"... a breath of fresh air in a time when inquisitorial constraints
seem to have the whip hand whichever way we turn.... Lola writes in the
first person with a simplicity that makes you feel good...; her message
is healthy, invigorating–may it free us from the ambient Jesuitism."
–Jean-Claude Leroy, author Médiapart
"Lola lives revolt: anarchism, Situationist International,
libertarian communism, 'outer left'... action committees, Women's
Liberation Movement (MLF), Homosexual Revolutionary Action Front (FHAR),
Gouines Rouges (Red Dykes), Les Gazolines.... Communal apartments,
scandals, doing drugs (joints and acid–but no needles), dérives,
living from odd jobs and expedients, drinking, making love/fucking
(where was the dividing line?), networking, traveling to find friends
and comrades (but no hippy trail to Katmandu–that would be a copout),
and ever ready for action but never lapsing into militantism ("the
highest stage of alienation")."
–Gilles Dauvé, author of Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex
"In the summer of 2020 some twenty-five million people came out into
the streets of the USA under the banner of Black Lives Matter. Could
this unprecedented–and multicultural–display prefigure the transcendence
of an identity politics which, for all its victories in the maistream,
has plagued and scattered the universalizing radical energy of
the '1960s'? Whatever the answer, Lola Miesseroff's provocative book
cannot fail to fuel this cardinal debate."
–Dave Barbu
"Now that our zones of freedom have ossified, this book of Lola's is a
precious manual, a fine guide showing how to combine political activism
and personal liberation."
–Hélène Hazera