Gatherings is a peer reviewed, multidisciplinary, intersectional, feminist online journal that features original research, criticism and art. The journal offers a collaborative, open-access forum for students, faculty, activists, and community members to examine feminisms, gender and sexuality in their varied disciplinary, historical, transnational, theoretical, creative, and artistic dimensions.
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Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1 (2024) Exploring Feminist Placemaking
Is it possible to be a feminist while mostly laboring in solitude? To be a feminist and rarely or never commit to being in community with other feminists? Those of us who founded this journal see many feminists succeed, and even thrive, by doing individual research, service, teaching and art...Read moreArticles
Gatherings 1.1 (complete volume)
Editors Gatherings Journal
Welcome to Gatherings: Studies in Feminism
Editors Gatherings Journal, Lisa J. Cunningham, Amy Shore, Jill Swiencicki, and Farha Ternikar
Introducing Volume 1 of Gatherings: Lessons in Feminist Placemaking in the Present Time
Jill Swiencicki
Radical Methods
Roberta Hurtado
The Familiar Feels Like Family: A Black Feminists' Approach to Placemaking and Gathering for Black Women in the Academy
Katrina Marie Overby
Feminist Community-Building in Transient Places
Lisa J. Cunningham
Black Queer Feminist Placemaking and the Normalization of Difference
Jaynelle D. Nixon
‘Your body is your story . . . & only you can write it’: Feminist Placemaking at Planned Parenthood
Jill Swiencicki
Where is the Place for Muslim Feminists? Placemaking in the Ruptures of the North American Academy
Wafaa Hasan, Besan Jaber, Nadiya N. Ali, Asmaa Malik, and Farha Ternikar
Thankful for Difficult Work: Navigating a Workspace Where Trauma is the Focus
Catherine Cerulli Dr.
Black Feminine Performance Meets Feminist Placemaking
Cassandra Scherr
Elbowing Across Continents: A Journey for Space
Smriti Jacob
Points of Necessary Return: A Feminist-Pragmatist, Place-Based Approach to Social Justice
Barbara Lowe
Dear Sarah Weddington
Barbara LeSavoy
Finding and Filling the Inkwell: Gathering, Cultivating and Writing in an Intersectional Feminist Scholarly Community
Danika Medak-Saltzman
Making Place in the Midst of Catastrophe and Change
Yamuna Sangarasivam
Editor-in-Chief
- Jill Swiencicki, Ph.D.
- St. John Fisher University
Managing Editors
- Farha Ternikar, Ph.D.
- Le Moyne College
- Lisa J. Cunningham, Ph.D.
- St. John Fisher University
- Amy Shore, Ph.D.
- SUNY Oswego
Production Editor
- Pat Maxwell, MLS
- SUNY Brockport