Feminist Studies

This is the fiftieth anniversary issue of Feminist Studies. We celebrate a half-century of groundbreaking scholarship and research, creative expression, and political commentary. Access the issue now on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/49501

Check out this interview with author Nadine Naber in Jadaliyya, where she discusses her FS article, “The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution,” jadaliyya.com/Details/43566/…

FS Special Issue, Global Intimacies: China and/in the Global South jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Ileana Nachescu critically considers the politics of erasure in how we remember a formidable organization of 1970s Black feminists who resisted the racism of white women’s organizing efforts. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Ashley Smith-Purviance takes a close look at Black girls' experiences of schooling to explore their distinct vulnerability and to remind us of the need for a systemic analytical approach. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Eric James explores images of Black women in video games, raising questions about how abjection and violence are represented. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Jordache Ellapen celebrates South African performance art duo FAKA and finds in their disruptive presentation of bottomhood a liberating and healing practice for black male femininity in an anti-queer world. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Nadine Naber interviews activists who are mothers to analyze how they fused the work of care, change, and solidarity during the Egyptian Revolution. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Jennifer C. Nash demonstrates how photographer Lakisha Cohill’s portraits of Black mothers breastfeeding play with understandings of nature and artifice. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

FS Special Issue: Black Feminist Thought jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Judy Rohrer’s meditation explores the poetics of breath in this political moment. Contending as we are in the US with both a virus that debilitates the respiratory system and anti-Black police brutality the slogan “I can’t breathe” takes on a new resonance jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Girvan, Pardesi, Bhanda, and Nath recount how their method of using poetry prompts builds solidarity in their scholarly collective, allowing them to nurture each other’s spirits. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

In her reflection on self-care as resistance Altheria Caldera narrates how a Black feminist “theory in the flesh” approach to health and well-being at the onset of the pandemic has allowed her to challenge the effects of capitalist exploitation in her life jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Eve Ng shows how Trump and other male authoritarian leaders deploy similar gendered tactics that reject science. Ng analyzes practices such as refusing mask-wearing and rejection of public health guidelines as forms of hegemonic masculine behavior jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Zainab S. Cheema offers an ecological critique that draws on interviews with environmental feminists to show that they have both tactical and analytical wisdom to offer in response to the pandemic. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Lawson, Anfaara, Flomo, Garlo, and Osman describe the virus containment work carried out by Women’s Peace Huts in Liberia, centering women’s social reproductive labor in response to the pandemic. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Tania Rispoli and Miriam Tola examine how activists in Bergamo (the region in northern Italy hardest hit by the pandemic) are centering the importance of social reproduction and “radical care” projects that address basic survival and health needs. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Alexia Arani cautions that mutual aid projects that have grown in response to both the pandemic and police brutality have had ambivalent and adverse effects for those who were in need of care prior to the pandemic, particularly sick and disabled TQPoC. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Carolina Moraes, Juma Santos, and Mariana Prandini Assis describe Tulipas do Cerrado, a network of care created by a street sex workers’ collective in Brazil. They argue that such mutual aid demonstrates how practices of care create “a survival strategy” jstor.org/stable/10.1576…

Constanza Tabbush and Elisabeth Jay Friedman note that the severe economic downturn caused by the pandemic has not curtailed feminist activism in Latin America, where deep-rooted digital methods have produced unprecedented forms of solidarity. jstor.org/stable/10.1576…