Feminist Sweepstakes is the second studio album by American dance-punk band Le Tigre. It was released on October 16, 2001 by record label Mr. Lady. Feminist Sweepstakes is Le Tigre's first album to feature JD Samson as a member of the band. She had previously worked with the band as a roadie and the operator of former member Sadie Benning's slide show during live performances in support of their first record. The album title "Feminist Sweepstakes" was explained by JD Samson: "The idea came to us when pondering the idea of what a feminist Easter basket may look like. We began planning a basket of goodies that would be a prize that could be won by an unsuspecting record buyer. Soon enough, after bouncing the word sweepstakes around, we looked up 'sweepstakes' in the dictionary and there was instant gratification. A sweepstakes is a contest in which the members of the contest put together their own (be it money or objects, etc.) in order to come out with a large winning of some sort for the prize winner. For us, the feminist sweepstakes is the life we live as feminists (for one) every feminist gives her/his own to the rest of the community, and each person then is able to have the collective power of feminism itself. And number two, each song then becomes a prize for each willing/winning listener." "F.Y.R.", which stands for "Fifty Years of Ridicule", is one of the album's faster songs. The song name is a reference to the book The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone,