Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt, 1996-2007

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.

Environmental advocate and author Van Jones called LiP “One of the finest political publications in the country, and I recommend it for your mental a

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.

Environmental advocate and author Van Jones called LiP “One of the finest political publications in the country, and I recommend it for your mental and political self-defense. Fiercely intelligent, uncompromising, always well-written, witty and often wickedly funny, LiP‘s frequently surprising explorations of race, class, hierarchy, kinship and ecology consistently go beyond mere critique and into the realm of the truly useful.”

The collection 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.

Editor Brian Awehali is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in or on The Guardian, Britannica.com, Z Magazine, AlterNet, Tikkun, The Black World Today, and High Times.