Jenny Brown is the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&amp;p=998">BIRTH STRIKE: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work</a>&nbsp;(PM Press, 2019) and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3095-without-apology">Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now</a>&nbsp;which was released by Verso on October 1.

Jenny Brown

Meredith R. Goldsmith is an adjunct professor in Los Angeles teaching courses in modern and contemporary art history, humanities, and visual and cultural studies. She holds a PhD in Visual Studies from University of California, Irvine. She researches and writes on intersections of work and professionalisms, art, and institutions.

Meredith Goldsmith

Anna Kryczka teaches humanities full-time at Pasadena City College. PCC, her teaching emphasizes the legacies of colonialism, theories of race, and conceptions of gender difference in media, culture, and politics. Kryczka earned her PhD in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. Her research has been published in in the journals of&nbsp;Visual Studies&nbsp;and History and Technology&nbsp;and in her 2014 book,&nbsp;Learning by Doing at the Farm: Craft, Science, and Counterculture in Modern California. She has presented at various academic conferences and museums on topics on including Martha Stewart’s 1982 debut book, the politics of citrus cultivation in Orange County, Jacqueline Kennedy’s 1962 TV tour of the White House, the development of the Southern California desert, Julia Child’s slapstick pedagogy, and the sexuality of the postwar motel, among other things. She served as an Academic Juror for the 2016 Peabody Awards Screening Committee.&nbsp;

Anna Kryczka

Catherine Liu is most recently author of Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (University &nbsp;of Minnesota Press, 2021). Author of two academic monographs, Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton and American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique, she has also published a novel called Oriental Girls Desire Romance. President of the Western Humanities Alliance, she edited a special issue of the Western Humanities Review (2016) on the topic of Prestige. She is at work on a memoir called Panda Gifts, and is a contributor to Liza Featherstone's collection False Choices: the Faux Feminism of Hillary Clinton. Her interest in the populist rebellion against the Professional Managerial Class seems to have been redeemed by recent events.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Catherine Liu

Letter to the Editor: Jenny Brown Responds to “Anti-Labor Politics”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Jenny Brown is the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&amp;p=998">BIRTH STRIKE: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work</a>&nbsp;(PM Press, 2019) and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3095-without-apology">Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now</a>&nbsp;which was released by Verso on October 1.