Sarah Lamble's “Carceral Diagonalism: The Punitive Safety Politics Linking Left & Right Transnational Anti-Gender Mobilizations” unpacks carceral logics exhibited by the “cross-political, anti-transgender alliances within the global 'anti-gender' movement” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Check out Iftikhar Dadi’s article “Shirin Neshat’s Photographs as Postcolonial Allegories” in Signs 34 No. 1, analyzing Neshat’s “iconic portraits of willfully armed Muslim women [and] the role of martyrdom & women in the Revolution” #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Vol 51, No 3 includes Sophie Chamas’ “The Devil’s in Decline: Western Anti-Gender Politics and the Evolution of Queerphobia in Lebanon,” looking at a 2023 surge in queerphobia as “convergence and entanglement with a growing Western anti-gender movement.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
For #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth revisit our virtual issue “Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, & Their Diasporas” for artwork and scholarly articles addressing the complexities of women's lives in Arab countries & diasporas signsjournal.org/features/vir...
Amid #WHM, check out “Right-Wing Times: Fascism, Left/Right Convergences, and the Relationship of “Gender-Critical” to Anti-Gender" by Alyosxa Tudor dissects transnational "so-called gender-critical feminist mobilizations www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Check out our the article “Theorizing Contemporary Anti-Gender Politics: Transnational Resistance, Solidarities, and Futures; An Introduction” by Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok, addressing “anti-gender” politics & modes of feminist resistance #WHM www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Our Feminist Coalition Archive Project puts together analysis & resources for feminist resistance. For #WHM, check out The Anti-Trans Executive Orders collection, including academia, a legal and health service directory, historical accounts & activist guides. signsjournal.org/feministresi...
During this #WHM, amid big-tech incorporation & funding cuts to feminist scholarship, we want to amplify our Ask A Feminist podcast, “Public Feminism, a Conversation with Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler,” which dissects what it means to be a public feminist now. signsjournal.org/public-femin...
For #WHM, check out the in-depth Ask a Feminist: “Malala Yousafzai on the Frontlines: Exploring Contemporary Issues, Rights, and Resilience of Pashtun Women Under Patriarchy and Taliban Influence,” interview with Malala and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai. signsjournal.org/malala-yousa...
Beyond cliché and consumerism, what if self-love were a way to imagine alternative futures? Tarushi Sonthalia’s new piece explores self-love as radical praxis through Baldwin, Lorde, Jordan & Leone Ross. Read it here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
Join us for a conversation with @libbyadler.bsky.social and @kjrawson.bsky.social on Trump’s anti-trans and anti-gender executive orders. Check out our new Ask a Feminist here! (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
Essentialist feminism and far-right movements are aligning in new ways. Sonia Corrêa on Brazil’s post-Bolsonaro moment and the renewed assault on trans rights (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
In the new issue of Signs, Alyosxa Tudor links anti-trans/anti-gender politics with anti-immigration and anti-Palestine frames, showing how they help consolidate today’s fascist projects. Check it out here! (sub. req’d) buff.ly/EnaLrDO
When “protecting women” becomes a carceral logic: Sarah Lamble shows how left and right converge in anti‑trans politics through shared ideas of punishment and safety. Read her new article here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
How do Western anti-gender movements shape queerphobia beyond their borders? Sophie Chamas’s article traces how Lebanon’s 2023 moral panic reflects global entanglements of power and ideology (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
Mapping how anti-feminist and anti-queer movements are unfolding in the Gulf, and what resistance looks like on the ground, Nour Almazidi’s new piece pushes back against Eurocentric narratives of anti-gender politics. Check it out in Signs’ spring issue (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social trace the transnational patterns of anti-gender and anti-trans politics worldwide, and the solidarities pushing back. Read their introduction here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
Around the world, anti-gender movements are growing, but so is the resistance. For teaching, organizing, and reflecting on this moment, explore Signs’ spring issue (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
Check out the symposium: “Interventions in Transnational Anti-Gender Politics and Resistance” in the new issue of Signs! We bring together feminist, queer, and decolonial analyses of the global anti-gender backlash, and the movements fighting it. Read it here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
New Signs is out now! Contemporary anti‑gender politics, money and markets, and how self-love might be more than an individual project—all in one issue. Check it out here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
In 2021, the Short Takes forum on “Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom,” offers radical legal & political methods of fighting for reproductive justice from scholars, with responses from the lawyers who wrote it. #WHM
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After Roe v. Wade was overturned, SIGNS put together a collection of resources on abortion & reproductive justice. For #WHM, amid ongoing anti-abortion campaigns & systematic sexual control of bodies, we hope it can inspire feminist thought, discourse, & resistance. signsjournal.org/abortion-res...
Signs’s new Ask a Feminist on pronatalism examines the system of cultural, religious, and state pressures that turns reproduction into unpaid service to the nation, church, and market.
Well worth a listen
“This notion among pronatalists that there are certain communities that seem to be dying out: Now, that’s not actually the case… In the United States, you see this as being very much racialized, being packaged in white nationalism.” Read/listen to @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social‘s full analysis.
"Why and who would call [declining birth rates] a crisis? It’s the people who have relied for millennia on women’s reproductive labor to produce laborers, consumers, taxpayers, soldiers, religious followers." --Nandita Bajaj, Executive Director of @popnbalance.bsky.social
When billionaires warn that “civilization” will end if women have fewer children, we should ask: Whose civilization? Our guests Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social connect Musk-style panic to white nationalism, eugenics, and patriarchal control.
To kick off #WHM, we have a new Ask a Feminist on Pronatalism featuring Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social! What is pronatalism? What are its links to eugenic thinking? And why is it incompatible with feminism? Read/listen at the link!
In 2020, SIGNS released #BlackLivesMatter: Resources for the Uprising, a collection of articles on racism, the carceral state & antiracist feminist organizing. For #BHM, we hope it provokes thought about the past, present & the possibilities for an antiracist feminist future. signsjournal.org/blm/
“Black lesbian study is one genealogy, one praxis for sustaining a life-giving set of relations.” Olivia R. Polk's piece “Toward Black Lesbian Study" from “Lesbian Studies, Next” explores the vitality of Black lesbian writing traditions #BHM
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