For ICA LA’s Bookshelf Residency, Feminist Press celebrates fifty-five years of publishing with an Annex Gallery project titled Timeline (November 22, 2025 – March 1, 2026) — a visual history that includes key publishing milestones and anniversaries from its founding in Maryland in 1970 to a speculated ideal future of 2070. The timeline features books and objects to present a journey through the press’s publishing program titles and its people; day to day work and communications; and the history of women and gender studies as a discipline.

Timeline combines a visual history of Feminist Press, including key publishing milestones and anniversaries, from its founding in Maryland in 1970 to a speculated ideal future of 2070. The timeline is paired with books and objects from throughout Feminist Press’s past, presenting a journey both through our publishing program, both its titles and its people, its day to day work and communications, and the history of women’s and gender studies as a discipline. A small bookshelf with FP titles invites readers browse, to sit down on the nearby gallery benches, and to lose themselves in our titles, in keeping with our editorial vision: to create a world where everyone recognizes themself in a book.

Visitors will discover books by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Paule Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Violette Leduc, Barbara Molinard, Shahrnush Parsipur, Paul B. Preciado, Julián Delgado Lopera, Brontez Purnell, Justin Vivian Bond, Louise Meriwether, Michelle Tea, Megan Milks, Ariel Gore, Terezka Torres, Valerie Taylor, Bishakh Som, and many more. Also on view are archive photos, documents, rare and foreign editions, and other artifacts from Feminist Press’s illustrious history and foundational work for the future.