Publications
Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures
Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske '18
This issue of S&F Online invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what? How must our everyday conversations, celebrations, and community creations lead us on a path toward transformative approaches to safety and healing?
Read MoreRadical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour
Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba
The Radical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour was researched by Asha Futterman with support from Mariame Kaba, with map design by Arrianna Planey, and publication design by Neta Bomani. This tour guide is designed for educational and organizing use by students, educators, and community members.
Read MoreNeurogenderings
Rebecca Jordan-Young, Giordana Grossi, and Gina Rippon
What happens when we approach the brain as a shared object of perplexity? What happens when neuroscientists take the time and effort to reflect upon the past, present, and future progress within their own field? What happens when the question of how to study sex and/or gender differences in the brain is opened up to interdisciplinary perspectives and is not treated as a given? What if dissensus in neuroscience research is seen as an opportunity to think about science, bodies, and technologies otherwise?
Read MoreImmigrants and Refugees Are Welcome Here: A Resource Guide for Service Providers Working with Immigrants who are LGBTQ, Sex Workers, and/or HIV-Positive
Amber Hollibaugh, Queer Survival Economies
This resource guide is intended for service providers to improve their competency to better assist clients in these dangerous times, and reduce secondary traumas in their practice. It is intended as a living document to be used and adapted based on feedback from clients, community members, activists, and service providers, as well as changes to our political landscape.
Read MoreWomen and Community in Early Modern Europe: Approaches and Perspectives
Laurie Postlewate, Lori J. Walters, and Christine McWebb
The latest issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, entitled "Women and Community in Early Modern Europe: Approaches and Perspectives," explores how we can broaden our study and understanding of the roles and identities women forged for themselves within social collectives.
Read MoreResponding to Violence, Restoring Justice
Tiloma Jayasinghe and Erin Ward
Table of Contents Introduction Feminist anti-violence movement development towards incarceration Criminalization and the feminist anti-violence movement The neoliberal carceral state Prison abolition Community-based alternatives Intersectionality and the feminist anti-violence movement Organizational directory Introduction At a promising moment in the history of the feminist anti-violence movement, a number of activist organizations are carving new means to […]
Read MoreFeminist and Queer Afro/Asian Formations
Vanita Reddy and Anantha Sudhakar
This issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, “Feminist and Queer Afro-Asian Formations,” edited by Vanita Reddy and Anantha Sudhakar, marks a key intervention into Afro-Asian studies, one that insists upon centering a feminist and queer framework.
Read MoreThinking Queer Activism Transnationally
Gema Pérez-Sánchez and Brenna Munro
This issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, edited by Gema Pérez-Sánchez and Brenna Munro, theorizes and engages with queer activism across national boundaries and between the Global North and Global South. Grappling with ideas and issues including transnational solidarity, human rights, coalitional politics, im/migration, diaspora, borders, and imperalism, contributors offer examples of multi-directional, multi-vocal, strategic, and affective activist practices for a transnational queer activist agenda.
Read MoreThe Crisis of Criminalization: A Call for a Comprehensive Philanthropic Response
Andrea Ritchie and Beth Richie
This report calls for immediate, concerted, comprehensive, sustained, cross-sector, collaborative philanthropic response to the growing crisis of criminalization, and outlines strategies to more effectively tackle criminalization and mass incarceration, to stop the spread of surveillance and punishment, and to meet the challenges of the current political climate.
Read MoreQueer/Religion
Elizabeth Castelli
This issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, edited by Elizabeth A. Castelli, brings together scholarship rooted in Queer Studies and Religious Studies, exploring the intersections of these areas of inquiry which are too-often constructed as entirely separate. The contributions to this volume are largely drawn from a BCRW-convening entitled “At the Intersection of Queer Studies and Religion,” held in November 2013. Together, these short essays contribute to a theoretical and empirical cartography for mapping the terrain at the intersections of queer studies and religion.
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