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Truth to Power

A BOOK is a timeless medium that can’t be hacked, surveilled, or used to co-opt movements—as political and insurgent now as it was when the printing press was invented. But too often the stories we’re allowed to tell are dictated by an exclusionary canon, upholding a select few voices and silencing alternatives. At the Feminist Press (FP), the longest-running women’s publishing house in the world, we’re authoring a new story of power in our industry, our culture, our country, and beyond.

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