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  • The Non-Sexist City

    The Non-Sexist City

    Leslie Kern asks how we can create a feminist city and what tools women can use to support each other.

  • Photo: English Collective of Prostitutes

    Cops, Borders, and Carceral Feminists

    'Carceral feminism has gained popularity even though the police – and the wider criminal justice system – are key perpetrators of violence against women.' 

  • Chi Chang, on the right, with Ching Siu Ling and Hua Feng Liu, in Spain, 1938. (Courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives)

    Chi Chang: A Chinese American Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War

    Chi Chang, a Chinese emigrant to the United States who joined the Communist Party and volunteered for the International Brigades to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. His story is retold here by Hwei-Ru Tsou and Len Tsou, and translated into English from the original Chinese by Agnes Khoo.

  • Postcard, School of Embroidery, Algiers (1905).

    Letter to Sylvia Wynter

    In an open letter to theorist Sylvia Wynter on Wynter's text "1492: A New World View," Ariella Aïsha Azoulay  retrieves memories of her Jewish family's Arabness: "I refuse to become a memory-less Jew, whose life was mutated and reformatted to begin only with the creation of the nation-state."

  • Welcome to the Verso Book Club!

    Welcome to the Verso Book Club!

    Receive ALL of our new ebooks every month as well as one or more new books in the mail. Now at a discount of 50% to celebrate Verso’s 50th year, all subscribers will also get 50% off ALL of our books.

  • Women against the sex offense regime

    Women against the sex offense regime

    What about the role of women in the Sex Offense movement and their relationship to feminism, victims’ rights organizations, and survivors themselves? That role and that relationship are surprising and complex. For while there are many men in both the leadership and the rank and file—and of course, the objects of the laws are almost all men—the registrants’ rights movement is a women’s movement.