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Climate breakdown is a crisis of power

Is Sexual Desire a Biological Drive?

Are we making women's interest in sex less, well, sexual?

Women, Fear, and Cities

We may not know exactly what a safe city looks like, but we know that it won’t rely on the police.

Catching History: Vigils, Riots and the Right to Protest

Connections between patriarchy, policing, and the failures of representational politics were brought into sharp focus last weekend by police violence at the vigil for Sarah Everard.

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

In this episode of the Verso podcast, Emma Dowling discusses her new book with Rachel Holmes.

The Forgotten Legacy of Claudia Jones: a Black Communist Radical Feminist

A forgotten radical, and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival.

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Emma Dowling examines the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties

Endless commodification, where problems and their solutions pop up on an ever-accelerating conveyor belt of lotions and potions, does little to tackle the underlying problems.

Defining the Patriarchal

In an excerpt from her new book, Nancy Folbre explains how patriarchy manifests in our political institutions, rights, and laws.

The Paris Commune and the Poetics of Martyrdom

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Owen Holland discusses socialist poetics in the time of the Commune.

Alternative Futures of the Paris Commune

Lizzie O'Shea reflects on the revolutionary vision of the Communards, 150 years after the establishment of the Paris Commune. 

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Judith Butler

“As a strategy of resistance and protest, nonviolence is often seen as passive and resolutely individual. Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.” – The New York Times

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Angela Y. Davis
“For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” – James Baldwin
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Tariq Ali
“Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist.” — Observer
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Arundhati Roy
“The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.” – Alice Walker
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Benedict Anderson
“Everything Anderson wrote was boldly original, challenging assumptions by uncovering a neglected or suppressed voice.” — Guardian
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Sophie Lewis

“Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for.” – Donna Haraway

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