Ash Sarkar’s book bundle contains her 2025 highlights traversing identity politics, feminist theory and the gaze of a porn-influenced pop culture. This collection features Ash’s own bestselling debut Minority Rule alongside Shon Faye’s Love in Exile and Sophie Gilbert’s Girl on Girl. Both writers have been featured across Ash’s 2025 Downstream and If I Speak content, offering a launchpad of discussions on many pressing themes set to define the 21st century.

Minority Rule - Ash Sarkar

Minority rule (noun): an irrational fear fuelled by right-wing pundits, lobby journalists and billionaires, that minority groups are displacing majority populations.

Our world is defined by inequality, insecurity, lack of community and information overload. As the world burns, mega-corporations are reporting record profits. How are they getting away with it? In this eye-opening debut, Ash Sarkar reveals how minority elites rule majorities by creating the culture wars that have taken over our politics, stoking fear and panic in our media landscape.

Most crucially, she shows us how what we really have in common is being concealed by a deafening culture of distraction – and that the first step towards a better future is understanding what is happening now, and how we got here.

Love in Exile - Shon Faye

Shon Faye’s experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her quiet obsession with the feeling that love was not for her. As she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realise that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture.

Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless; in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. Love in Exile posits love’s boundaries as something far broader than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.

Girl on Girl - Sophie Gilbert

Despite decades of progress, the gains of the feminist movement feel more fragile than ever. But as Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert points out, this is not a unique moment. Feminism felt just as fragmented in the early 2000s, when the momentum of third-wave feminists and riot grrrls was squashed by lad culture and the commodification of Girl Power.

Casting her eye across pop culture of the past thirty years – from Madonna, the Spice Girls and the Kardashians, to MySpace, #GirlBoss and Real Housewives – Sophie Gilbert reveals a toxic pattern of progress and misogynistic backlash. Girl on Girl shows how every form of media, heavily influenced by the rise of porn, has shaped and warped women’s relationships with themselves and other women.