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  • Frontiers Augmented
  • Meet the Author,  Popular Posts

    K. Allison Hammer

    July 25, 2021

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Book Reviews,  Popular Posts

    Staging Black Fugitivity

    June 17, 2021

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Editors' Statements,  News and Updates,  Popular Posts

    A Frontiers Conversation in the aftermath of the Atlanta Shootings

    March 31, 2021

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Meet the Author,  Popular Posts

    Staging Feminist Futures

    March 17, 2021

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Meet the Author,  Popular Posts

    Thinking, Talking, Writing Collectively

    January 13, 2021

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Editors' Statements,  Popular Posts

    The Making of The Celine Archive Movie

    October 14, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Book Reviews,  Popular Posts

    Beauty Diplomacy

    October 5, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Editors' Statements,  News and Updates

    Hot off the Press: Volume 41 Issue 2

    September 30, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Editors' Statements,  Popular Posts

    Gender Politics in Iran and the Last Forty Years: Eleven Stories

    June 11, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Editors' Statements

    Announcement: New Co-Editor Darius Bost

    June 8, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Editors' Statements

    “World”-Making and “World”-Travelling with Decolonial Feminisms and Women of Color

    June 3, 2020

    Guest Editors: Wanda Alarcón, Dalida María Benfield, Annie Isabel Fukushima, Marcelle Maese

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    Silvia Solis
  • Book Reviews,  Popular Posts

    You’re Dead – So What?

    June 2, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
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    As We Have Always Done

    May 15, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Book Reviews,  Popular Posts

    Evidence of Being

    February 11, 2020

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Editors' Statements

    Reproductive Justice and Health

    July 8, 2019

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Book Reviews

    Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

    April 21, 2019

    "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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    Silvia Solis
  • Archive,  Call for Papers

    Staging Feminist Futures

    December 7, 2018

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Meet the Author,  Popular Posts

    Eli Erlick

    November 14, 2018

    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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    Silvia Solis
  • Archive,  Call for Papers

    World-Making and World-Traveling with Decolonial Feminisms and Women of Color

    September 2, 2018

    This special issue invites contributions of works that share diverse modes of decolonial feminist praxis in relation to the lifeworks of philosopher María Lugones.

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    Silvia Solis

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