The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad by Derrick Jensen

The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad by Derrick Jensen

The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to chat, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realize that they've all survived rape--and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle becomes the Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad. They declare open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.

A cop is stabbed through a doughnut hole and into his heart. A country-western singer is found with knitting needles jammed into both ears and his no-means-yes hit song playing. A pedophile priest is killed in the sacristy. As the Circle swells, perpetrators learn to shudder at the sight of business women with knitted briefcases, students with knitted backpacks, roller derby queens with knitted kneepads. They also push back, as organizations of men--from the Chamber of Commerce to the Department of Agriculture to the Autonomous Federated Association of Coalitions of Anarchists for Spontaneous Insurrectionary Sexual Freedom (the AFACASISF, with their unique musical style: deathvomitnoise)--issue statements against the Knitting Circle. More sinister is MAWAR (Men Against Women Against Rape), with their Bible Scrabble and their beefcake Jesus calendar--and a plot to stop the Knitting Circle.

Will the Knitting Circle triumph? Or will Officer Flint learn to knit in time to infiltrate it? Will Nick the male ally brave Daisy's Craft Barn to secure more weapons for the women? Will Marilyn put down her teenage attitude and pick up her knitting needles? Will Circle member Jasmine find true love with MAWAR's Zebediah?

Since 1992, STEPHANIE MCMILLAN has been a political cartoonist. She self-publishes Code Green, a weekly editorial cartoon about environmental crises, and writes the Universal Uclick comic strip Minimum Security five days a week. StephanieMcMillan.org has both of these resources. Her award-winning cartoons have appeared in a variety of newspapers around the world, including the Los Angeles Times, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Daily Beast, and Yes! Magazine. Since the early 1980s, McMillan has been an activist on topics such as imperialist war, immigrant rights, police brutality, and women's reproductive freedom.

She is currently a member of One Struggle, an anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist group. McMillan has spoken at political gatherings like the Left Forum and Sierra Summit, as well as on radio shows like Terra Verde and Air America's Ring of Fire. She was given the Robert F. Kennedy Award. Her comics in The Beginning of the American Fall won the Kennedy Journalism Prize.

McMillan is a Florida resident.