Crisis of care in the Feminist Review Collective

On 12 May 2020, the statement below was sent to members of the Feminist Review Collective by four Collective members—Azeezat, Jenny, Nydia and Terese . The statement raises a number of issues that point to a serious ‘crisis of care’ within what purports to be a feminist collective, centred on inequalities and power relations of...

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...

No lockdown on violence against women and girls during COVID-19: a view from Peru

BY CLAUDIA MEDINA LOPEZ AND ALTHEA-MARIA RIVAS Continual increases in social violence across Latin America are producing a pervasive security crisis. The recent report from the Igarapé Institute confirmed that more than 2.5 million Latin Americans were violently killed in 2018 alone. In this context, violence against women and girls is a widespread phenomenon. Latin...

Home as an Occupied Territory: intimacy, occupation, and loss in Kashmir

BY SAMIA MEHRAJ Kashmir is a foreign cartographer’s unfulfilled dream. Every nation that surrounds Kashmir is eager to put its drafting scale to use, to rewrite our ethnopolitical history and claim our future as their own. A great deal of political discourse on Kashmir is driven by these nations and their colonial manoeuvrings to keep...