Read Our Zine
And contribute to the next one?
Plus: Our Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs book club starts this Sunday ✨ Cathy Reisenwitz reviews Joan Kennedy Taylor’s libertarian feminist classic, Reclaiming the Mainstream ✨ F4L at LibertyCon
Read — and write for?—our zine
The first issue of Reclaim, Feminists for Liberty zine, is now online. You can check out the whole thing in PDF form here.
We’ll be rolling out individual articles on our website over the next few weeks, starting with Cathy Reisenwitz’s review of Reclaiming the Mainstream—a 1992 book by author, activist, and public intellectual Joan Kennedy Taylor, who helped launch the Association of Libertarian Feminists and Feminists for Free Expression in the late 20th century. (Reclaiming the Mainstream was the subject of our very first Feminist’s for Liberty book club, last year, and you can watch a panel discussion about the book—featuring Reisenwitz, Taylor’s pal Walter Olson, and us—here.)
“Taylor writes with a stunning fairness,” writes Reisenwitz. “She could easily have written a polemic on why everyone should adopt an individualist feminism. … But instead she wrote an evenhanded, inclusive, short history of feminism which simply demonstrates through copious examples the ways individualist feminists made their mark on the debates of the day.”
We’re starting to put together our second issue of Reclaim and are looking for contributors. We’re seeking 1) short (350-words or less) reviews of cultural items (books, TV shows, podcasts, newsletters, films, albums, etc), 2) short (450 words or less) newsy pieces or op-eds on current events (trends; legislation; lawsuits; etc.), 3) personal essays (roughly 800 to 1,000 words), and 4) reported feature articles (roughly 1,000-2,500 words).
All contributors are paid (in general, $20-$60 for shorter news or review items; $100 for personal essays; and $150 – $250 for features).
We are especially interested in pieces that approach gender issues, education, parenting, sex and sexuality, pregnancy, abortion, women’s health, economic freedom, free speech, and criminal justice from a libertarian feminist angle.
To pitch us an idea or get more information, email feministsforliberty@gmail.com.
Our next book club starts on Sunday
We’re reading Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley. More info here. Sign up to participate here.
Our meetings for this book club will take place via zoom on Sundays throughout February at 8 pm EST.
We’ve got six book clubs planned for 2024—see the full schedule here.
Find us at the Students for Liberty conference
Feminists for Liberty will have a booth at LibertyCon, the Students for Liberty conference that takes place this upcoming weekend in Washington, D.C. F4L cofounder Kat Murti will be speaking on several panels, including “Don't Steal, the Government Hates Competition: How We Can End Civil Asset Forfeiture” (Saturday, 10 a.m.) , “Why Do Civilized Societies Still Have A Death Penalty?” (Saturday, 10:40 a.m.), and “Liberty's Dilemma: Fusionism, Culture Wars, and Conflicting Principles” (Saturday, 4 p.m.)
If you’re there, be sure to check out Kat’s panels and others from some amazing lady libertarian speakers, including Deirdre McCloskey’s “(True) Liberalism Caused the Great Enrichment” (Friday, 9 p.m.) , Jessica Melugin on the “Section 230 and the Defense of Free Speech” panel (Saturday, 11:20 a.m.), Katherine Mangu-Ward on the “Challenges of Journalism: Finding Truth In A Sea Of Opinion and Misinformation” panel (Saturday, 5:05 p.m.), Stephanie Slade’s “Against Game of Thrones Politics” (Saturday, 4 p.m.), and Shoshana Weissmann, Jo Jorgensen, and Emma Camp on the “Occupational Licensing: Begging the Government to Let You Do Your Job” panel (Sunday, 11 a.m.)
The full conference schedule is here.