Reviews
"An invaluable reminder of feminism's radical and revolutionary visions. It's also, to those least inclined to read it but most in need of doing so, a powerful threat." --Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her "This exhilarating work of love and scholarship is a radiant gift to all who value liberation and justice. Reading it filled me with hope, inspiration and an electric connection to the angry, dissatisfied comrades who have come before me--as well my outraged contemporaries. A must-read, an antidote to powerlessness, a literary companion for the ages." --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "In an age of platitudes and etsy-fied feminist empowerment products, Breanne Fahs gives us the uncompromising, the unruly, the ungovernable, the unpalatable. This book is a fiery reminder that the world does not change, we change the world." --Jessa Crispin, author of The Dead Ladies Project "This text is important historically and as a handbook for understanding and organizing today. Fahs has put together a collection that runs from the immediate and practical to the futuristic and abstract. In doing so, she reminds us that radical feminism is both utopian vision and practical argument." --Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch "Any Gender Studies professor who isn't teaching this book is missing something important in their curriculum ... This book is a true feminism buffet, no matter what angle is of interest to you." --Megan Volpert, PopMatters "Learned and impassioned ... irreverent, scabrous and enraged, these manifestos also happen to be full of contradictions, written in the heat of the moment and without a cool eye to posterity. But it's this rough-hewn immediacy that makes some of them so bracing to read, especially now." --Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review "Powerful and inspiring." --Nina Burleigh, Air Mail "Magnificently cathartic ... a reminder of the power and importance of taking a position, asserting your rights and expressing them forcefully--and that we can take strength from these positions, appreciate them, disagree, and argue the nuances with equal force and passion." --Hettie Judah, i newspaper " Burn It Down sweeps through time and across the globe." --Frankie Miren, New Socialist "Any Gender Studies professor who isn't teaching Burn It Down! is missing something important in their curriculum." --Megan Volpert, PopMatters ("Best Books of 2020") "An essential text for any time, but especially this one." -- Jane Caputi, Journal of American Culture
