The Feminist Utopia Project

Table of Contents:
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 the Author :
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.

Review :
Praise for The Feminist Utopia Project "Wildly creative." —Kirkus "A joyful cacophony of voices offering playful, earnest, challenging, and hopeful versions of our collective future in the form of creative nonfiction, fiction, visual art, poetry, and more." —Library Journal “The Feminist Utopia Project is an incredible addition to the feminist canon. With contributions from some of the most important voices in gender justice, this book looks to the future with optimism, strength, and intelligence. Your feminist library is not complete without it.” —Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes "The collection's diverse visions and the applause-worthy, rallying intro prove that we might not have to wait for these dreams to become real."—BUST “The imaginative and exhilarating artwork, stories, and essays here are smart, funny, moving, significant—and inspire hope for what might be.” —T Cooper, author of Changers "Brodsky and Nalebuff have captured the vibrancy that is currently infusing a new generation of feminists, while challenging the limitations still informed by politics and history." —Booklist “This remarkable collection of essays, stories, and artwork showcases multiple ways in which feminists have and continue to struggle for equality and a just society. Brodsky and Nalebuff have created a collection of highly readable interpretations of feminist utopias as they emerge from a wide array of perspectives, including women's political standpoints, their ethnic and racial situations, sexual preferences, and class positions. Taken together these brilliant and beautifully crafted essays signal new and radical directions in feminism. The Feminist Utopia Project is essential reading for anyone who has ever imagined a better world.” —Crystal N. Feimster, author of Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching "This book shows a state-of-the-art feminism where human experience meshes with institutional policy and public life." —Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick "How beautiful! Here, you can taste, touch, speak, hear, see, and feel liberation. Our journey toward justice is lifelong--the fierce stories in this book light the path." —Joanne N. Smith, executive director Girls for Gender Equity “The voices in this volume are high voltage—full of youth, determination, and power.”—Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones