Feminist Formations

The spring issue of Feminist Formations is available both in print and online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52581 We are honored to feature the beautiful work of Palestinian visual artist Malak Mattar on our cover, "Last Night in Gaza." Mattar’s work focuses on liberation, decolonization, and Palestinian identity and politics. This issue bring together articles by Sarah Orsak, Allison M. Guess & Sarah Soanirina Ohmer, Myra J. Tait & Lorna Stefanick, Samantha Vandermeade, and Claudia Yaghoobi with Dilyana Mincheva, Niloofar Hooman, Yalda Hamidi, Yasamin Rezai, & Manijeh Moradian. We include book reviews by Nadine Shaanta Murshid, Eric Warren, and Dharmakrishna/Dharma Leria Mirza. And our Poesía features a new poem by Arielle Twist (George Gordon First Nation and Sipekne'katik First Nation, Cree). Twist is a Canadian-based interdisciplinary arist, author, and educator who blends poetics and visual modes of creation to explore the realities and legacy of Indigenous and Trans* life and grief.

Feminist Formations is edited by Patti Duncan, housed in the Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information, visit www.feministformations.org

Congratulations to Feminist Formation managing editor (and WGSS doctoral candidate), Miranda Findlay, who has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and S*xuality Studies at Ripon College! Miranda is currently completing her dissertation, "What Could Have Been: A Q***r Women of Color Feminist Textual Analysis of 'Woke' T.V." under the direction of Dr. Patti Duncan (committee chair), Dr. Susan Bernardin, Dr. Bradley Boovy, Dr. Spirit Brooks, and Dr. Mehra Shirazi, and will defend this spring. We will miss you but congrats, Miranda! 💜

Join us in welcoming our new Feminist Formations editorial assistant, Eric Warren! Eric (they/he) is a PhD student in Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies at Oregon State University, originally from upstate New York. They received their MA in Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies at the University at Albany, and their thesis focused on state and federal surveillance and policing of trans* folx based on the idea of proper citizenship within the United States. His other interests focus on trans studies, q***r theory, trans* affect, and trans* embodiment. We're so glad to have you join our editorial team, Eric!

We are excited to share the latest issue of Feminist Formations, now available both in print and online at Project MUSE https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51668 featuring the 2023 Feminist Formations / NWSA award winning paper by Evelyn Saavedra Autry, "Singing Feminist Ch'ixi+Art Music from Las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus," and articles by Anna M. Agathangelou, Aibakyt Baekova, & Khaoula Bengezi, Kristi Branham & Lisa A. Costello, Eunbi Lee, and Hanan Al-Alawi, and poetry by Mona Kareem, translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel. This issue includes a special dossier about Marika Cifor's Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS, curated by Cait McKinney and Jack Jen Gieseking, with essays by Lisa Diedrich, Emily Lim Rogers, Jallicia Jolly, Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Marty Fink, Stephen Molldrem & Roderic N. Crooks, Ted Kerr, and Hil Malatino, with a special response by Marika Cifor. On the cover of this issue we feature art by Laura Kina, "Over the Rainbow, One More Time." Feminist Formations is edited by Patti Duncan, housed in the Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by the Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information, see www.feministformations.org

Our latest issue is now available in print and online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51270 featuring the award winning article of the 2022 Feminist Formations/NWSA paper award, by Fauzia Erfan Ahmed, Jyotsana Parajuli, and Anna Lucia Feldman! This issue also includes articles by Kai Hang Cheang, Stephanie Yingyi Wang, Sanjula Rajat & Margaret A. McLaren, Rajani Bhatia, Sarah Valdez, Chloe Blaise, Ola Kalu, & Jessica Ramsawak, Kimberly D. McKee & Shannon Gibney, Cynthia Belmont, Inaash Islam, Azza Basarudin, and Mildred Boveda, as well as poetry by Janice Lee, book reviews by Asha Jeffers, Gwyn Kirk, and Eli Anderson, and an Afterword by former managing editor, Carina Buzo Tipton. The cover art, "Shoaib (8)," is by Ambreen Butt, part of her series honoring the young casualties of US drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan that took place during the war on terror. Feminist Formations is edited by Patti Duncan, housed in the Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by the Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information, see www.feministformations.org

