FemResThe Living Review

Issues

FemRes grows like a magazine: each issue gathers books, films, papers and voices around a single feminist theme.

  1. 07
    CurrentThe right to be unlikeable

    Why must she be likeable?

    Beginning with Unlikeable Female Characters, we revisit women who are angry, desirous, and unwilling to comply. Who sets the terms of likability—and when does rebellion reproduce someone else’s oppression?

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  2. 06
    Past issueSafety

    Does punishment make us safer?

    Beginning with Abolition. Feminism. Now., this issue moves between gender violence, policing, imprisonment and community accountability to ask: when the state promises safety through punishment, who becomes easier to surveil, criminalize and abandon? Can feminism imagine justice as supporting survivors, interrupting harm and changing the conditions that produce violence—not merely building larger cages?

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  3. 05
    Past issueFutures

    Who gets to imagine the future?

    Beginning with Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, this issue moves through climate breakdown, racial capitalism, care and community to ask: when crisis arrives unevenly, who is told to adapt alone, and who gets to seed another future?

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  4. 04
    Past issueIntimacy

    Are we really listening to one another?

    Across friendship, strained marriages, care, desire and departure, this issue treats intimacy as a political field: who has room to speak, whose silence is misread, and who is never heard.

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  5. 03
    Past issueThe body

    Who gets to define the body?

    From discipline and ageing to the internalised gaze, this issue follows the forces that watch, name and reclaim the body.

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  6. 02
    Past issueIdentity

    Who gets to say who we are?

    From gender identity to diaspora and migration, this issue asks how identities are assigned, contested, and rewritten on our own terms.

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  7. 01
    Past issueDomestic labor

    Who does the invisible work?

    Cooking, cleaning, care and emotional labor — this issue returns domestic and reproductive work to the political stage, and asks why it was ever treated as free and natural.

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