Feminist Utopia Project (eBook)

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.

Table of ContentsAbout This Book3Acknowledgements4INDEX A: Imperfect Categories7Introduction14Dispatches from a Body Perfect World --Jenny Trout17Our Bodies, Us --Elizabeth Deutsch20My Own Sound --Christine Sun Kim22Reproductive Supporters--Anonymous24What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like For Parents of Color?--Victoria Law26Feminist Utopia Teen Mom Schedule--Gloria Malone30I Don’t --Sam Huber33Queer in Public --Courtney Baxter38Interview with Suey Park39A LIST OF 34 IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL BRAS FOR GIRLS WITH SMALL BOOBS --Sarah Matthes42Interview with Chloe Angyal43Poems for Past Lovers 1-3 --Charlotte Lieberman46Dispatch from the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure --Maya Dusenbery52Interview with Kate Orazem57Sliding Doors --Jasmine Giuliani62Finding an Erotic Transcendence: Sex in a Feminist Utopia --Lori Adelman63Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves --William Schlesinger69Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist Utopia-- Tessa Smith70Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry75No Escape Hatch --Ria Fay-Berquist79Not On My Block: Envisioning a World Without Street Harassment-- Hannah Giorgis83The Day Without Body Shame --Erin Matson85Raising Generation E (For Empathy): The Final Frontier of Feminism --Mindi Rose Englart87Interview with Jessica Luther90Interview with Lauren Chief Elk94Justice Mariame Kaba and Bianca Diaz98The New Word Order --Amy Jean Porter103Renouncing Reality --Chanelle Adams104What Will Children Play with in Utopia? Or: What is the Opposite of a Mirror --Richard Espinosa and Kate Riley105New Rites of Transition --Gabrielle Gamboa106Back to School 1 & 2 --Tyler Cohen107Flag for the United Nations of Magical Girls --Nicole Killian108Feminist Constitution --Katherine Cross109Less Work, More Time --Madeleine Schwartz114Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future-- Ellen Bravo117Working Utopia --Melissa Gira Grant123Imperfectly: A Feminist Utopian Economy that Embraces and Addresses Human Flaws --Sheila Bapat126Equity Eats-- Eileen McFarland129An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night --s.e. smith132Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition --Dara Lind135Interview with Judy Rebick --Sheila Heti141Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Suzanna Bobadilla146Noisy Utopia --Karla Schickele152Embroidering Revolution --Verónica Bayetti Flores154Lesbo Island --Jill Soloway156Dispatch from Outside the Girl Talk Incubator-- Katie J.M. Baker161Welcome to Arcadia --Julie Zeilinger162Interview with Mia McKenzie165Beyond Badass: Towards a Feminist, Antiracist Literature-- Daniel José Older167Interview with Ileana Jiménez169Let Him Wear a Tutu --Yamberlie M. Tavarez173If Absence Was The Source of Silence Reginald --Dwayne Betts176The Free Girl Who Is Everything --Janet Mock1787 Rituals From the Feminist Utopia: Prebirth to Postdeath-- Yumi Sakugawa180When God Becomes a Woman --Abigail Carney181Interview with Harsh Crowd182INDEX B: Sightings of Utopia187About the Editors188