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02/01/2025

We are happy to announce our call for the special issue: "Feminist Visions for a Gradeless University," guest-edited by Atia Sattar, Man Kaplan, and Stina Soderling.

We are seeking abstracts by March 31, 2025, and invitations for full manuscripts will be sent by April 30, 2025. This special issue seeks papers that critically engage with grading practices from a range of intersectional feminist perspectives. We are particularly interested in how a feminist pedagogical lens can draw attention to the social and institutional structures that grades function within, including but not limited to the colonial origins of the education system; racism and ableism in assessment; and the gendered care work of feminist education

For more information, visit our website: https://www.feministformations.org/submit/calls-for-papers

Submissions accepted through submittable

02/01/2025

The Feminist Formations - National Women's Studies Association annual Paper Award is live! The deadline is 1 June 2025.

One winner will be selected for publication in a future issue of Feminist Formations and will be awarded $500. Winners are announced at the annual NWSA conference.

Look out for last year's winning essays, "Counter-Reproductive Memory: Chinese Young Women Against State Pronatalism" by Jingxue Zhang and "Bananas and (Wo)men: Communist Schoolteachers, Socialist Feminism, and the Making of Costa Rica's First Communist Party" by Dr. Jennifer A. Cárcamo, in our upcoming Winter issue.

For more information about the award, including eligibility requirements, visit: https://www.feministformations.org/submit/feminist-formations-and-nwsa-paper-award

01/23/2025

Our 2025 General Call for Papers is open! We invite you to submit your manuscript on our submit page of our website or https://beav.es/G6c

01/10/2025

Join us in welcoming our newest addition to the editorial staff, I-Yun Lee. I-Yun (she/her) is a PhD student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a focus on sport, q***r feminist critique, and social justice studies. For her dissertation, she will be researching the experiences of women of color in diversity pipeline programs hosted by professional sports organizations. We are excited to have I-Yun joining us as a new editorial assistant!

10/29/2024

Come check out of newest issue that Luca (our newest team member) is reading. Feminist Formations Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2024 is now available in print and online at project muse. This issue features cover art “Echos of Tranquility” by Negar Nahidian. Negar Nahidian is a graphic designer, artist, and calligrapher whose work bridges traditional Persian art with contemporary expressions using digital and traditional mixed media engaging with themes of identity, culture, and social justice. This issue includes articles by Isabel Millán; Tamanika Ferguson; Michael Washington; Rebekkah Mulholland; Themal Ellawala; Christine E. Rosales, Tiffani L. Rojas, Regina D. Langhout; David A. Rubin, Tushabe wa Tushabe; Xavier Livermon; Hil Malatino; B Camninga; Amanda Lock Swarr; Jamila Osman; reviews by Iqra Shagufta Cheema; Yola Gómez; Taylor Maki; and an afterword by former Feminist Formations Managing Editor Miranda Findlay.

10/23/2024

We're excited to announce the latest issue of Feminist Formations, available in print and online: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53347
This amazing issue includes cover art by Negar Nahidian, poetry by Jamila Osman, and articles by Isabel Millán, Tamanika Ferguson, Michael Washington, Rebekkah Mulholland, Themal Ellawala, and Christine Rosales, Tiffani Rojas, & Regina Langhout. At the center of this issue we feature a powerful dossier about Amanda Lock Swarr's book, Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine, curated by David A. Rubin, with essays by Tushabe wa Tushabe, Xavier Livermon, Hil Malatino, David A. Rubin, and B Camminga, with a special response from Amanda Lock Swarr. We include three book reviews by Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Yola Gómez, and Taylor Maki, and an afterword by former editorial assistant and managing editor Miranda Findlay. As editor Patti Duncan notes in the Introduction, writings in this issue engage themes of feminist activism and resistance, intellectual inheritances and genealogies, and the possibilities of feminist world-making.

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

05/23/2024

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 Sexuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information, visit www.feministformations.org

04/24/2024

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 Sexuality 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! 💜

02/27/2024

Join us in welcoming our new Feminist Formations editorial assistant, Eric Warren! Eric (they/he) is a PhD student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University, originally from upstate New York. They received their MA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality 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!

01/06/2024

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 Sexuality 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

10/05/2023

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 Sexuality 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

07/17/2023

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 Sexuality 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

05/09/2023

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 Sexuality 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.

04/20/2023

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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04/18/2023

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 Sexuality Studies.
In the reviews, you will find a review by emerson l.r. barrett (he/they), a doctoral student in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality 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.

02/10/2023

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 Sexuality 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.

01/24/2023

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 Sexuality 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

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