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Oct 22, 2026

Sara AhmedGUEST
10:51
And this book, No Exclamation Point, is the second monograph I've written on complaint.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:56
This one is a more accessible book published by Feminist Press.
Sara AhmedGUEST
11:00
But before that, in 2021, I published a Duke University Press book called Complaint Exclamation Point.
Sara AhmedGUEST
11:07
And, you know, it's been really, really helpful because when you send out this work, which is itself a collection of complaints, you get more complaints back.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:44
And this book, No Exclamation Point, is the second monograph I've written on complaint.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:50
This one is a more accessible book published by Feminist Press.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:53
But before that, in 2021, I published a Duke University Press book called Complaint Exclamation Point.
Sara AhmedGUEST
11:00
And, you know, it's been really, really helpful because when you send out this work, which is itself a collection of complaints, you get more complaints back.
Sara AhmedGUEST
9:44
And this book, No Exclamation Point, is the second monograph I've written on complaint.
Sara AhmedGUEST
9:49
This one is a more accessible book published by Feminist Press.
Sara AhmedGUEST
9:52
But before that, in 2021, I published a Duke University Press book called Complaint Exclamation Point.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:00
And, you know, it's been really, really helpful because when you send out this work, which is itself a collection of complaints, you get more complaints back.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:29
And this book, No Exclamation Point, is the second monograph I've written on complaint.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:34
This one is a more accessible book published by Feminist Press.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:37
But before that, in 2021, I published a Duke University Press book called Complaint Exclamation Point.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:44
And, you know, it's been really, really helpful because when you send out this work, which is itself a collection of complaints, you get more complaints back.
Jackson HowardGUEST
56:06
The best example, I think, I mean, Bronte's...
Jackson HowardGUEST
56:11
Purnell had an agent actually, but he was on Feminist Press, which is amazing, but tiny.
Jackson HowardGUEST
56:18
And gaining his trust was literally just like, I wrote him a fan letter and then he was like, let's FaceTime.
Jackson HowardGUEST
56:23
And then he stayed on my couch and it was a whole thing.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:09
And this book, No Exclamation Point, is the second monograph I've written on complaint.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:14
This one is a more accessible book published by Feminist Press.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:17
But before that, in 2021, I published a Duke University Press book called Complaint Exclamation Point.
Sara AhmedGUEST
10:25
And, you know, it's been really, really helpful because when you send out this work, which is itself a collection of complaints, you get more complaints back.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:14
And this book, No Exclamation Point, is the second monograph I've written on complaint.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:20
This one is a more accessible book published by Feminist Press.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:23
But before that, in 2021, I published a Duke University Press book called Complaint Exclamation Point.
Sara AhmedGUEST
12:30
And, you know, it's been really, really helpful because when you send out this work, which is itself a collection of complaints, you get more complaints back.
Margaret KilljoyHOST
64:14
And I have a new zine out.
Margaret KilljoyHOST
64:16
It's called The Folk Tales of Lowland Sacon, and it is a five-story set in the world of The Sapling Cage, but completely unrelated to the plot or time of The Sapling Cage, which is my trans-witch YA book that came out a couple years from Feminist Press.
Margaret KilljoyHOST
64:30
But this zine, it comes out from an anarchist collective publisher called Strangers in the Tangled Wilderness, which is at tangledwilderness.org, and it is only six bucks, which is real cheap for a piece of printed media, and it is...
Margaret KilljoyHOST
64:43
Just frankly, the prettiest thing that I've ever had my name on because it was made beautiful by a whole bunch of people, a whole bunch of people's work.
Claire WassermanHOST
0:16
Jamilah is a VP and executive editor at Random House.
Claire WassermanHOST
0:20
Before that, she ran the Feminist Press, where she was the youngest director in its history and the first woman of color to lead it.
Claire WassermanHOST
0:28
Gloria Steinem was her mentor, and then she became Gloria's editor.
Claire WassermanHOST
0:33
Jamilah and I get into where feminism stands now, which is not where any of us expected it to be, and then we get into money.

18 MINS LATER

Jamia WilsonGUEST
19:05
And that was the conversation that made me want to ask my mom about it and look at my grandmothers and more.
Jamia WilsonGUEST
19:12
And they said, "Oh, we are feminists, and in fact, we were working before most white women were working outside the home." And Black feminism has influenced a lot of what the modern-day feminist conversation is.
Jamia WilsonGUEST
19:24
And my mother gave me some books from the Feminist Press where I ended up going on to work at later and becoming the director of, that she read about Black feminism and the first Black feminist reader that Feminist Press did, But Some of Us Were Brave.
Jamia WilsonGUEST
19:39
And so I became very interested in all of this and devouring this content, devouring Gloria Steinem's books, devouring bell hooks.

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