Grace Byron

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Words: @thecut @bookforum @voguemagazine @friezeofficial @lareviewofbooks Debut novel Herculine forthcoming from @sagapressbooks Rep: Julia Masnik

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Articles

The dual voice of May Stevens

4 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Grace Byron

Between Guerrilla Girls activism and lyrical abstraction, Stevens's art, currently exhibited At Mary Ryan Gallery and Ryan Lee Gallery, reveals multiple paths for feminist expression The identity of the original Guerrilla Girls is still a hushed secret. An anonymous activist group that formed in 1985 to protest the lack of mainstream representation for women artists and is still active today, only a few members’ names are known—including the beguiling painter May Stevens (1924-2019).
Feminism Against Itself

4 weeks ago | thenation.com | Grace Byron

Books & the Arts / March 27, 2025 Feminism Against ItselfSophie Lewis proposes a reparative history in Enemy Feminisms that grapples with the ways the movement has harbored prejudices and abetted wrongdoing. Ad Policy (Vice Leaman) Every institution is prone to rot—even great causes like feminism.
How to Write a Post–Me Too Memoir

1 month ago | thecut.com | Grace Byron

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Ian Stearns Jamie Hood’s new book, Trauma Plot, flips the confessional memoir on its head. In her piercing account of learning to live in a world defined by sexual violence, Hood weaves her personal story with analysis of the way the “rape survivor” has been flattened into a cultural archetype: a tragic woman doomed to carry the weight of society’s ills.
5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

1 month ago | bookmarks.reviews | Grace Byron

“Theft, the first novel Gurnah has published since winning the Nobel, offers an example of such compassionate, revelatory seeing. Even the structure of this story works against the hierarchical nature of plot—that common sense that this character is central and those merely peripheral. There’s something almost disorienting about Gurnah’s narrative as he moves from one person to the next, willfully thwarting our desire to settle on a protagonist.
Joni Murphy’s Barbara

1 month ago | bombmagazine.org | Grace Byron

The characters in Barbara, Joni Murphy’s third novel, don’t eat. Not really. They drink coffee and wine, smoke cigarettes, and order dessert. They float through the 1950s and ’60s.
The Trans Cult Who Believes AI Will Either Save Us-or Kill Us All

1 month ago | thenation.com | Grace Byron |Edward Ongweso Jr

March 13, 2025 The Trans Cult Who Believes AI Will Either Save Us—or Kill Us AllWhat the Zizians, a trans vegan cult allegedly behind multiple murders, can teach us about radicalization and our tech-addled politics. Ad Policy The Zizians believe artificial intelligence will rule over humanity—but it could either be benevolent or evil. They believe their job is to ensure it’s the former.
Transness Gets Metaphorical in Torrey Peters’s Stag Dance

1 month ago | vulture.com | Grace Byron

When Detransition, Baby came out in 2021, Torrey Peters called her debut novel a trans Fleabag. The book’s premise — a trans woman, her ex who has detransitioned, and the ex’s new girlfriend all contemplate raising a baby together — certainly has the makings of a TV show. The national best seller turned Peters into the latest de facto face of trans lit, though she had already been a major figure in the DIY trans-lit scene.
Can Zohran Mamdani Really Win?

1 month ago | thenation.com | Grace Byron

Politics / March 11, 2025 Can Zohran Mamdani Really Win? The socialist New York City mayoral candidate has galvanized support with an energetic, creative campaign. Will it be enough? Ad Policy New York City’s next mayor? (Michael M. Santiago / Getty)There is one question everyone who runs for New York City mayor should be able to answer with finesse: What’s your bodega order? Zohran Mamdani’s is an egg-and-cheese on a jalapeno roll and coffee with a little bit of milk, no sugar.
Kilbourne: If Not to Give a Fantasy

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Grace Byron

Brooklyn-based DJ and musician Kilbourne’s new album, If Not to Give a Fantasy, growls with ecstatic violence. Frenetic as it feels, her industrial hardcore follows a simple method: louder, faster, harder. That could be a setup for monotony, but Kilbourne weaves in marimba, bird calls, and industrial trills to build an electronic orchestra. Despite the constraints of the genre—gravity-force four-on-the-floor, bare drones—her take on the sound is never boring.
Feminist Fascisms

1 month ago | thebaffler.com | Grace Byron

Like many, I first read Sophie Lewis after the publication of Abolish the Family, a tract supplementing her first book Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family. Abolish the Family traces historic movements for “care communization,” the ability of groups to function as networks of connection outside of the state and nuclear family, all while championing the liberation of children, queer kinship, and trans rights at a time when tradwives began to go viral on TikTok.