Our latest special issue, "On Decolonial Feminisms: Engagement, Practice, and Action" is now available! https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51269

This special issue is guest-edited by Leece Lee-Oliver and Xamuel Bañales, and features cover art by Victor Manuel Escoto Sánchez; articles by Mary Roaf, Heather Montes Ireland, Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez & Stephany Bravo, Harleen Kuar, Katie Byrd, Nadia Davis, & Taylor M. Williams, Ashley Cordes & Micah Huff, Susy Zepeda, Luhui Whitebear, Bao Lo, Joanna Beltran, Leilani Sabzalian, Michelle M. Jacop, & Roshelle Weiser-Nieto, Marcelle Maese, and Annie Isabel Fukushima; an interview with Favianna Rodriquez by Xamuel Bañales; and poetry by Delaney Olmo, Victoria Bañales, Rawiyah Tariq, Hannah Blackwell, and Brenda Quezada.

Feminist Formations is edited by Patti Duncan, housed in the Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by the Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information, visit www.feministformations.org

Feminist Formations is saddened to share news of the passing of Dr. Amy L. Brandzel. Dr. Brandzel was a member of our Editorial Board, and associate professor of American Studies and Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies at The University of New Mexico. Dr. Brandzel's PhD was in Feminist Studies, with a minor in History, from the University of Minnesota. In their own words, Dr. Brandzel was "an intersectional, interdisciplinary scholar, [whose] scholarship works across the connections and contradictions within feminist, GLBT/q***r, postcolonial, and critical race theories on identity, citizenship, law, history, and knowledge production." Their book, Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative, offers an important intervention in discussions of citizenship and inclusion.

Please join us in expressing our deepest condolences to Dr. Brandzel's family, friends, students, colleagues, and all who knew them.

The Feminist Formations - National Women’s Studies Association annual award deadline has been extended!
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We are accepting submissions through August 1, 2023.
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One winner will be selected for publication in a future issue of Feminist Formations and will be awarded $500.
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Our inaugural winner, Dr. Andrea Y. Adomako, is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at New York University. Her winning piece, “First Wave Friendships: Ann Plato and Black Feminist Praxis”, can be found in Feminist Formations Volume 34, Issue 2 at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/863774.
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For more information about the award, including eligibility requirements, visit: https://www.feministformations.org/submit/feminist-formations-and-nwsa-paper-award
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While we excitedly await the upcoming Spring Special Issue, we’re still enjoying Feminist Formations Volume 34, Issue 3, Winter 2022 which is available in print and online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48565!
We want to highlight two Oregon State University students with pieces in the issue.
Our featured poet and artist in Winter 2022 is Kobe Natachu (all pronouns) a Shiwi, Diné, and Katishtya graduate student, activist, and poet studying Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies.
In the reviews, you will find a review by emerson l.r. barrett (he/they), a doctoral student in the Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies Program. Their work analyzes mechanisms of surveillance and inequities in digital spaces by applying q***r of color critiques, women of color feminisms, and trans studies.

Feminist Formations would like to formally announce, and invite you to join us in celebrating, Miranda Findlay's transition to Managing Editor. Miranda has previously served as co-Managing Editor with Carina Buzo Tipton, and prior to that was our Editorial Assistant. Miranda is a third year PhD student in Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies at Oregon State University. Her doctoral research utilizes women-of-color feminist and q***r theoretical perspectives to conduct textual analyses of mainstream media. Her work has been featured in Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship. Miranda, along with fellow OSU graduate student Erica De Sutter Summerville, presented their paper "Radical Space of Possibility: Transgressive Stories of Teaching and Learning in Abbott Elementary" at the 2022 NWSA conference. In her free time, Miranda enjoys binge-watching new television shows and listening to Taylor Swift with her tuxedo kitty boy, Stevie.

Feminist Formations Volume 34, Issue 3, Winter 2022 is now available in print and online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48565! The issue features cover art “For Tre” by Lorenzo Triburgo, from the series Policing Gender; articles by Liz Montegary, Jessica E. Jones, Cortney Smith, Ghassan Moussawi, Devaleena Das and Malalai Joya; a dossier in response to Hil Malatino’s Trans Care, curated by Jack Jen Gieseking and David A. Rubin and featuring writings by Jules Gill-Peterson, Andrea J. Pitts, Jack Jen Gieseking, Rox Samer, Cameron Awkward-Rich, David A. Rubin, Davy Knittle, Elliott Fukui and Christoph Handsmann, and Hil Malatino; poetry by Kobe Natachu; and book reviews by Paula C. Austin, Christine Garlough, and emerson l.r. barrett.

