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Feminist Formations

Peer-reviewed journal of intersectional, interdisciplinary feminist thought, politics, and art. Publ

Editor: Patti Duncan
Managing Editor: Carina Buzo Tipton
Editorial Assistants: Miranda Findlay and aman agah

[email protected]

06/05/2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

The Feminist Formations - National Women's Studies Association annual Paper Award is live! The extended deadline is June 15 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

05/09/2025

REMINDER: Feminist Formations NWSA Award deadline is coming up!

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

03/31/2025

Our special issue, Feminist Visions for a Gradeless University, is extending the abstract deadline. The extended deadline is April 11, 2025. The guest editors will invite full manuscript submissions by the end of April.

02/21/2025

Feminist Formations Volume 36, Issue 3, Winter 2024 is now available in print and online at https://muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54203. This issue features cover art "A Gathering Place" by Ethel-Ruth Tawe. Ethel-Ruth Tawe is an antidisciplinary artist and creative researcher exploring memory in African and its diaspora. Image-making, storytelling, and time-travelling compose the framework of her inquiry. From photography, collage, and text, to moving images, installation, and other time-based media, Ethel examines culture and technology often from a speculative lens. She is reachable at Art of Ethel Tawe and [email protected].

This issue was guest edited by Maha Marouan, Alicia C. Decker, and Zinhle ka'Nobuhlaluse. This issue features articles by Maha Marouan, Alicia C. Decker, and Zinhle ka'Nobuhlaluse; Patricia McFadden; Minna Salami; Gabeba Baderoon; Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi; Amber Lascelles; Catey Boyle; Unifer Dyer; Tushabe wa Tushabe; poetry by Gabeba Baderoon, and Sailja Patel; and book reviews by Ijeoma C. Opara and Chan C. Croeser, and Kathleen Sheldon.

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! 💜

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