Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent special issue Black Performance 42.1, edited by Frontiers Co-Editor Kimberly M. Jew, highlights author K. Allison Hammer Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University. “Jettisoned”: Angelina Weld Grimké and the Banning of…
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Staging Black Fugitivity
Slavery’s legacies, afterlives, and remains continually haunt our present. Embedded in our political, cultural, educational, and social institutions, the specter of slavery is intimately entangled with contemporary life, functioning as an unresolvable enmity expressed toward black people. Studies of slavery within black theatre history are often relegated to the past, with many black theatre scholars looking to nineteenth-century black playwrights…
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A Frontiers Conversation in the aftermath of the Atlanta Shootings
A conversation between Frontiers co-editors Kimberly M. Jew and Darius Bost in the aftermath of the March 16, 2021 Atlanta shootings that left 8 people dead, 6 of them Asian women. KIMBERLY The recent anti-Asian violence in Atlanta has reminded me of the issue of invisibility that has shaped the lives of Asian Americans throughout the centuries in the U.S. I'm thinking of…
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Staging Feminist Futures
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent issue, Staging Feminist Futures 41.3, a special issue edited by Frontiers Co-Editor Kimberly M. Jew, brings together feminist and queer visions of the future as expressed in performance. With this issue, we highlight two…
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Thinking, Talking, Writing Collectively
An Approach to Decolonial Feminist Praxis and Pedagogy Frontiers is pleased to present Krista Benson, April Petillo, Shy Pacheco Hamilton, and Maia Butler, the authors of “A Hopeful Decolonial Rhizome: An Invitation” (Frontiers 41.2), as they describe their individual and collective contributions to the colloquium in a 20 min video. They share the process of their collaborative work, gloss the…
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The Making of The Celine Archive Movie
Editor’s Note: In celebration of Filipinx American History Month, scholar and filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu discusses her new film, The Celine Archive, set for international release October 15th THE MAKING OF THE CELINE ARCHIVE MOVIE by Celine Parreñas Shimizu Celine Navarro, a 28-year old immigrant mother of four, was buried alive by her Filipinx American community in Northern California in…
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Beauty Diplomacy
It is easy to dismiss beauty pageants as sexist or inconsequential. After all, many pageants continue to make judgments and enforce rules based on women’s body measurements, age, and marital status. Oluwakemi M. Balogun’s Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation, however, examines beauty pageants in their full complexity by recognizing aspects of pageantry that some scholars deem troublesome while simultaneously…
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Hot off the Press: Volume 41 Issue 2
The Frontiers Editorial Collective invite you to our most recent issue 41.2. “This issue includes individual papers with two curated conversations: a round-table, “Staging Feminist Futures,” and a colloquium, “Sowing the Seeds: Decolonial Practices and Pedagogies.” Editing this issue as 2019 nears the close of a decade, we are struck by the persistent theme that runs across this issue: remembering,…
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Gender Politics in Iran and the Last Forty Years: Eleven Stories
Frontiers is pleased to present a special online issue addressing gender politics in Iran in the last forty years following the 1979 Iran Revolution.
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Announcement: New Co-Editor Darius Bost
2020 marks change at Frontiers, a Women Studies Journal. It is an honor to introduce a new partnership in the Frontiers Editorial Collective, Professor Darius Bost.
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“World”-Making and “World”-Travelling with Decolonial Feminisms and Women of Color
Guest Editors: Wanda Alarcón, Dalida María Benfield, Annie Isabel Fukushima, Marcelle Maese
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You’re Dead – So What?
This book provides an empirical study of media and law enforcement bias in reporting and investigating homicides of African American women compared with their white counterparts. The author discusses the symbiotic relationship between media coverage and the response from law enforcement to victims of color, particularly when these victims are reported missing and presumed to be in danger by their…
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As We Have Always Done
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. She makes clear that the goal of Indigenous resistance can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic, calling for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state.
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Evidence of Being
Evidence of Being is an important book that should impact the contours of Black and Queer Studies. Bost’s recuperation of the history of black gay cultural expression opens new lines of inquiry for scholars concerned with black sexuality, loss, history, and memory. Readers will find Evidence of Being moving, theoretically rich, and original.
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Reproductive Justice and Health
Reproductive justice health remains a top priority globally and requires proactive involvement, voice, protest, leadership, policy advocacy, research and scholarship to activate and maintain reproductive health access, information, and rights.
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Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
"Perceptions" joins the burgeoning dialogue about how we see women’s reproductive potential and engagement as manifested both socially and culturally.
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Staging Feminist Futures
This special volume seeks essays that explore possibilities for staging feminist futurities through performance-based forms of theatre, film and video, dance, music, performance art, solo performance and community engaged performance.
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Eli Erlick
Eli Erlick, author of "Technologizing Gender: Trans Youth Activism on the Internet", is the director of a national youth-led organization dedicated to transforming the educational environment for trans students, where her work emphasizes transgender youth activism, education, and media.
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World-Making and World-Traveling with Decolonial Feminisms and Women of Color
This special issue invites contributions of works that share diverse modes of decolonial feminist praxis in relation to the lifeworks of philosopher María Lugones.