We’ve all been inundated these last months with news headlines about inflation, “quiet quitting,” and an absolutely religious devotion to the economy. Meanwhile, reality contradicts the sensationalism. Oil companies and grocery monopolies see record profits while we pay dearly for the essentials. Employees push back on the idea that they must sacrifice all to employers …
It’s been awhile, we know. In fact, we haven’t released a new Dead Feminists broadside in over a year—that’s the longest we’ve ever gone between releases, and International Women’s Day felt like the right time to come back. Despite our radio silence, there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes. We’ve pivoted several times, …
We are less than a week from Election Day, and just six weeks following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We are still in shock, mourning her loss. The grief is compounded and exacerbated by the continuing twin pandemics of COVID-19 and flagrant racism enflamed by the current administration. We started the Dead Feminists series …
Today, August 26, 2020, is Women’s Equality Day — and also the 100th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, when it became the law. We chose this anniversary to release our 30th Dead Feminists broadside: our series began with suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, after all. Yet we knew back in …
It feels weird to start a blog post in any sort of “normal” way right now. Thanks to the pandemic, it’s hard to know what to say. It also feels weird to open this like the thousands of Covid-era emails we’ve all received this year, like so many parallel-universe pandemic Hallmark cards: “Hope you’re safe …
This season we are celebrating the efforts of young, live feminists like Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier, India Logan-Riley, Isra Hirsi, Winnie Asiti, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, and many others. These young women are leading people of all ages and nationalities into the streets to demand decisive climate action from our world leaders. In solidarity with their efforts, …
This year we have been following current events with increasing dismay—lately it seems like women are embattled on every front. At the heart of every struggle are women telling their stories, testifying en masse to uncover and combat abuse, inequality, and the erosion of our civil rights. What is shocking is just how many women …
Midterm elections are looming, and we have a lot of work ahead of us. We knew right away that with this being an election year, we wanted to feature voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer for our next Dead Feminists broadside. But before long we realized that Hamer could carry us down the rabbit hole, …
Early this month we heard our book had moved from the shortlist to join the winners of the 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The awards, produced by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, recognize “excellence in writing, publishing, and illustration in the PNBA region.” The first requirement of winning is to, well, write some more. So we …
It has been more than a year since Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color was published. We are still surprised and delighted when new readers find the book and get inspired, especially when the world right now feels incredibly challenging. And while we continue to make new broadsides, we assume the book will quietly …