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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]

12/15/2025

Feminist Formations Volume 37, Issue 2, Summer 2025 is now available in print and online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56103! This issue will be open access until the end of the year!

The issue features cover art by Chanti Mañon ( on Instagram). Chanti Mañon is an Indigenous visual artist primarily working in illustration, oil paint, and murals. She graduated with a B.A. in Ethnic Studies, a B.A. in Studio Art and a minor in Indigenous studies in 2022. Their work focuses on creating diverse, representations of Indigenous people, and experience through portraiture, and culturally specific iconography.

This issue features articles by Julie Avril Minich; Mythili Rajiva; Shara Crookston; Eden Dean Ellen Nay; Ian Liujia Tian; Rifat Mahbub and Anika Saba; Emily Colpitts; Rachel E. Luft; and poetry by Patrick Sylvain.

07/11/2025

Feminist Formations is happy to announce that our issues published in 2025 will will be open access on Project Muse! Access out latest issue at beav.es/ff371 or at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55004.

07/09/2025

Feminist Formations Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2025 is now available in print and online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55004. This issue is Open Access! This features cover art “Chicharras” by Mateo Rosales Fertig. Mateo Rosales Fertig (they/he/el) is a multimedia artist, educator, and death doula from Somi S'ek, the Rio Grande Valley, Esto'k Gna land. They are currently based in Kalapuyan territory and are a PhD student at Oregon State University. His research foci center Curandera feminisms, QTIPOC subversive art-making as essential liberatory strategy, q***r traditional ecological knowledges, and a deep love for the RGV. To collaborate, you can contact them at [email protected].

This issue features articles by Jingxue Zhang; Jennifer Cárcamo; Jennifer Williams; Siiri Koski, Vivian Swayne, Eric Warren and Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk; Annie Menzel; Akanksha Misra; Corinne Matthews; Margaret Galvan; Kenna Neitch, April Scarlette Callis, and Tina Coyne; Emily Ward Bivens and Maria Stehle; poetry by Victoria Reyes, and Mateo Rosales Fertig; and book reviews by Mariela Méndez, Wanjiru Kareithi, and Asher Firestone.

06/18/2025

The latest issue of Feminist Formations is in print and online (with open access)! https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146

This beautiful issue features cover art by Mateo Rosales Fertig, a multimedia artist, educator, and death doula from Somi S'ek, in the Rio Grande Valley, who engages processes of memory and remembering in their work, committed to moving with accountability in relation to ancestors, communities, and descendants. Articles include the two winning manuscripts of the 2024 Feminist Formations / National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Paper Award: Jingxue Zhang's "Counter-Reproductive Memory: Chinese Young Women Against State Pronatalism," and Jennifer Cárcamo's "Bananas and (W)omen: Communist Schoolteachers, Socialist Feminism, and the Making of Costa Rica's First Communist Party, 1920–1940," as well as articles by Jennifer Williams, Siiri Koski, Vivian Swayne, Eric Warren, & Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk, Annie Menzel, Akanksha Misra, Corinne Matthews, Margaret Galvan, Kenna Neitch, April Scarlette Callis, & Tina Coyne, a creative collaboration by Emily Bivens and Maria Stehle, poetry by Victoria Reyes and Mateo Rosales Fertig, and book reviews by Mariela Mendez, Wanjiru Kareithi, and Asher Firestone.

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

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!

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