
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
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.