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Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this quarrel- some sisterhood, you'll find ACT UP's Queer Nation Manifesto, Emma Goldman's 1896 Anarchy and the Sex Question, Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto and The Combahee River Collective Statement
Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction. The Bleeding Edge: On the Necessity of Feminist Manifestos
- Breanne Fahs
A Note on Source Material
I. QUEER/TRANS
Introduction to Queer/Trans
1. I Want a President (1992)
- Zoe Leonard
2. Queer Nation Manifesto: Queers Read This (1990)
- ACT UP
3. The Woman Identified Woman (1970)
- Radicalesbians
4. Dyke Manifesto (1992)
- Lesbian Avengers
5. Do Approach (excerpt) (1971)
- Jill Johnston
6. Gay Liberation Front Manifesto (excerpt) (1971)
- Gay Liberation Front
7. The Effeminist Manifesto (1973)
- Steven F. Dansky, John Knoebel and Kenneth Pitchford
8. Undoing Borders: A Queer Manifesto (excerpt) (2007)
- HAVOQ
9. The Transfeminist Manifesto (excerpt) (2001)
- Emi Koyama
10. Pajama Femme Manifesto (2011)
- Katie Tastrom
11. Lesbian Mafia Manifesto (2007)
- The Lesbian Mafia
12. Boyfunk Manifesto (2002)
- Boyfunk
13. Manifesto for a New Feminist Presence (2007)
- Eskalera Karakola
II. ANTICAPITALIST/ANARCHIST
Introduction to Anticapitalist/Anarchist
14. Anarchy and the Sex Question (1896)
- Emma Goldman
15. Call to Women's International Strike (2017)
- Ni Una Menos (Not One Less)
16. Wages against Housework (1974)
- Silvia Federici
17. The Singles Manifesto (1974)
- Marie Edwards
18. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (excerpt) (2015)
- Laboria Cuboniks
19. Anarchafeminist Manifesto (1982)
- Anarchafeminist International
20. American Beasts (2017)
- D.M.D.
21. Radical Women Manifesto Platform (excerpt) (1967/2001)
- Radical Women
22. Refugia: Manifesto for Becoming Autonomous Zones (2002)
- subRosa
23. Altwoke Manifesto (2017)
- Anonymous
24. A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (2010)
- Lindsey German and Nina Power
III. ANGRY/VIOLENT
Introduction to Angry/Violent
25. I Am as Strong as Any Man (1851)
- Sojourner Truth
26. Redstockings Manifesto (1969)
- Redstockings
27. The Feminist Manifesto (1914)
- Mina Loy
28. SCUM Manifesto (1967)
- Valerie Solanas
29. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (excerpt) (1970)
- Shulamith Firestone
30. Intercourse (excerpt) (1987)
- Andrea Dworkin
31. Nope (2016)
- E. Jane
32. Grand Canyon (2004)
- Ani DiFranco
IV. INDIGENOUS/WOMEN OF COLOR
Introduction to Indigenous/Women of Color
33. The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
- Combahee River Collective
34. Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female (1970)
- Frances M. Beal
35. The Sisters Reply (1968)
- Patricia Haden, Sue Rudolph, Joyce Hoyt, Rita Van Lew, Catherine Hoyt, and Patricia Robinson
36. The Feminist Manifesto (1907)
- He-Yin Zhen
37. Zapatista Women's Revolutionary Laws (1994)
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Zapatistas)
38. The Black Movement and Women's Liberation (1970)
- Linda La Rue
39. Not Murdered, Not Missing: Rebelling against Colonial Gender Violence (2014)
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
40. Manifesto of the Erased: Mujeres, Decolonize El Dios Americano (2015)
- Crystal Zaragoza
41. The Wild Poet's Manifesto (2012)
- Susan Hawthorne
42. Black Lives Matter Platform (2016)
- Black Lives Matter
V. SEX/BODY
Introduction to Sex/Body
43. Vaginal Orgasm as a Mass Hysterical Survival Response (1968)
- Ti-Grace Atkinson
44. Fat Liberation Manifesto (1973)
- Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran
45. Manifesto of the 343 (1971)
- Simone de Beauvoir
46. Ax Tampax Poem Feministo (1996)
- adee (The Bloodsisters Project)
47. Occupy Menstruation (2018)
- Susan Stenson
48. A Letter to the Man Who Tried to Rape Me (2016)
- Sara Roebuck
49. Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice (2015)
- Valerie Tarico
50. The Countersexual Manifesto (excerpt) (2000)
- Paul B. Preciado
51. Feminist Manifesto to Support the Rights of Sex Workers (n.d.)
- Feminists for Sex Workers
52. Masturbation Manifesto (1997)
- Betty Dodson
53. The GINK Manifesto (2010)
- Lisa Hymas
54. Futurist Manifesto of Lust (1913)
- Valentine de Saint-Point
VI. HACKER/CYBORG
Introduction to Hacker/Cyborg
55. A Cyborg Manifesto (excerpt) (1991)
- Donna Haraway
56. Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century (1991)
- VNS Matrix
57. cybertwee manifesto (2014)
- Gabriella Hileman, Violet Forest, and May Waver
58. Waging Peace on the Internet (2001)
- Oxblood Ruffin (Hacktivismo)
59. A Hacker Manifesto (Version 4.0) (2004)
- McKenzie Wark
60. Yes Manifesto (2004)
- Mette Ingvartsen
61. Radical Psychiatry Manifesto (1969)
- Claude Steiner
VII. TRASHY/PULP
Introduction to Trashy/Punk
62. RIOT GRRRL Manifesto (1991)
- Bikini Kill
63. To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disinherited, and Miserable (1884)
- Lucy E. Parsons
64. TRASHGiRRRRLLLZZZ: A Manifesto for Misfit ToYZ (2016)
- Elizabeth Broeder
65. Women's Art: A Manifesto (1973)
- VALIE EXPORT
66. The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto (1984)
- Bread and Puppet Theater
67. Pussy Manifesto (1999)
- Bitch and Animal
68. I Don't Want to Have to Compromise My Morals in Order to Make a Living (2013)
- Grimes
69. The People Behind the Mop Buckets (2015)
- Elizabeth Wallace
70. The Undercommons (2013)
- Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
71. Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto (excerpt) (2017)
- Jessa Crispin
VIII. WITCHY/BITCHY
Introduction to Witchy/Bitchy
72. W.I.T.C.H. Manifesto (1968)
- W.I.T.C.H.
73. BITCH Manifesto (1968)
- Joreen
74. Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013)
- Peter Grey
75. Funeral Oration for the Burial of Traditional Womanhood (1968)
- Kathie Amatniek Sarachild
76. Truisms (excerpt) (1978-1987)
- Jenny Holzer
77. A Manifesto (1970)
- Agnes Denes
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
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