The Feminist Utopia Project
Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
Published on 26. November 2015
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360 pages
978-1-55861-900-5 (ISBN)
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What would a world that matched your values look like? Today's leaders envision the ideal future of feminism.
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English
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New York
United States
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Height: 190 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
499 gr
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978-1-55861-900-5 (9781558619005)
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Alexandra Brodsky is an editor at Feministing.com, student at Yale Law School, and co-founder of Know Your IX, a national student campaign against campus gender-based violence. Alexandra regularly writes about feminist law in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation and has spoken about strengthening civil rights responses to gender-based violence on national television and radio programs and before the Senate.
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a playwright living in Los Angeles. She is the creator of The New York Times bestseller My Little Red Book, an anthology of women’s first period stories. She has given talks about periods to schools, conferences, and Girl Scout troops around the country. Her work reducing the taboos around menstruation has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, NPR, and Jezebel. You can learn more about her at itsrachelkaudernalebuff.com.
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a playwright living in Los Angeles. She is the creator of The New York Times bestseller My Little Red Book, an anthology of women’s first period stories. She has given talks about periods to schools, conferences, and Girl Scout troops around the country. Her work reducing the taboos around menstruation has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, NPR, and Jezebel. You can learn more about her at itsrachelkaudernalebuff.com.
Content
Table of Contents
About This Book 3
Acknowledgements 4
INDEX A: Imperfect Categories 7
Introduction 14
Dispatches from a Body Perfect World --Jenny Trout 17
Our Bodies, Us --Elizabeth Deutsch 20
My Own Sound --Christine Sun Kim 22
Reproductive Supporters--Anonymous 24
What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like For Parents of Color?--Victoria Law 26
Feminist Utopia Teen Mom Schedule--Gloria Malone 30
I Don't --Sam Huber 33
Queer in Public --Courtney Baxter 38
Interview with Suey Park 39
A LIST OF 34 IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL BRAS FOR GIRLS WITH SMALL BOOBS --Sarah Matthes 42
Interview with Chloe Angyal 43
Poems for Past Lovers 1-3 --Charlotte Lieberman 46
Dispatch from the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure --Maya Dusenbery 52
Interview with Kate Orazem 57
Sliding Doors --Jasmine Giuliani 62
Finding an Erotic Transcendence: Sex in a Feminist Utopia --Lori Adelman 63
Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves --William Schlesinger 69
Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist
Utopia-- Tessa Smith 70
Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry 75
No Escape Hatch --Ria Fay-Berquist 79
Not On My Block: Envisioning a World Without Street Harassment--
Hannah Giorgis 83
The Day Without Body Shame --Erin Matson 85
Raising Generation E (For Empathy): The Final Frontier of Feminism
--Mindi Rose Englart 87
Interview with Jessica Luther 90
Interview with Lauren Chief Elk 94
Justice Mariame Kaba and Bianca Diaz 98
The New Word Order --Amy Jean Porter 103
Renouncing Reality --Chanelle Adams 104
What Will Children Play with in Utopia? Or: What is the Opposite of a Mirror --Richard Espinosa and Kate Riley 105
New Rites of Transition --Gabrielle Gamboa 106
Back to School 1 & 2 --Tyler Cohen 107
Flag for the United Nations of Magical Girls --Nicole Killian 108
Feminist Constitution --Katherine Cross 109
Less Work, More Time --Madeleine Schwartz 114
Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future-- Ellen Bravo 117
Working Utopia --Melissa Gira Grant 123
