Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt remembers Stonewall
Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling on color, the sublime, and painting paradox
Point Blank
The gun and the readymade
A LANGUAGE OF ONE’S OWN
Negar Azimi on the art of Lydia Ourahmane
Bah Lumbung
Kristian Vistrup Madsen at Documenta 15
Unhappy Together
Stanley Kwan’s Rouge and the end of history
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PRINT February 2018
SERIOUS SEX BATTLE
Sarah Nicole Prickett
This week, the editors revisit writer Sarah Nicole Prickett’s “Serious Sex Battle,” published in February 2018.
“A preference for death over captivity spurs radical movement,” Prickett declares in her virtuosic, gimlet-eyed essay on a woman of inordinate strength. “Serious Sex Battle” is a feminist genealogy, but it’s also a strong theory for how to outmaneuver reactionaries. Legerity is essential; so is an alert refusal of your enemy’s terms. As Prickett argues, “The heroine we need is against the hero. The antagonist. She remains outside.” —David Velasco
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A WOMAN OF INORDINATE STRENGTH
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