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PRAISE for the first issue of LIBER: a Feminist Review:

Testimonials

“A wonderful contribution to the conversation—and half of it seemed to have been written directly to me!”

—Alix Kates Shulman

“This is so good, so important, so ‘casually electrifying,’ I want to cry.”

—Leora Tanenbaum

“Gorgeous AND substantial!!!”

—Shane Snowdon

“The world needs a forum for new feminist ideas. Welcome!”

—Sarah Schulman

“In this scary-creepy time, this magnificent work is vital.”

—Blanche Wiesen Cook

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Volume 1: Issue 1

March/April 2022

All articles are available to subscribers to view online, and the full issue can be downloaded as a PDF:

LIBER Volume 1: Issue 1 – PDF Download

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On the cover: “Audre”

Elise Peterson’s digital collages are casually electrifying. “Audre,” on the cover, evokes Lorde’s distinct feminism by juxtaposing cozy intimacy and radical commitments. The last page of LIBER features Grace Jones circa 1985 perfectly balanced within Matisse’s La Danse (1909), effortlessly central. A writer, children’s book illustrator, and parent of a three-year-old, Peterson hosts the COOL MOMS podcast (recording live at SoHo House). In it, she interviews mothers who, like her, “prioritize their passions.” A longtime Brooklynite, she and her son Sargent moved to LA in 2019: “We are sitting in the sun and loving it.”

Contents

DEPARTMENTS

Editors’ Letters

Contributors

TIMELINE
Greatest Hits in Feminist Publishing

Three Poems by Joy Ladin

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Sarah Kane by Noelle McManus

STREAMING NOW
What We Remember is Not the Past by Laurie Stone

CRIT
Historical Failure by Meg Whiteford

REDUX
Just Go by Charis Caputo

FICTION
Redneck Lives Matter by Chris Kraus

HUMOR
Characters: They’re Just Like Us! by Rebecca Saltzman

REVIEWS

Identify
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
REVIEWED BY KATHLEEN ROONEY

Baby, Was I Born This Way?
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
REVIEWED BY S.C. CORNELL

Altogether Pat
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941–1995 edited by Anna von Planta
REVIEWED BY CLAIRE POTTER

Inviting Targets
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman
REVIEWED BY ANNA GODBERSEN

Report Card
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
REVIEWED BY HEATHER HEWETT

The Inevitable
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
REVIEWED BY NOELLE MCMANUS

We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey
REVIEWED BY KHOLISWA MENDES PEPANI

Archive of Desire
Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas
REVIEWED BY KATHLEEN ROONEY

Cocky As Hell
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery
REVIEWED BY MCKENZIE WARK

In Darkness, Together
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You by Big Thief
REVIEWED BY QUINN MARTIN