Shock Treatment Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition [Paperback]

If you haven't read this book yet--buy it, take it home, and read it now! This is the work that made me get off my ass and actually do something, and it will inspire you, too. --Kathleen Hanna, singer, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin

I believe Karen Finley's un-careful rage was threatening because it is filled with grief, humor, and a profound passion for this life. Rereading it, I feel refreshed, as if I've been self-policing for years by tolerating boring, stupid things and now I'm free again. Thank you, Karen. --Miranda July, author ofThe First Bad Man

Shock Treatmentis as timely and crucial as ever, inspiring feminist rage and wildness just as when it first blew my mind twenty-five years ago. --Michelle Tea, author ofHow to Grow Up

Karen Finley is an iconoclast who, ironically, became an icon when her work inShock Treatmentwas targeted by right wing politicians. This important book is as necessary and vital today as it was twenty-years ago. --Sapphire, author ofPush, among other works

ReadingShock Treatmenttoday reminds me that Karen Finley has always been a writer of conscience. I remember seeing and hearing her read The Black Sheep off a piece of legal paper in the middle of a play at The Kitchen. No frills. She simply re-invented the poem. --Eileen Myles, author ofSnowflake/different streets

How exciting for you, me, Karen, and the world--to have an occasion to revisit this period of powerful and earth-shaking work. Culture wars? Those bastards had no idea what they were up against. --Justin Vivian Bond, author ofTango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

Finley’sShock Treatmentis more than just 'art.' It remains a searing and necessary indictment of America, a call to arms, a great protest against the injustices waged on queers and women during a time in recent American history where government intervention and recognition la