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Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos

Editors

Sarah van Binsbergen, Liz Allan, Jessica Gysel, and Sara Kaaman

Date

2025

Publisher

Valiz

Format

Monographs

ISBN

978-94-93246-47-8

Size

17.5 × 23.5 × 4 cm

Length

480 pp

Genre

Manifesto, Activism, Monograph, Queer Art & Artists, Feminist Theory

Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and 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 & Lightning does not claim to be a complete anthology, 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 1851 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.