8 days left to propose streams for our 2026 conference MAKE (Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies). Key Dates: — Stream proposals due March 31 — Paper abstracts due May 22 — “Making Matters” proposals (installations, performances, workshops, film/music, etc.) due May 22

Full house at Duke Feminist Theory Workshop #19 @dukegsfs.bsky.social

Feminist Studies is hiring a managing editor! Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

‘My lovely distraction’: Live stream of kākāpō – world’s fattest parrot – and her chicks captivates New Zealand

Join us Friday, March 6 for History under Siege!

RIP Frederick Wiseman <3 <3

Submit now for MAKE (Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies). October 23-25 in Vancouver, Canada, located at/around the downtown Simon Fraser University campus. Stream proposals: Due March 31. Paper abstracts: Due May 22. Non-paper intervention: Due by May 22 More: affectsociety.com/make/

Interested in women's & gender studies? You can now apply to join our MA Women's Studies 2026-27 cohort at @ucc.ie. Use the QR code below or find out more via www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/. March 12th is the GOI-IES fellowship deadline. #UCC #womensstudies #genderstudies #Ireland #postgraduate #MA

🖋️ Upcoming Conference Alert!! Society for the Study of Affect... 'MAKE'...Vancouver...October 23-25. More details to come in the next week! Yes, affect conferences have the best vibes. Let's see what we can MAKE in Vancouver...rerouting the (worst) timelines of the present.

From the Archives: The Deborah E. McDowell papers, available for research. McDowell is Alice Griffin Prof. Emerita of Literary Studies at UVA. Image is a program from Toni Morrison's 70th birthday, signed by Morrison, Ann DuCille, & Hortense Spillers. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...

RIP Carla Freccero. You were feisty & fabulous. Brilliant & bold. You thought my usage of the word 'oeuvre' was annoying (OK, ça va, I give you that one!), but read my and other folks' work with an eye for detail & care and embodied a type of intellectual generosity that is rarely found in academia.

Nostalgic for snow days rather than shift to remote days.

The annual Feminist Studies grad prize is open for submissions! December 31st deadline. Please spread the word.

If you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you at Limits of Legibility #3!

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:2-3). Read it for free: buff.ly/hj5wL6r

Wishing you all a peaceful moment today! www.criterion.com/current/post...

"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv

differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

One of my favorite things about Feminist Studies is our commitment to art. We regularly publish art essays with full color spreads of art work (have an idea to pitch us? Please send!) and our covers are stunning. Shout out to Duy-Khuong Van, our graphic designer.

Winter 2026 issue is coming soon!

We are now accepting submissions for Volume Three of Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry. Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit! Intarsia is peer-reviewed, open-access, and student-led. It is sponsored by @emorywgss.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social

I have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l... Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Queer Class/Room Symposium University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA April 15 and 16, 2026 Due date for proposals: November 15, 2025 Keynote: Justin Torres queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu/graduate-stu...

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

Our first faculty book launch of the year is just around the corner! Join us for a discussion of @emorycollege.bsky.social Philsophy Prof. Lynne Huffer's new multi-media monograph "These Survivals: An Autobiography of Extinction" (@dukepress.bsky.social) 📚 RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/u9LDySx3FC

Our friends in Emory Film and Media are taking us back 50 years with this fall's Emory Cinematheque 1975, celebrating releases from that memorable year. Screenings, which are free and open to the public, happen every Wednesday at 7:30 pm in White Hall 208. Full schedule: https://bit.ly/41I3QUj

Come work with us! Emory Graduate Students - apply by September 9th: tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Reminder! Sept 1 deadline!

A fellowship at the National Humanities Center isn't just a break from teaching or a change of scenery. It's an opportunity to draft chapters, reimagine arguments, and follow ideas into unexpected terrain. Application Deadline: October 2, 2025 Learn more: bit.ly/nhc-scholarly-programs

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Announcing The Parapraxis Film Festival Friday, September 19 - Thursday, September 25, 2025 361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn at @lightindustry.bsky.social Organized by Perwana Nazif and Hannah Zeavin For program, speaker list, & ticketing information: lightindustry.org/parapraxis

From the pen of the very talented @wrisley.bsky.social recently graduated from @emorywgss.bsky.social and now faculty at WGSX at St Mary’s College, Maryland.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

We are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05... @differences.bsky.social

Oh, this is really great: new poetry from @differences.bsky.social managing editor, the super talented @scottjackshaw.bsky.social "apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex" @talonbooks.bsky.social talonbooks.com/books/stigmata

Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online: forms.gle/1CuqBvkBQe1g...

📣 MEET THE 2025–26 LIFE/STORY FELLOWS 📣⁠ The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Fellows, who will be joining us during our Life/Story theme year! 🌟 Learn more about our incoming fellows & their projects: bit.ly/3IhaoSM

Post 1/4. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University, the landmark sex discrimination case that changed the face of Brown. Lamphere was an assistant professor of anthropology who was denied tenure. ‪@brown.edu‬ @brownanthro.bsky.social‬

To read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.social‬ ‪@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social‬

How about: Silvan Tomkins Handbook (Frank & Wilson) www.upress.umn.edu/978081668000... + The User Unconscious (Clough) www.upress.umn.edu/978151790422... + Political Affect (Protevi) www.upress.umn.edu/978081666510...

SIS Call for Summer Proposals! For faculty & graduate students working in areas related to race, sexuality, and gender! Proposal deadline is June 30, 2025. Please send proposals to [email protected], with your name, department, rank or year, and theme for proposal.

Worn out by an afternoon in front of microfilm, but did locate terrific series of letters from Solanas to her college newspaper in 1957 “my pen is dipped in blood”

Finally my essay on a 5E approach to mental distress in adversity is published! It is open access at doi.org/10.1177/1363...

"Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality" is dedicated to the memory of Selamawit D. Terrefe.

differences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

We’ve had so many great conversations, proposals, and ideas come to us already— we love learning what cutting edge ECRs are up to and need in the field, and we love the creative ideas we’ve been fielding from already established authors. @jennifercnash.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social