Elizabeth Barber

  • *Ani Gurashvili, _Optical Illusion_, 2021*, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 35 1/2". © Ani Gurashvili, Courtesy Harkawik, New York.
    Culture September 6, 2022

    IN HER BOOK Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, published the winter after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election, Jessa Crispin made it clear that she wanted nothing to do with neoliberal girl-boss feminism, which she argued was toothless, counterrevolutionary, and “ended up doing patriarchy’s work.” She did, though, want to be part of something. Crispin concluded by calling for a movement in which people would “stop thinking so small,” “remember that our world does not have to be this way,” and “see beyond the structures we’ve been given.” Her new book, My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the