Feminist Media Histories

17/12/2024

Happy Holidays! ⛄️

We have a new CFP! Special Issue on Reproductive Politics & Media Histories, guest edited by Shelley Stamp. Proposals are due April 1, 2025:

16/12/2024

In our 10.4 issue, Luisa González explores how women-led digital activist groups used the internet to set up political actions and create online places for care and mourning during the 2021 Colombian national strike.

Read González's essay here:

This article elaborates a feminist digital activist perspective on the Colombian national strike of 2021 through the work of two women-led collectives (colectivas) in which I participated from afar, as part of the Colombian diaspora. Radio Lila is a collective of women living in Cali’s oriente, an...

04/12/2024

In our 10.4 issue, Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores how Yoani Sanchez, a virtually unknown Cuban blogger, became a media sensation and helped to reshape Cuba.

Scholar and artist Frances Negrón-Muntaner is now finishing a film on her award-winning public installation Valor y Cambio and writing a book on Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

Read Negrón-Muntaner's essay here:

In 2013, the young philologist Yoani Sánchez was “possibly the most famous living Cuban not named Castro” and one of the world’s most famous bloggers. Although, at the time, very few people in Cuba had access to the internet, a legion of volunteers worldwide translated her Generation Y blog i...

13/11/2024

In our 10.4 issue, Dan Bustillo explores platform disappearance and trans Latinx micro-celebrities' creative workarounds. Bustillo works across trans, Latinx, and media studies. They are currently drafting a book project on trans Latinx activist media. Read Dan's article here:

On social media platforms, micro-celebrities need visibility to build community. Yet, the promise of online community is challenging for creators who contend with media platforms’ corporate policies on the one hand and users’ social biases on the other. Drawing from media studies, trans studies,...

13/11/2024

📣We have a new CFP! Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025:

13/11/2024

We have made a Bluesky account!

From now on we will use this account instead of our Twitter/X handle.

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Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.

30/10/2024

In our 10.4 issue, Diana Flores Ruíz offers new insights into digital memory optimization through feminist, anticolonial countermapping. Diana is also currently working on two digital humanities projects, Mapping Digital Discriminatory Media and Recovering Latinx Resistance. Read Diana's article here:

In this essay, I examine memory optimization as both a fundamental component of digital operations and a feminist form of cultural resistance to digital

15/10/2024

Happy October! We are pleased to announce that our brand new issue, “Transnational Latinxs and Digital Media,” guest edited by Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Orianna Calderón-Sandoval, is now live! Read the editors’ introduction for free here:

This special issue of Feminist Media Histories arises from pressing questions about a historic convergence with significant political consequences: the joint rise of digital technologies and feminisms across hemispheric Latinx+ America.1 In contrast to even two decades ago, an increasingly plural fe...

01/10/2024

Tomorrow (Oct. 1) is the deadline to submit your work for our graduate student writing contest!

Find the full CFP here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/awards

We look forward to reading your work!

Awards | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press Awards   SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize   The SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize, co-sponsored by Feminist Media Histories, recognizes outstanding scholarship in...

13/09/2024

In 10.2-3, Mathilde Rouxel talks about the life and work of the Lebanese documentary filmmaker Jocelyn Saab, and the efforts by the Association Jocelyne Saab to preserve and restore Saab’s films.

Read the essay here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/215/200390/Restoring-and-Curating-Jocelyne-Saab-s-Cinema-of

University of California Press

02/09/2024

Don’t forget: submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due October 1, 2024. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH.

For more information: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/awards

University of California Press

02/09/2024

Reminder: proposals for the special issue on Fashion in Media Histories, guest edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins, are due September 9! See details here:https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/CFP_Fashion%20in%20Media%20Histories.docx.pdf

University of California Press

28/08/2024

In 10.2-3, Pamela Hutchinson discusses film curation strategies for early, silent, and pre-Code cinema, and ways to return women to the center of cinema from the sidebars. Read the essay here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/159/200386/Curating-Young-Cinema

14/08/2024

In our 10.2-3 issue, Kate Saccone reflects on her work curating lost films directed, written, and produced by early women filmmakers from Peru, Croatia, Egypt, China, Mexico, Poland, and the United States.
Read the essay for free here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/145/200384/Wrath-Witches-and-Wondrous-Women-A-Curated-Program

University of California Press

29/07/2024

In 10.2-3, Shelley Stamp urges us to ask broader questions about how gender has informed collecting, curating, and cataloging practices. Read her report on the 2023 FIAF “Women, Cinema, and Film Archives” Symposium here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/140/200376/Conference-ReportFIAF-Symposium-Women-Cinema-and

University of California Press

15/07/2024

In our 10.2-3 issue, Gabriela Yepes-Rossel talks about her curatorial work Rebeldes y Valientes/Rebels and Braves (1913–2019), the first digital archive on the participation of women filmmakers in the history of Peruvian cinema. Read the essay here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/258/200379/Curating-DisruptionReflections-from-Peru-on

University of California Press

11/07/2024

📢Another CFP alert! Special issue on the Women of IMAX, guest edited by Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney. Proposals are due September 30, 2024:https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/CFP_Women%20of%20IMAX.docx.pdf

University of California Press

11/07/2024

📣We have a new CFP! Special Issue on Fashion in Media Histories, guest edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins. Proposals are due September 9, 2024:https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/CFP_Fashion%20in%20Media%20Histories.docx.pdf

University of California Press