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Call for Submissions

Issue 1, Fall 2024: “Lessons in Feminist Place-Making”

Deadline: Closed (no longer accepting submissions for Issue 1)

Feminists gather. We gather to examine problems, tell stories, and make knowledge. We gather to develop resiliency, creativity, and durable structural change. We do this in the face of entrenched power imbalances within feminism in the areas of race, class, age, ability, political and sexual difference. How do our gatherings seek to repair–or reinforce–the historic and ongoing betrayals within feminist work? How do we gather in ways that reflect the worlds we imagine? Gatherings: Studies in Gender & Sexuality is a new journal dedicated to these questions, and more. It is an inclusive place for a range of voices—from students, community leaders, teachers, artists and researchers—that gathers the reflection, research, analysis, and creative visual and digital artifacts that examine gender and sexuality for our present time.

For our inaugural issue, the editors of Gatherings seek contributions that reflect on the questions of where and how feminist communities, organizations, and individuals are gathering now, and why place matters for inclusive, intersectional social change. Rather than seeking journal-length writing, for this issue we seek short reflections and position papers (250-500 words) that engage with one or more of the following related questions:

  • What is feminist place-making in the 21st century?
  • What is the symbolic weight of where feminists choose to gather?
  • What criteria should be adopted for where feminists gather to share research, experience, and ideas in the coming years?
  • What are the features that might make up a “politics of place” for future feminist gatherings (particularly in western New York, or elsewhere of relevance to our regional focus), one that does not erase the tensions within feminist history in the U.S., and one that contributes to a just, inclusive, and intersectional feminist community building?
  • What are some imaginative models for creative and ethical feminist place-making?
  • What are personal stories we should lift up and tell as we imagine a feminist politics of place?

We hope the Journal, and this issue, provides inspiration and practical insight to carry on the work ahead. We look forward to gathering with you in the digital pages of this Journal. Please be on the lookout for announcements about our future issues and send feedback to gatheringsjournal@sjfc.edu.

Thank you,

The Editors of Gatherings: Studies in Gender & Sexuality