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 2, Issue 1 (2025) The State of Women of Color in New York Higher Education
Introduction: Building Space for Gathering in Hostile Times
This introduction serves as a means to share with you, the reader, about an upstate New York symposium that occurred in March of 2025. The event aimed to create a space where we could explore the trials, tribulations, and jubilations that women of color in New York higher education experience. Speakers and attendees gathered from all over the state—and, indeed, country—on a cold wintery day in a spirit of togetherness and awareness of where we find ourselves in this moment. We were there to learn and grow, and to find community...Read more
Articles
Gatherings 2.1 (complete volume)
Roberta Hurtado
Our Experiences
Julie G. Fogden
Introduction: Building Space for Gathering in Hostile Times
Roberta Hurtado
Community, Reflection, Wisdom
Elizabeth Gil
Guerrillera Blesson Interlude I
María L. Arroyo Cruzado and Julie G. Fogden
Round Tables, a poem
Heather A. Hathaway Miranda
Guerrillera Blesson Interlude II
María L. Arroyo Cruzado and Julie G. Fogden
No More Hester Prynne
Jeanine A. Irons
A Little Piece Of Her Dies
Keturah L. Hancock
Guerrillera Blesson Interlude III
María L. Arroyo Cruzado and Julie G. Fogden
Arriving in a New Language of Race
Chidinma F. Chikwe
Guerrillera Blesson Interlude IV
María L. Arroyo Cruzado and Julie G. Fogden
The Power of Community: Creating Pathways for Women of Color in Higher Education
Dayanara Vázquez Comas PsyD
Women, Race, Recovery: How Some of History’s Most Impactful Thinkers Reflect on Their Own Healing
Karol Cooper
Guerrillera Blesson Interlude V
María L. Arroyo Cruzado and Julie G. Fogden
The Paradox of the Broker: Why Educators of Color Must Be Supported, Not Just Celebrated
Tatiana C. Parker
Femtoring Book Club: Turning Pages, Uplifting Latinas
Heather A. Hathaway Miranda
Guerrillera Blesson Interlude VI
María L. Arroyo Cruzado and Julie G. Fogden
A Psalm of Love for our Goddesses
Lillian Evans
Guerrillera Blesson Interlude VII
María L. Arroyo Cruzado and Julie G. Fogden
A Love Letter to My Sisters
Angel Jones
Guest Editor
- Roberta Hurtado, Ph.D.
- SUNY Oswego
Interim Editor-in-Chief
- Amy Shore, Ph.D.
- SUNY Oswego
Production Editor
- Pat Maxwell, MLS
- SUNY Brockport
Cover Image
Cover image used with permission of the artist Julie Fogden. Instagram: @j_fogden_art