feminist theory

How to Read Lauren Berlant: ‘On The Inconvenience of Other People’

How to Read Lauren Berlant: ‘On The Inconvenience of Other People’

Lauren Berlant’s oeuvre provokes ambivalence. As with their posthumous collection On The Inconvenience of Other People I consume Berlant, and Berlant consumes me.

Learn from Your Female Elders: Read Feminism’s Forgotten Fight

Learn from Your Female Elders: Read Feminism’s Forgotten Fight

When progressives adopt an ahistorical critique of feminism, they risking aiding and abetting its subversion. Historian Kirsten Swinth offers a remedy with Feminism's Forgotten Fight.