Guy Stevenson

Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary and Goldsmiths colleges, London

Guy Stevenson teaches literature at Queen Mary and Goldsmiths colleges in London. His book Anti-Humanism in the Counter-Culture came out in 2020, and he is currently working on another book about the legacy of the 1960s.

Written by Guy Stevenson

Black and white photo of protesters holding a banner saying “DON’T CRY: RESIST!” on a city street in the rain.

The origin story of a slogan, ‘the personal is political’

What the radical-feminist origins of the slogan ‘the personal is political’ can tell us about language in our own divided age

by Guy Stevenson