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Learn moreJournalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state.
For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.
Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times, Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now--for each of us, and for all that’s at stake.
With an abolitionist lens, journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung shows how domestic abuse and state violence are systemic and interconnected. She shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a “private matter” perpetrated by individual bad actors--and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics. Cheung explores:
- The links between capitalism and domestic abuse: how late-stage capitalism colludes with the state to incentivize forced birth and reproductive coercion
- Intimate partner violence as a tool of political silence and social control
- America’s tacit acceptance of sexual assault, from the home to the White House
- The interplay of race, power, gender, and sexuality in state-based violence
- How the United States runs on carcerality, and what that means for victims
- The way we view survival crimes, and our complicity in defining which acts are “violent” and whose actions are “criminal”
- How white feminism and carceral feminism fail us all
From TI 9781623179083 TR.
KYLIE CHEUNG is a staff writer at Jezebel, where she reports on gender, power, and identity at the intersections of culture and politics. She was previously a staff writer at the culture desk at Salon, and for six years, she reported on these topics as a freelance writer with bylines in Teen Vogue, Dame Magazine, Bitch Media, Alternet, Wear Your Voice, Feministing, and other publications. Cheung is the author of two prior books of feminist essays, The Gaslit Diaries (2018) and A Woman’s Place (2020). Prior to her journalism career, Cheung worked for and organized with leading reproductive justice organizations, including the National Network of Abortion Funds, Reproaction, and NARAL. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her pit bull-chihuahua, Bucky.
From TI 9781623179083 TR.
DANA WING LAU is a multi-hyphenate creator and storyteller. She loves applying her bright voice to YA and MG genres, but can’t wait to narrate more Thriller/Suspense and all things Romance. She loves voicing characters that are complex, resilient, a little messy and who find their inner strength. Dana has two decades worth of creating on stage and screen. As a host and spokesperson, she has an aptitude for bringing facts, medical, and technical jargon to life in a conversational manner. She loves using her voice to bring a compelling point of view to memoir and uses her storytelling ability to hone in on the “why” in non-fiction. As a producer, she focuses her creative work on bringing the stories of marginalized Americans to light. When she is not reading (and listening) to books, Dana is living up to her self-proclaimed “food monster” moniker by baking and feeding people while dancing in her kitchen to 90s and 2000s hip-hop and wrangling her muggle husband.
KYLIE CHEUNG is a staff writer at Jezebel, where she reports on gender, power, and identity at the intersections of culture and politics. She was previously a staff writer at the culture desk at Salon, and for six years, she reported on these topics as a freelance writer with bylines in Teen Vogue, Dame Magazine, Bitch Media, Alternet, Wear Your Voice, Feministing, and other publications. Cheung is the author of two prior books of feminist essays, The Gaslit Diaries (2018) and A Woman’s Place (2020). Prior to her journalism career, Cheung worked for and organized with leading reproductive justice organizations, including the National Network of Abortion Funds, Reproaction, and NARAL. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her pit bull-chihuahua, Bucky.
From TI 9781623179083 TR.
DANA WING LAU is a multi-hyphenate creator and storyteller. She loves applying her bright voice to YA and MG genres, but can’t wait to narrate more Thriller/Suspense and all things Romance. She loves voicing characters that are complex, resilient, a little messy and who find their inner strength. Dana has two decades worth of creating on stage and screen. As a host and spokesperson, she has an aptitude for bringing facts, medical, and technical jargon to life in a conversational manner. She loves using her voice to bring a compelling point of view to memoir and uses her storytelling ability to hone in on the “why” in non-fiction. As a producer, she focuses her creative work on bringing the stories of marginalized Americans to light. When she is not reading (and listening) to books, Dana is living up to her self-proclaimed “food monster” moniker by baking and feeding people while dancing in her kitchen to 90s and 2000s hip-hop and wrangling her muggle husband.
Reviews
“By identifying rape culture’s political, systemic roots—omnipresent regardless of political affiliation—Cheung provides the anticapitalist analysis lost when the mainstreaming of #MeToo led to a whitewashed movement.”—Lexi McMenamin, news and politics editor at Teen Vogue
“Cheung skillfully dissolves the veil between the personal and political ... and the result is shattering, even for those who are deeply familiar with these issues. This is an urgent read.”
—Becca Andrews, author of No Choice
“A must-read analysis of the devastating impact gender-based violence plays in upholding white
male supremacy.”
—Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America
“Cheung exposes how domestic abuse and sexual violence targeting women of Asian descent is
frequently overlooked, downplayed, and rendered invisible. A compelling and important book for these times.”
—Michele Goodwin, author of Policing the Womb, host of Ms. magazine’s On the Issues podcast, and Chancellor’s Professor at UC Irvine School of Law
“Survivor Injustice is beautifully threaded with Kylie Cheung’s lived experience, depth of knowledge, and expertise. Kylie creates an easy-to-follow roadmap, helping readers to understand how we got here and where we’re going. This book could not be more timely and powerful. As a survivor, I felt so seen and held in Kylie’s words. If you are a survivor yourself, or you love a survivor, this book is for you.”
—Alison Turkos, survivor-activist
“Survivor Injustice connects the dots between gender violence—both inter-personal and structural—and urgent threats to American democracy. Drawing on her years of reporting and her personal experiences, Cheung is an expert yet accessible and engaging guide through complex terrain.”
–Alexandra Brodsky, cofounder of Know Your IX and author of Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash
“An essential commentary on how American capitalism, the carceral system, voter suppression, and white supremacy entangle themselves in service of maintaining power and control over women, and in particular women and gender-expansive people of color. At once incisive and devastating, personal and communal, this book lays a foundation for a future in which our collective survival is not bound up with the very systems that exploit, pathologize, and denigrate our experiences and identities but is rather led by a vision of justice that values and honors the complexities, subtleties, and nonlinearity of survivors’ lives and truths.”
—Dana Sussman, deputy director of PregnancyJustice
“Kylie Cheung is at the height of her powers with Survivor Injustice. By turns personal and political, journalist and Gen Z feminist Cheung expertly and persuasively draws the connections between domestic abuse and state-based violence, interrogates the white-washing of Asian American women and girls from the conversation about victimhood, and reveals the ways we as a society criminalize people of color and women and girls. This is an urgent, must-read call to action.”
—Kera Bolonik, editor in chief of DAME magazine and author of the forthcoming book Gullible Expand reviews