Addressing the Crisis of Care in Feminist Review

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Feminist Review Collective put out a communication about slowing down and committing to carrying out ways to care for and respond to the needs of our authors and reviewers, and the wider community. A month and a half later, some members of the Collective sent the...

Un/Desirable Journeys ←→ Queer Elsewheres: South Asian Imaginaries Across Intersectional Terrain

Feminist Review is currently calling for articles and Open Space pieces for a guest-edited themed issue on ‘Un/Desirable Journeys ←→ Queer Elsewheres: South Asian Imaginaries Across Intersectional Terrain’ (Issue 133, March 2023). Submission deadline: 1 October 2021. Follow this link for full details. We also invite submissions in a range of multimedia formats to be...

Call for Feminist Review Editorial Members

Call now closed. We invite applications for the role of editorial member of Feminist Review. The closing date for applications is Wednesday 25 August 2021 (23.59 BST). The Role We are looking for people who are passionate about feminist scholarship and supporting authors to develop their work and to communicate their ideas and research effectively....

Screening and writing: Households and (queer) kinship in Covid-19 times

BY ULRIKA DAHL It is April in the pandemic spring of 2020 and I’m in a Zoom meeting with a screen full of talking heads when the kid comes home at 2 pm. Sweden, with the highest percentage of women in the paid workforce in the EU, has opted against closing schools; it would cause...

Digitalisation and inequalities in Higher Education in South Africa: a decolonial feminist response

BY NADIRA OMARJEE AND SURUCHI THAPAR-BJÖRKERT History is not the past.It is the present.We carry our histories with us.We are our history.If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals.James Baldwin (2017, p.107)   Coronavirus has highlighted the incongruencies of education as a public good, re-articulating social injustices which further alienate groups lacking in cultural capital. These...

Art in the archive bursary: Glitching the archive – Women’s Art Library/Feminist Review remote residency 2020: call for proposals

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 31 OCTOBER 2020 The Women’s Art Library and Feminist Review are inviting submissions for the Art in the Archive Bursary 2020. This year’s aim is to create a ‘remote residency’ based in the Women’s Art Library collection as an unofficially digitised archive. The residency will be facilitated by the collection’s curator to...

Crisis of care: whiteness in the Collective

BY IRENE GEDALOF It has taken me far too long to begin to recognise how pervasively and exhaustingly whiteness is stitched into the fabric of FR’s practices, structures and spaces. I thank those members of the collective who have, to paraphrase Haraway (1991, p. 157), helped to drag me kicking and screaming towards a realisation...

Embodied Archives of Institutional Violence and Anti-Racist Occupation – Reading Julietta Singh’s ‘No Archive Will Restore You’ in the University

BY AKANKSHA MEHTA This blog post is part of issue 125 of Feminist Review, which 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, launched in July 2020. Blog posts in this series can be found here. Gratitude I...

Hurt and Words: On Language and Pain in Public

BY KHAIRANI BAROKKA This blog post is part of issue 125 of Feminist Review, which 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, launched in July 2020. Blog posts in this series can be found here. While writing...

An end to complicity in the Feminist Review Collective: a commitment to change

BY YASMIN GUNARATNAM AND NAVTEJ PUREWAL We—Tej and Yasmin—are writing this joint response to the Crisis of Care statement, published on the Feminist Review blog on 4 August in the absence of a timely Collective response. We feel it is important to convey our own understanding of the Statement and to become accountable for the...