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PRAISE for LIBER: a Feminist Review:

"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 Weisen Cook

Volume 3: Issue 3

Summer 2025

Select articles available free below

On the cover: They call me Redbone, but I’d rather be Strawberry Shortcake, 2009, by Amy Sherald

Contents

DEPARTMENTS

Editors’ Letter 3.3

Poetry Comment 3.3

The Matter of the Patter

“New York Love Stories” on the Criterion Channel

  
Le Bonheur Bouquet

On the Sixtieth Anniversary of Agnès Varda’s “Le bonheur”

  
Primary Source

How Liz Wallace’s “The Rule” Became Alison’s “Bechdel Test”

  
Memory

“Liberation,” Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, NY
“Free to Be . . . You and Me: 50 Years of Stories and Songs,” The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA
“Macbeth in Stride,” Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Memoir

Sandwiches

  
Poetry

“Ash November” & “Minimalism”

  
Poetry

“Apprehension,” “Admission” & “Would Have”

  

REVIEWS

Know Thy Frenemy

“Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation” By Sophie Lewis

Walking the Talk

A Consideration of “Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel” by Loretta Ross

A Doom of One’s Own

“Spent: A Comic Novel” By Alison Bechdel

The Pass

“The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir” by Edmund White

O Mother, Where Art Thou

“Sad Tiger” by Neige Sinno, translated by Natasha Lehrer
“Consent” by Vanessa Springora, translated by Natasha Lehrer
“You Won’t Get Free of It” by Rachel Aviv
“Alice Munro’s Retreat” by Anne Enright
“My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with him” by Andrea Robin Skinner

Direct

“Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair” by Alexandra Seros

Origin Story

“Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe” by Heide Goettner-Abendroth

Bioluminescence

“The Mourner’s Bestiary” by Eiren Caffall

Jesus Christ!

“Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus” by Elaine Pagels

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