Feminist Formations is edited by Patti Duncan, housed in the Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by the Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information about Feminist Formations, visit www.feministformations.org

"As we say hello to 2023, we have a farewell to share. We would like to announce the news of Carina Buzo Tipton's departure from Feminist Formations - this news is exciting and filled with immense joy and pride, alongside some (admittedly selfish) bittersweetness. Carina is leaving Feminist Formations to serve as Assistant Director of DEI Education in the Office of Institutional Diversity at Oregon State University. Carina first joined our team in 2019 as Editorial Assistant and then transitioned into the role of Managing Editor and has for the last year worked alongside Miranda Findlay as Co-Managing Editor.



Carina will be deeply missed, though we are so grateful she will remain within the OSU community. She is as sharp in her humor as she is in her intelligence. She is someone who truly embodies that which Feminist Formations strives toward - she is an exceptional teacher and guide, who seeks a more just world. She is truly kind and generous in her activism and leadership, and demonstrates how we can all move more effortlessly through true feminist formations."

Join us in congratulating Dr. Jordache Ellapen whose piece "Performing Blackness as Transgressive Erotics: African Futurities and Black Q***r S*x in South African Live Art" is the 2022 co-winner of the Q***r African Studies Association Prize for Best Published Scholarly Essay by a Junior Scholar! Dr. Ellapen's article was published in Feminist Formations volume 33, issue 2, Summer 2022.

Jordache A. Ellapen, a native of South Africa, is assistant professor of Feminist Studies in Culture and Media and Director of the Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies Program in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Dr. Ellapen is an anti-disciplinary Black Studies scholar interested in the specificities of South African Blackness and its formation within an Indian Ocean world, characteristic of various overlapping regimes of coercive labor practices (slavery, Indian/Asian indentureship, African migrant labor schemes). He teaches and researches in the following key areas: African and Black gender and sexuality studies, Q***r Diaspora Studies, Visual and Performance Studies, and Afro-Indian studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Q***r Limits of South African Blackness. Reactivating Bantu Stephen Biko’s notion of Black Consciousness, Indenture Aesthetics curates an archive of aesthetic and performance art practices by Afro-Indian and Black African artists in order to trace and re-imagine the deep entanglements between Afro-Indianness, Blackness, and Africanness in a context where South African Blackness emerges as both nativist and normative, post 1994.
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The Feminist Formations team has made it to NWSA!! find us for some free copies of recent issues!! 🔍

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the Feminist Formations - National Women’s Studies Association Paper Award!
The winning paper is: "Is Income Enough? Socio-Legal Empowerment for Working Women in Bangladesh," written by Fauzia Erfan Ahmed, Jyotsana Parajuli, and Anna Lucia Feldman.
The winning submission will be published in a future issue of Feminist Formations.
Our honorable mention goes to: "Dis/Embodied Articulation: Exilic Protest in Ana Mendieta’s Borderlands" by Jocelyn E. Marshall.
Thank you to committee members Dr. Karma Chavez (chair), Dr. Elora Halim Chowdhury, and Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi for their participation in the selection process.
Please visit feministformations.org or nwsa.org for more information.

Our Summer 34.2 issue is now available on Project MUSE! This issue features the 2021 Feminist Formations-NWSA Paper Award winner, Andrea Y. Adomako, as well as Mary Zaborskis & Elizabeth Reich and Sangeetha Ravichandran, who received honorable mentions for their articles. This issue’s Poesia features Sally Afia Antwi Nuamah, another honorable mention recipient. In addition to these pieces, you will find articles by Lezlie Frye, Yvette J. Saavedra, Tamar Shirinian, Brinda J. Mehta, Sabrina Strings & Sabrina Nasir, and Sandibel Borges, and book reviews by Priya R. Chandrasekaran and Finn Johnson. The cover features work by artist Gina Athena Ulysse.
You can read the issue here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48564
                                   

We’ve extended the submission deadline for the special issue of Feminist Formations, “Writing African Feminist Subjectivities,” guest-edited by Maha Marouan and Alicia C. Decker!

