Category Archives: Feminist

Death of a Revolutionary

Posted on June 14, 2018 by

“When Shulamith Firestone’s body was found late last August, in her studio apartment on the fifth floor of a tenement walkup on East Tenth Street, she had been dead for some days. She was sixty-seven, and she had battled schizophrenia … Continue reading →

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1968: The season of planting is not the season of harvest

Posted on June 12, 2018 by

“French intellectuals of a certain age tend to divide their lives into two parts – ‘before May’ and ‘after May’. Philosopher Jacques Rancière defined May 1968 as a political moment which ‘signals the very essence of politics.’ Twenty years later, … Continue reading →

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Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68

Posted on June 8, 2018 by

“Clash of Images,” an exhibition in Paris of posters, paintings, films and other works from the uprising of May 1968 and beyond. “PARIS — Fifty years ago, almost to the day, students here began to strike over the rigidity and … Continue reading →

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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012)

Posted on May 21, 2018 by

“Shola Lynch’s documentary about Angela Davis, the activist and beacon of counterculture radicalism, is a snappily edited, archivally wallpapered recollection of fearless behavior in the face of an antsy establishment. But it’s equally significant as a pointed act of retelling. … Continue reading →

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Sexual Politics – Kate Millett (1970)

Posted on May 16, 2018 by

“Sexual Politics is a 1970 book by Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation. The book is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism‘s key texts. Millett argues that ‘sex has a frequently neglected political aspect’ … Continue reading →

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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1967)

Posted on May 1, 2018 by

“Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several … Continue reading →

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Think big, be free, have sex … 10 reasons to be an existentialist

Posted on April 22, 2018 by

De Beauvoir and Sarte on a Paris street after their release from police custody, June 1970. They were arrested for selling a newspaper advocating the overthrow of the French government. “I was a teenage existentialist. I became one at 16 … Continue reading →

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