERNESTO QUIÑONEZ, author of Bodega Dreams Thirteen stories explore domestic horrors and everyday violence, providing RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS n lucid and compelling prose, Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero sheds light on the grotesque real- Iities of the home—family, coming-of-age, religion, and an intimate and unflinching portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America. class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, the characters in these stories spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight explores the US PERMISSIONS FRED COURTRIGHT power of the home to both create and destroy those within it. translated by Frances Riddle The Permissions Company

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