Picador has just released a revised 20th anniversary edition of Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards’s classic Third Wave feminist text, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.
Twenty years ago, I was at the Rockgrl conference in Seattle with a colleague to work on our book, Girls Rock! Fifty Years of Women Making Music.
Two young feminists were there promoting their brand-new book. We struck up a conversation in the hallway, and soon I invited Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards to come and speak at my university.
The friendship has lasted—and so has their book.
When Manifesta was first released in 2000, it was a groundbreaking account of feminist struggles at the turn of the millennium. Now it’s an essential feminist text.
In recognition of the new edition, I talked to Jennifer and Amy about their lives, Manifesta and feminism across the…
