Join preeminent Joanna Russ scholar Alec Pollak in celebrating the publication of a new critical edition of ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD, out now from Feminist Press. Pollak will be joined in conversation by Jeffry Iovannone to discuss Russ’s legacy and delve into her experience in republishing this “curious and powerful revolutionary work.” (—Alison Bechdel)

ALEC POLLAK is a writer, academic, and organizer. She is the winner of the 2023 Hazel Rowley Prize and the 2018 Ursula Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship for her work on a biography of Joanna Russ. Her writing appears in the LA Review of Books, the Yale Review, and various academic publications. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.

JOANNA RUSS (1937–2011) was a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of feminist science fiction, fantasy, and literary criticism. Born in New York City, Russ graduated from Cornell University in 1957 and held teaching appointments in English and creative writing across the country until settling at the University of Washington in 1977. A historic, groundbreaking writer of feminist science fiction, she is best known for her novel The Female Man and now for her darkly funny survey of literary sexism, How to Suppress Women’s Writing.