The Winter 2026 SIGNS Journal issue is now available! This issue provides a rich commentary on the nature of feminist resistance informed by ethnographic research, including a special Ask a Feminist interview with Malala Yousafzai and her father. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”
Die "Caren #Miosga"- Redaktion hat mir schnell geantwortet. Bin nun umso mehr irritiert: #Rechtsextremismus darf für Demokrat:innen niemals "umstritten" sein, sondern ist selbstverständlich mit klarer Haltung abzulehnen. Egal in wie vielen Parlamenten Rechtsextremist:innen sitzen. #noAfD #ARD
What did Audre Lorde say about the power of the erotic?
Diese unfassbar mutigen jungen Frauen.
Diese unfassbar widerwärtigen Typen.
Dieses unfassbar räudige System, das sie geschützt hat.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward.
spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...
Check out Sally Kitch’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019,” which reflects on the ways women’s studies intersects with (or diverges from) social activism. Read the full essay here: signsjournal.org/kitch/
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Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.
A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
oil painting La mujer barbuda/Magdalena Ventura con su marido; a bearded woman nursing her baby while standing up. Queer in/visibility in pink, plus a QR code to the conference website
Call for Papers, please circulate!
Ethics of queer in/visibility
Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026
queer-in-visibility.de
Keynote speakers:
J Calder
(Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder)
Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social
(History, University of Warwick)
Eine Gruppe von Professor:innen forderte in einem Brief an die Hochschulleitung der HU Berlin den Schutz eines ihrer Kollegen, dem mehrere Personen Machtmissbrauch, zum Teil sexualisierte Übergriffigkeit vorgeworfen hatten. Ein Brief, der zahlreiche Fragen aufwirft. Unsere Stellungnahme dazu:
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Europäische Frauenbewegungszeitschriften, Foto: privat.
Alina Müller hat für z|o mit den Initiatorinnen des Forschungsprojekts „FemMag – Feminist Magazines in Western Europe“ Sonja Levsen und Kassandra Hammel über den aktuellen Stand des Projekts sowie Chancen und Herausforderungen gesprochen.
➡️ tinyurl.com/bmu4d892
Photo of various zines on a black surface
Riot Grrrl zines, continuation of a long tradition of feminist alternative and grassroots publishing, designs and artworks #womensart
'The evidence review accompanying the strategy identifies universities as effective settings for prevention interventions, with the strongest evidence base around bystander programmes aimed at preventing sexual violence.'
„So forderte der polnische Botschafter in Deutschland einen Mitarbeiter einer deutschen Gedenkstätte dazu auf, Rossoliński-Liebes geplanten Vortrag in der Berliner Gedenkstätte Topographie des Terrors Ende November abzusagen, was dann auch geschah.„
Yep. Every day is a good day for sharing serious bibliographical work. 💡🙏👇👇👇✍️
🔴 Gestern wurde im Kulturausschuss des Bundestages über die künftige Gedenkstättenkonzeption beraten.
❓Eine zentrale Frage war, ob auch die Aufarbeitung der Kolonialverbrechen aufgenommen werden soll.
▶ Einen Mittschnitt und die Stellungnahmen der Sachverständigen findet ihr hier: bit.ly/4joxlSN
Today is the official publication day of our Shattered Liberation co-edited volume. It is open access and already available for free download in your libraries. This book wouldn't be possible without the expertise and perseverance of our brilliant contributors. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712195/
❗Jetzt im Parlamentsfernsehen - Anhörung zu der Gedenkstättenkonzeption des Bundes ⬇️
www.bundestag.de/mediathek/live
At the National Library of Lithuania today and tomorrow to discuss imperial family violence in 19th & 20th centuries with @mmuravyeva.bsky.social @joannabourke.bsky.social and other colleagues and friends 📃https://blogs.helsinki.fi/fourepochsofviolence/program/
Held between 20-24 October 1975, the World Congress for the International Women's Year in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) saw sex equality as inseparable from struggles against other systemic forms of violence, such as racism, colonialism, and global economic inequalities. #FeministHistory
Das Schweigen über Wehrmachtsbordelle
Viele europäische Frauen wurden im Zweiten Weltkrieg von deutschen Soldaten zur Prostitution gezwungen. Nach dem Krieg erhielten sie keinerlei Entschädigung. Warum?
Von Deborah Hohmann
www.spiegel.de/geschichte/z...
Interview übrigens hier zu sehen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gka7...
Ein persönlicher Bericht, warum die SWR "Recherche" über #MeToo und Machtmissbrauch in der Klassik so gar nicht geht:
metooklassik.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/a...
#ReportMainz
Book Cover The other side of silence, Duke UP 2000.
Had dinner with Urvashi Butalia last week, discussing SVAC. Now re-reading
The Other Side of Silence. Voices from the Partition of India.
Such a brilliant book. Not only for the insights it offers but also for the ways she gives the historical actors room to speak for themselves
A feminist classic
Interested in gender & military?
Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there.
This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-and...