Imperfectly: A Feminist Utopian Economy that Embraces and Addresses Human Flaws --Sheila Bapat 126
Equity Eats-- Eileen McFarland 129
An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night --s.e. smith 132
Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition --Dara Lind 135
Interview with Judy Rebick --Sheila Heti 141
Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Suzanna Bobadilla 146
Noisy Utopia --Karla Schickele 152
Embroidering Revolution --Verónica Bayetti Flores 154
Lesbo Island --Jill Soloway 156
Dispatch from Outside the Girl Talk Incubator-- Katie J.M. Baker 161
Welcome to Arcadia --Julie Zeilinger 162
Interview with Mia McKenzie 165
Beyond Badass: Towards a Feminist, Antiracist Literature-- Daniel José Older 167
Interview with Ileana Jiménez 169
Let Him Wear a Tutu --Yamberlie M. Tavarez 173
If Absence Was The Source of Silence Reginald --Dwayne Betts 176
The Free Girl Who Is Everything --Janet Mock 178
7 Rituals From the Feminist Utopia: Prebirth to Postdeath-- Yumi Sakugawa 180
When God Becomes a Woman --Abigail Carney 181
Interview with Harsh Crowd 182
INDEX B: Sightings of Utopia 187
About the Editors 188
About This Book 3
Acknowledgements 4
INDEX A: Imperfect Categories 7
Introduction 14
Dispatches from a Body Perfect World --Jenny Trout 17
Our Bodies, Us --Elizabeth Deutsch 20
My Own Sound --Christine Sun Kim 22
Reproductive Supporters--Anonymous 24
What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like For Parents of Color?--Victoria Law 26
Feminist Utopia Teen Mom Schedule--Gloria Malone 30
I Don't --Sam Huber 33
Queer in Public --Courtney Baxter 38
Interview with Suey Park 39
A LIST OF 34 IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL BRAS FOR GIRLS WITH SMALL BOOBS --Sarah Matthes 42
Interview with Chloe Angyal 43
Poems for Past Lovers 1-3 --Charlotte Lieberman 46
Dispatch from the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure --Maya Dusenbery 52
Interview with Kate Orazem 57
Sliding Doors --Jasmine Giuliani 62
Finding an Erotic Transcendence: Sex in a Feminist Utopia --Lori Adelman 63
Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves --William Schlesinger 69
Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist
Utopia-- Tessa Smith 70
Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry 75
No Escape Hatch --Ria Fay-Berquist 79
Not On My Block: Envisioning a World Without Street Harassment--
Hannah Giorgis 83
The Day Without Body Shame --Erin Matson 85
Raising Generation E (For Empathy): The Final Frontier of Feminism
--Mindi Rose Englart 87
Interview with Jessica Luther 90
Interview with Lauren Chief Elk 94
Justice Mariame Kaba and Bianca Diaz 98
The New Word Order --Amy Jean Porter 103
Renouncing Reality --Chanelle Adams 104
What Will Children Play with in Utopia? Or: What is the Opposite of a Mirror --Richard Espinosa and Kate Riley 105
New Rites of Transition --Gabrielle Gamboa 106
Back to School 1 & 2 --Tyler Cohen 107
Flag for the United Nations of Magical Girls --Nicole Killian 108
Feminist Constitution --Katherine Cross 109
Less Work, More Time --Madeleine Schwartz 114
Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future-- Ellen Bravo 117
Working Utopia --Melissa Gira Grant 123
Imperfectly: A Feminist Utopian Economy that Embraces and Addresses Human Flaws --Sheila Bapat 126
Equity Eats-- Eileen McFarland 129
An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night --s.e. smith 132
Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition --Dara Lind 135
Interview with Judy Rebick --Sheila Heti 141
Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Suzanna Bobadilla 146
Noisy Utopia --Karla Schickele 152
Embroidering Revolution --Verónica Bayetti Flores 154
Lesbo Island --Jill Soloway 156
Dispatch from Outside the Girl Talk Incubator-- Katie J.M. Baker 161
Welcome to Arcadia --Julie Zeilinger 162
Interview with Mia McKenzie 165
Beyond Badass: Towards a Feminist, Antiracist Literature-- Daniel José Older 167
Interview with Ileana Jiménez 169
Let Him Wear a Tutu --Yamberlie M. Tavarez 173
If Absence Was The Source of Silence Reginald --Dwayne Betts 176
The Free Girl Who Is Everything --Janet Mock 178
7 Rituals From the Feminist Utopia: Prebirth to Postdeath-- Yumi Sakugawa 180
When God Becomes a Woman --Abigail Carney 181
Interview with Harsh Crowd 182
INDEX B: Sightings of Utopia 187
About the Editors 188