How We Write Now
Black mothers are the public face and embodiment of loss. They constantly live on the edge, anticipating the sudden but not unexpected loss of their Black sons and men at the hands of the state’s legal system. Since the Black Lives Matter Movement, Black feminists have sharpened theorizing of loss as an intense Black aesthetic concerning predictable forms of anti-Black ...
Voices Relevant for Our Times
In anticipation of the journal’s 50th anniversary in 2025, the Editorial Collective is featuring “Voices Relevant for Our Times,” a revisiting of past Frontiers essays that speak to current topics in culture, politics, and feminism.
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Who Would Believe a Prisoner?
Before readers even open its front cover, Who Would Believe a Prisoner? poses a powerful epistemological question about how institutions function through the repression of marginalized voices. The title quotes Harrie Banka, whose 1871 exposé of systematic corruption and sexual abuse at Indiana’s Jeffersonville State Prison accelerated Reconstruction Era calls t...
Speak the Lessons and Outlast All Haters! Asian American Women and Higher Ed Leadership
Factually, there are bars I must live under that other leaders do not. To lead as a woman of color means the guarantee that people belittle you no matter your pedigree, undermine you no matter your expertise and preparation, invalidate you no matter your beyond exceptional productivity.
The Color Pynk
Through this work, Tinsley offers “a loving, lingering note on Black femmes’ poetics of survival in the Trump era and beyond.”
We Are Owed.
In her debut full-length poetry collection, We Are Owed., Ariana Brown steps into her own inheritance as a griot and medium as she weaves together vignettes of her experiences.
America, Goddam
Treva B. Lindsey’s America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice provides an in-depth examination of the lived experiences of Black women throughout the history of the United States.
Sasinda Futhi Siselapha (still Here): Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty Six Years Since 1994
Sasinda Futhi Siselapha (Still Here) is an edited volume of interdisciplinary scholars who work on ‘post-apartheid’ South Africa. The strength of the edited volume lies in the authors’ commitment to what feminist scholar Amina Mama calls the idea of activist scholarship.
Molly Benitez
Molly Benitez, PhD, is an assistant professor at Portland State University in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. Within their research they work to trace an alternative genealogy of affect theory through the work of women of color and queer of color theorists.
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again proceeds from a provocative premise: that, perhaps, too much emphasis is placed on women’s speech in our contemporary discussions about sex.
William Mosley
William Mosley is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Mosley’s research on Black queer expressive culture addresses the feminist and political implications of transgender and genderfluid art, activism, and literature.
The Divorce Colony
April White’s The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier tells the stories of four elite women who, when they moved to North Dakota in order to obtain divorces, found themselves at the center of controversy and gossip.
2023 NWSA Women of Color Caucus – Frontiers Student Essay Award
The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in partnership with Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites paper submissions for the 2023 NWSA Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay Award.
The purpose of this award is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging...
**DEADLINE EXTENDED** Frontiers at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Knowledge Production
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies was founded in Boulder, Colorado, in 1975 and was housed in the Women's Studies department at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Frontiers began as a volunteer-based organization to bridge academic and community-based feminist knowledge and corresponded with a local movement among students, faculty, and community ...
Honour-based Violence and Forced Marriages
Honour-based Violence and Forced Marriages: Community and Restorative Practices in Europe by Clara Rigoni explains issues that are truly relevant in our modern world. The book is mostly about such urgent matters as violation of human rights (especially those of women and children) in gender-based violence.
Hossein Nazari & Fateme Nazari
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. Issue 43.3 highlights authors Hossein Nazari, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, and Fateme Nazari, M.A., University of Tehran.
Dressed for Freedom
This fascinating and timely work will have you think twice about the clothes you put on every day. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox asks readers to take another look at twentieth-century fashion – this time, with a feminist lens.
Cara Delay & Beth Sundstrom
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. Issue 43.2 highlights authors Cara Delay, Professor of History at the College of Charleston, and Beth Sundstrom, Associate Professor of Communication and Public Health at the College of Charleston.
Book Review: Glitch Feminism & Wild Things in Conversation
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell and Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Professor Jack Halberstam are two texts that you would not initially draw comparisons between. Russell’s primary f...
Ruby Chacón
Ruby Chacón is a community muralist, artist and teacher. She co founded Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts-MICA in 2003 in Salt Lake City. Through the organization she worked in partnership with University of Utah faculty as an artist in residence with Mestizo Arts and Activism-MAA, a youth collective.
Desert Chrome
Wilder’s Desert Chrome has a similar power that other memoirs have had in feminist theorizing, in that she uses the personal – writing as a witness – to build the threads that run through her narrative and guides her advocacy on the land.
Clelia O. Rodríguez
Clelia O. Rodríguez Ph.D., is a global scholar, speaker, mom and auntie, born and raised in the ancestral lands of the Nawat, the Chorti-Maya and the Lenka Peoples, what is presently El Salvador. She is the founder of SEEDS for Change, an educational transnational collective bringing together Black, Indigenous and People of Colour to co-create pedagogies of liberation.
Medicine Stories
Aurora Levins Morales’s book sets the reader up on a journey through her teachings and knowledges that she has gained over the years as a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi Jewish activist. This newly revised edition that expands on the original 1998 version, takes into consideration and subtly comments on the current political, social and activists’ climate.
Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
In Beyond the Periphery of the Skin, Federici looks at the ways in which the appropriation of women’s bodies is not merely supplementary to the regime of capitalism, but it is only by embedding women’s bodies within debates of reproduction, social organisation and workforce discipline, that capitalism can perform its hegemony.
Jennifer E. Cossyleon
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 general issue 42.2 highlights author Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay Award.
K. Allison Hammer
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 highlights author K. Allison Hammer Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University.
Staging Black Fugitivity
McCormick presents a case for a deep investigation of how black theatre and performance discusses the remnants of slavery, questioning “the tensions of American citizenship and the limits of black freedom.”
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.
Staging Feminist Futures
From the general collection, Marjorie Maddox Hafer, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University, published Four Poems under pen name Marjorie Maddox, “Age-Based Connotations”, “In the Company of Women”, “Pro-Choice”, and “Re-Vision”. In Frontiers Augmented we present “Hyphen”, a fifth poem as part of her collection with Frontiers.
Thinking, Talking, Writing Collectively
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.
The Making of The Celine Archive Movie
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.
Beauty Diplomacy
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 honing-in on the industry’s role in diplomacy, nationalism, and international politics.
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.
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 loved ones.
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.
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.
From Angel to Office Worker
Susie S. Porter’s newest monograph, From Angel to Office Worker, Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950, is an important piece of scholarship that unapologetically emphasizes that women’s history is labor history and that labor history is women’s history.
Dr. Donna J. Haraway
Listen to Dr. Donna Haraway and Dr. Kimberly Jew’s dialogue on theoretical, methodological, and literary explorations into not only what it means to live as human beings in a multispecies world, but what it could (or, perhaps should) mean in a not-so-distant future.