Final papers are due September 1st, 2022. This special issue seeks essays addressing subjectivity as an analytical category that troubles essentialist conceptions of belonging and raises critical questions about feminism as resistance politics. Specifically, the guest editors invite essays that explore how feminists of Africa write and articulate African feminist subjectivities (Cis, Q***r and Transgender); how they negotiate power and build feminist communities; how they mobilize against domestic and sexual repression and violence; how they address politics of knowledge production and its embedded hierarchies of power (geographical, economic, cultural, racial and linguistic); and how they navigate essentialist renditions of African identity and what it means to be African and write feminisms in Africa.

For more information, please visit https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit/c0f00dd6-c699-4ef4-9a73-ca4fb4d8e9ef/writing-african-feminist-subjectivities-a-special-issue-of-feminist-formations

There’s still time to submit!!! The Feminist Formations - National Women’s Studies Association annual competition will select one winner whose work will be published in Feminist Formations and who will also receive $500. The competition is open to scholars at all ranks, including independent scholars and artists. Multiple modes of knowledge production will be considered, including, but not limited to traditional scholarly articles, essays, poetry, and visual imagery. We are particularly interested in work that contributes to Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; trans feminist studies; critical disability studies; and transnational feminisms. We also seek work that contributes to the journal’s mission to support “robust interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational feminist scholarship that can inspire incisive and politically meaningful analyses and action.”

Submissions are due by June 15. Applicants must be current NWSA members.

Note: We do not accept submissions of work that has been previously published or is being reviewed by another journal.

For more information, visit: https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit/fdc634da-0cad-4bc5-b597-d54c0dcfce9f/2022-feminist-formations-and-nwsa-award

Feminist Formations Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2022 is now available in print and online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47889! This special issue “Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University” is guest edited by Fatima El-Tayeb and Maria Stehle. The issue features cover art “Black Bird Girl” by Althea Murphy-Price, articles by Danika Medak-Saltazman & Deepti Misri & Beverly Weber, David Loner & Maggie Rosenau, Star Fem Co*Lab, Rhunette C. Diggs & Kristen Isgro, Kelly Opdycke, Leigh-Ann Hidalgo & Christine Vega & Nora Alba Cisneros & JoAnna Michelle Reyes, Tania Mancheno & Naz Al-Windi, Zeynep K. Korkman, Anna-Esther Younes & Siihasin-Hope A. Alvarado, Sudeshna Chatterjee, Dana M. Olwan & Carol W.N. Fadda, Natalie Loveless & Carrie Smith, Maisam Alomar & Vineeta Singh, and Abeera Khan, poetry by Becky Thompson, and reviews by Rosemarie Peña & Jamele Watkins and Julia K. Gruber.

The Feminist Formations - National Women’s Studies Association annual competition will select one winner whose work will be published in Feminist Formations and who will also receive $500. The competition is open to scholars at all ranks, including independent scholars and artists. Multiple modes of knowledge production will be considered, including, but not limited to traditional scholarly articles, essays, poetry, and visual imagery. We are particularly interested in work that contributes to Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; trans feminist studies; critical disability studies; and transnational feminisms. We also seek work that contributes to the journal’s mission to support “robust interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational feminist scholarship that can inspire incisive and politically meaningful analyses and action.”

Submissions are due by June 15. Applicants must be current NWSA members.

Note: We do not accept submissions of work that has been previously published or is being reviewed by another journal.

For more information, visit: https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit/fdc634da-0cad-4bc5-b597-d54c0dcfce9f/2022-feminist-formations-and-nwsa-award

Feminist Formations updated their information in their About section.

