Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

"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

"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

"Editors' Choice"
--The 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, Best Books of 2020, PopMatters

"An essential text for any time, but especially this one."
--Jane Caputi, Journal of American Culture