Love and Lightning
A Collection of Queer-Feminist Manifestos

- Forthcoming: expected June 2025. You can pre-order this title in our webshop. As soon as the book is available, we will dispatch your order.
- Solidarity, imagination and change
Redactie: Sarah van Binsbergen, Jessica Gysel, Sara Kaaman
Bijdragen: onder andere de volgende manifestos: Ain’t I a Woman by Soujourner Truth; Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine de Saint Pont; Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto; Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey; The Manukan Declaration of the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network; W.I.T.C.H. Manifesto; Fag Hags Fight Back!!!; Manifesto for Maintenance Art by Mierle Laderman-Ukeles; Dyke Manifesto from the Lesbian Avengers; I want a president by Zoe Leonard; Killjoy Manifesto by Sarah Ahmed; Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks; The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto from Sandy Stone; Refugia! Manifesto for Becoming Autonomous Zones by subRosa; Countersexual Manifesto from Paul B. Preciado; and many, many more.
Partner: Girls Like Us Magazine
Ontwerp: Lotte Lara Schröder
Info: forthcoming, expected May 2025, PLURAL series, 256 pp, pb, Eng, 23 x 17 cm (h x w), June 2025, ISBN 978-94-93246-47-8, € 27,50
Love and Lightning: A Collection of Queer-Feminist Manifestos is a thematically ordered, inconclusive collection of queer, feminist and queer-feminist manifestos. Girls Like Us Magazine and author Sarah van Binsbergen have composed a publication showcasing the different forms a manifesto might have, from classical, activist formats to more poetic, associative texts. The manifestos highlighted in this book cross borders, forms and disciplines, refuse binary logics, transcend our concepts of time and space and surpass the neoliberal logic.
Love and Lightning does not claim to be a complete, but it rather aims to show the myriad of ways manifestos can be composed, and what their legacy until this day is. It presents manifestos from 1913 until now, divided into eleven chapters, introduced in their socio-historical and geographical contexts, with many from Asia, Africa, Latin-America. Not only does this publication give new insight in the style of the manifesto, it aims to emancipate the reader to propose their own revolution, whether big or small.