Tipping the Sacred Cow
is a flabbergastingly refreshing smarty-pants collection of iconoclastic politics, culture, sex, and humor culled from the uncompromising, eclectic, and frequently laugh-out-loud pages of
LiP Magazine
. Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz describes
LiP
as “Marvelous! . . . Witty, but substantial . . . there's simply nothing that comes close to it in the culture today."
Gleefully skewering shibboleths across the political continuum, the radical brain trust gathered here by editor Brian Awehali takes critical aim at everything from women-first feminism, green capitalism, and queer assimilation and gay marriage as participatory patriarchy, to the uses and abuses of shoplifting, the currently fashionable cult of catastrophism, and the prefabrication of political speech. Between broadsides, stops are made for a lively community flag burning, intentionally comedic genderqueer erotica, and other items of pointed mirth.
Contributors include Lisa Jervis, Winona LaDuke, Tim Wise, Heather Rogers, Iain Boal, Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Neal Pollack, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Michael Eric Dyson, damali ayo, Tim Kreider, Christopher Hitchens, and Mary Roach, among others.
Brian Awehali
is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in or on Britannica.com,
Z Magazine
, AlterNet,
Tikkun
, The Black World Today, and
High Times
. He is a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, but makes his home in Oakland, California. Under his editorial guidance,
garnered a host of awards and nominations, including Best Online Cultural Coverage and Best New Title from
Utne
, People's Choice from South by Southwest, Best Magazine from
Clamor Magazine
, Best Political Magazine from
East Bay Express
, and two Project Censored selections.