A self-declared “third-wave feminist,” author Lauren O’Neill-Butler spent her 13 years as an editor at Artforum giving voice to the unheard. “There were a lot of artists who just weren’t having their say, who weren’t being represented in the magazine, or who didn’t like how they were represented,” she recalls. Nearly 90 of her subjects, the vast majority of whom were women, came together in her 2021 book, Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture (Karma): the earliest discussion is from 2007 — with Judy Chicago, when The Dinner Party (1979) opened at the Brooklyn Museum — while other interviewees include Adrian Piper, Donna J. Haraway, Howardena Pindell, Joan Jonas, and Claudia Rankine. O’Neill-Butler is also the cofounder of November, a nonprofit magazine that publishes rigorous interviews reflecting on how culture impacts the larger social, political, and economic fabric, while as a freelance writer she has contributed to Aperture, Bookforum, and The New York Times. In 2020, O’Neill-Butler received a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant to study global artistic activism in light of COVID and the opioid crisis, and she is also part-time faculty at Hunter College and the New School.