Dear Feminist Formations community, we would like to remind you of this call for papers for a special issue, “Writing African Feminist Subjectivities,” guest-edited by Maha Marouan, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and S*xuality Studies and African Studies at Penn State, and Alicia C. Decker, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and S*xuality Studies, African Studies, and History at Penn State.
Final papers are due June 15th, 2022. This special issue seeks essays addressing subjectivity as an analytical category that troubles essentialist conceptions of belonging and raises critical questions about feminism as resistance politics. Specifically, the guest editors invite essays that explore how feminists of Africa write and articulate African feminist subjectivities (Cis, Q***r and Transgender); how they negotiate power and build feminist communities; how they mobilize against domestic and sexual repression and violence; how they address politics of knowledge production and its embedded hierarchies of power (geographical, economic, cultural, racial and linguistic); and how they navigate essentialist renditions of African identity and what it means to be African and write feminisms in Africa.
For more information, please visit https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit/c0f00dd6-c699-4ef4-9a73-ca4fb4d8e9ef/writing-african-feminist-subjectivities-a-special-issue-of-feminist-formations
                                   

Please join us in welcoming our new editorial assistant, aman agah, this Spring 2022 term. aman is a first year PhD student in Women, Gender, and S*xuality Studies at Oregon State University. aman earned an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School on New York, NY, and taught as an adjunct at UNC Charlotte beginning in Spring 2018 with courses utilizing feminist approaches to media literacy, representations of Islam and Muslims, and across other intersecting identities. Currently residing on the left coast, aman is from Elizabeth, New Jersey and is two parts diaspora, and 100% horse grrrl… just stir in some Radiohead for flavor. aman is collaborating with Dr. Patti Duncan (editor), Carina Buzo Tipton (managing editor), and Miranda Findlay (editorial assistant). aman’s research interests include film and media studies, Iranian histories and narratives, Irish storytelling, representations of Muslims and Muslim-adjacent folks, and ways in which we construct our (Southwest Asian/North African) identities outside of and in intentional and meaningful conflict with colonial constructions and confines.

Mark your calendars! Co-curators Chaitanya Lakkimsetti and Vanita Reddy will be hosting a launch event for the dossier and Transnational Gender Justice, published in our Winter 2021 issue. This event will take place via Zoom on Friday, February 4th from 9:00 AM-12:30 PM (CST). See meeting information below.

Zoom link: https://tamu.zoom.us/j/91788480589?pwd=ZGhkcEo3QWt6SEJqeUwrbEdDeWEvZz09
Meeting ID: 917 8848 0589
Password: 741980

You can access the dossier and the rest of our latest issue here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47056

New year, new call for papers! The Feminist Formations 2022 General CFP is now open. We invite submissions that reflect our mission to cultivate a forum where feminists from around the world articulate research, theory, activism, teaching, and learning. Our subject matter includes national, global, and transnational feminist thought and practice; the cultural and social politics of genders and sexualities; and historical and contemporary studies of gendered experience. Check out the CFP here: https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit/213154/feminist-formations-2022-general-cfp.

Not sure if your manuscript is a good fit? We encourage you to take a look at previous issues, which can be found here: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146.

Feminist Formations Volume 33, Issue 3, Winter 2021 is now available in print and online at: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47056! This issue features cover art by garima thakur, articles by Jess Whatcott & Liat Ben-Moshe, Agatha Beins, Alana J. Bock, Kristen A. Kolenz, Jessica Gokhberg, Bayley J. Marquez, Tomomi Kinukawa, Amber Knight, and Peace Kiguwa, poetry by Choi Young-Mi, and book reviews by Danielle Bainbridge, Miranda Findlay, and Sushmita Chatterjee. This new issue also includes “A Dossier on and Transnational Gender Justice,” curated by Chaitanya Lakkimsetti & Vanita Reddy, featuring pieces by Shireen Roshanravan, Hae Yeon Choo, Ashley Currier, Erin Wi******er, & Emily Chien, Caitlin P. Carroll, Sudeshna Chatterjee, Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Ayesha Khurshid, Gloria González-López & Lydia Cordero Cabrera, and Ashwini Tambe.

Is this the Feminist Formations office or Santa’s Workshop??? Our staff channeled their inner elf to put together gift packages for our Editorial Board members. Let us know when you receive yours!

Join Feminist Formations editorial board member Maurice Hamington and co-editor Michael Flower for their virtual book launch this Friday, November 19th at 10:00 AM (PST)! This free Zoom event will feature several of the contributors briefly describing their chapters.

Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity assembles an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to explore the question of care theory as a response to market-driven capitalism. It offers a hopeful tone in the growing valorization of care, demonstrating the need for an innovative approach to precarity within entrenched systems of oppression and a change in priorities around the basic needs of humanity.

Register here: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceyurzgsH9HWmROLqbAdRl0x5JplRk2C