Boosting this. Grad students, please submit. Faculty, please encourage your grad students to submit.

Feminist Studies Journal@feministstudies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The annual Feminist Studies grad prize is open for submissions! December 31st deadline. Please spread the word.

Final call! Seeking short pieces on gender & sports (e.g. trans athletes and SCOTUS, colorism in sports, NIL, sexualization of athletes, antiblackness, ideas of "fairness," history of women in sports, politics of country club sports) - 1,500 words (ish). Details on our website. Please submit by 8/1!

Re-reading @profcrunk.bsky.social's reflections on "black feminist waymaking" in times of catastrophe.

@durba.bsky.social writing about connections between institutionalized misogyny, Epstein's countless faculty allies, and Harvard's starvation of WGS. An important analysis of the particular ways the Ivies have gutted WGS. (All free, all open access on MUSE)

From our new issue's dossier on teaching gender studies now-- "Amidst it all, we are being stalked, and that condition spurs us to intensify our own reckoning with our commitments to the feminist work that this moment requires." Danielle Bouchard, J. Tiffany Holland, and Lisa Levenstein.

The new issue is live! Catch us on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/57134 Work by @profcrunk.bsky.social, @samanthapinto.bsky.social, @durba.bsky.social, Vanessa Pitts-Taylor, Julie Enszer, and more! Our dossier on teaching WGS now is free and accessible on MUSE.

Talking with Marquis Bey about their new book, Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory. Full interview to come!

How does taking seriously the experiences of trans athletes alter the terms of the debate about sports participation? @christinakahrl.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, & Elizabeth Sharrow discuss in their reflections on Ellie Roscher & Anna Baeth's Fair Game. signsjournal.org/fair-game-tr...

Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports

Christina Kahrl, Maggie Mertens, and Elizabeth Sharrow discuss Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports, with a response from authors Ellie Roscher and Anna Baeth.

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To celebrate the start of the W season, and our call for short pieces on gender and sports, I talked to @courtmcox.bsky.social, author of Double Crossover, about rivalry and romance, Dawn and Geno, Title IX and transphobia.

We have a new call for news & views (short pieces) on gender & sports. Topics including: Gender and “Fairness” in Sports; Transgender Athlete Participation and Eligibility Policies; Racism in Sports Media Coverage; Queerness in Athletic Culture; Branding of Women’s Sports. Please submit!

Scholarly journal editors talking about feminist scholarly writing under authoritarianism. Thanks @signsjournal.org for including us!

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society@signsjournal.org · 3mo ago

What does it mean to mentor feminist grad students when programs are shrinking and jobs are disappearing? Editors describe using the editorial process itself as feminist mentoring and solidarity work. New Ask a Feminist, out now!

We are actively looking for news & views (short pieces) that offer feminist perspectives about the current political moment: the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, Epstein and institutional complicity, AI, fake news and deepfakes, etc. More info on how to submit: www.feministstudies.org/home.html

A new era at Feminist Studies, the same commitments: unabashedly feminist.

Our new beautiful issue is live on Project MUSE now (the preface is open access). Come read work by Lisa McLean, Marie Kruger, Nazia Manzoor, Rosemary Nagy and co-authors, JiHae Koo, Nicole F. Scalissi, Ketaki Pant, Viki Peer, Jamie O'Quinn. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56669

A little sneak peek at the beautiful issue cover:

... and our next issue is dropping in a few days. Stay tuned for new work on maternal activism, The Last of Us, the orna in contemporary Bangladesh, Ana Mendieta, and a book review essay on feminist histories of Indian Ocean capitalism.

We are so proud to announce that the winner of the 2025 Claire Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article Published in the Journal is Anja Lind. Lind's article, "“(De)Constructing the Vulva: Locating the Labia in Trans Vaginoplasty," was published in 2024.

Feminist Studies is hiring! Details on managing editor position are here: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

The annual Feminist Studies grad prize is open for submissions! December 31st deadline. Please spread the word.

Grad students, stay tuned! We'll be announcing details on our annual graduate student prize in January.

The new cover is live! Issue 50.3 is out in the world!

Our newest issue is live! Amazing work on fetal loss, reproductive rights, digital misogyny, and the politics of friendship, alongside stunning poetry and art. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56086

Something I love about FS: we're independent. We are self-governed and self-managed, apart from universities. This always seemed important to our identity, but its essential now.

One of my favorite things about Feminist Studies is our commitment to art. We regularly publish art essays with full color spreads of art work (have an idea to pitch us? Please send!) and our covers are stunning. Shout out to Duy-Khuong Van, our graphic designer.

We're sad to miss @theenwsa.bsky.social conference this year - but hope you check out the session on Sun at 1PM on feminist publishing with our friends from @signsjournal.org , @meridians.bsky.social, and more. #feministpublishing

Looking for ideas about what to teach this spring? (Or, not even thinking about spring yet... which is where I am). We have a list of teachable articles about visual culture, ethnic studies, capitalism, activism, and more. www.feministstudies.org/classroom/cl...

We are seeking short reflections on: Surveillance culture and technology Artificial intelligence Climate change Fake news and misinformation Reproductive justice Racial and gender inequalities Indigenous rights More here: www.feministstudies.org/home.html