The work of mining Wittig’s vision for all it has to offer readers has barely scratched the surface of this oeuvre. Unfortunately few have dared to take up this call. Making creative use of every cultural material available from myths to science, Wittig’s work is both gender and genre-busting the gift to readers is a creative envisioning that opens out and calls for more.

The brilliance of Wittig’s work includes a deep attention to the ways that some of the smallest details of language constrain human potential-especially pronouns and articles. Guided by a materialist analysis and a profound sense of humor that is as compassionate as it is incisive, Wittig worked language the way a welder works metal-a brilliant mind burning white-hot bending language with a worker’s materialist sensibility to make space for those it would erase. More than 50 years ago Monique Wittig dared to envision a world beyond gender-not just as science fiction, but as a political movement articulated through literature and theory. The Social, Cultural, and Political Necessity of Anne SextonĪ Review of Donna Prinzmetal's Snow Whiteĭue Diligence (A.K.A. 'A Witch, A Cat Woman': Cat Woman's Patriarchal Roots Imagining Differently: Revisiting Radical Feminismįirst Responder Who Only Fainted During Training Videos Conversations with a Bee, a Lily, and a BearĪscension of St.

Wittig the straight mind