when you say queer, I hear decolonise: colonial archives, deviant sexualities and normative media

BY MARIA ELENA INDELICATO This blog post is part of an upcoming issue of Feminist Review that explores theories of the archive within feminist, queer, crip, decolonial, and diasporic studies. The issue, which brings academics, artists, and archivists into conversation with each other, will launch in Summer 2020 at the second Archives Matter conference, the...

Policing Gender and Regulating Testosterone in Women’s Track and Field: When All Womxn Lose

BY AAREN PASTOR On 31 May, Caster Semenya tweeted ‘Who can stop a determined woman? The answer is hell no’. Many, myself included, take this as an apt response to the 1 May court ruling in Semenya’s ongoing and protracted struggle to compete in track and field events as a woman, which decreed that she...

In Memory of Couze Venn – After Capital

BY GARGI BHATTACHARYYA In this book review of Couze Venn’s After Capital, Gargi Bhattacharyya engages with Couze’s last book, written with the knowledge, perspective and urgency that comes from the end of life. The review was commissioned byFeminist Review and we publish it here as a critical tribute to Couze who died this week. Couze...

‘Lies and Disguises: The Racialisation of “Culture” and Child Sexual Exploitation’ Gail Lewis | 21 March 2019, 5pm, SOAS, London

Please join us for the Feminist Review Annual Lecture 'Lies and Disguises: The Racialisation of "Culture" and Child Sexual Exploitation' Gail Lewis when: Thursday, 21 March 2019, 5pm where: The Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG This public talk is free and will be followed by a reception. The Feminist Review...

Breaking the Locks: A New Phase in the Indian Women’s Movement

BY ADRIJA DEY Exactly three years ago in August 2015, an open letter sent to the vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia University in Delhi to protest the cancellation of women students’ right to stay out late at night, which ignited a new phase of women’s movements on university campuses in India. Women across Delhi came together...

‘Naming without Claiming? Citation Practices and Feminist Foundations in Environmental Humanities’ Astrida Neimanis + Kathryn Yusoff | 24 Oct 2018, 6pm, SOAS, London

Please join Feminist Review and the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths for 'Naming without Claiming? Citation Practices and Feminist Foundations in Environmental Humanities' with Astrida Neimanis + Kathryn Yusoff when: Wednesday, October 24 2018, 6pm where: Brunei Gallery, Room B202, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG This public talk is free and will...

We Inter Are: Identity Politics & #MeToo

BY LATA MANI I Circa 1980’s, USA The politics of location Theory in the flesh The privilege of partial perspective Oppositional consciousness El Mundo Zurdo Cables, esoesses Conjurations & fusil missiles Make (r)evolution irresistible Polyvocal multilingual Poetry prose polemic fiction Displace reframe and recompose The single as the multi-verse Even then Bambara warned that wholeness...

Call for applications – “Weathering as Intersectional Feminist Praxis” with Astrida Neimanis

In conjunction with the publication of the journal Feminist Review on 'Environment', we are pleased to co-host a workshop with the Centre for Feminist Research (Goldsmiths) on the theme of environmental humanities and feminism with Astrida Neimanis* at Senate House (University of London) on Wednesday 24th October 2018, 2-5pm. The workshop will explicitly take up...

Announcement

The Feminist Review Collective wishes to announce that it will commence publishing with SAGE from 1 January 2019. Feminist Review has a proud history of leading global feminist debates and innovation in publishing. In SAGE we have found a publisher who is closely aligned with our approach, mission and publishing goals – supporting innovative research across multiple disciplines. The Feminist Review looks forward...