{"id":7977,"date":"2023-06-07T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:01:25","slug":"call-for-submissions-rage-struggle-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/call-for-submissions-rage-struggle-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions: Rage, Struggle, Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Submissions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Scholar and Feminist Online
\n<\/i><\/b>Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love
\n<\/b>Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, Guest Editors<\/b><\/p>\n

Deadline to Submit
\n<\/b>October 2, 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

The Scholar and Feminist Online <\/span><\/i>is pleased to invite you to submit your work to our first-ever open call for a special issue on transnational feminist struggles and solidarities guest edited by Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, tentatively titled \u201cRage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love.\u201d <\/span>The Scholar and Feminist Online <\/span><\/i>is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women since 2003. Download the call or read below.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the Issue<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

We find ourselves in an era that is marked by an unparalleled state of affairs. We live engulfed in a prevailing \u2018culture of killing\u2019 rooted in direct and indirect disregard for the profound value of all that live in the present and generations to come. This culture of killing threatens and destroys the natural world and human beings worldwide by the on-going extraction and exploitation of natural and human resources, the globalized trend toward militarism and armed conflict, the misogynist and racist violence enacted directly and indirectly by both state, non-state, and social actors. Our intention with this special issue is to consider how transnational feminist political struggle and thinking can offer a way forward in this moment of crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Vision for this Special Issue<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By synthesizing the politics of love, anger, and resistance with hope and a steadfast dedication to meaningful freedom, feminist scholars and activists in the current century present numerous possibilities for a world markedly distinct from the one we now confront, unlocking the potential for abundant rewards. We believe that as feminists we have a responsibility for future generations, as well in the present time, to continue to struggle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Feminist scholars and revolutionaries have re-\/awakened the value of methodologies that include mythology, emotion, meta- and the non-material. Scholars, activists, and artists such as Vanessa Thompson, bell hooks, Mari Matsuda, Hakima Abbas, Xhercis Mendez, Pregs Govender, Audre Lorde, and the Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement have endeavored to link the transformation of societal structures, institutions, and systems with the practice of love and rage as a radical feminist praxis. Notably, Jineoloj\u00ee, which is the science of women and knowledge production developed by the Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement over many years of practical resistance and struggle, has contributed significantly to this discourse. These thinkers and methods generate alternatives to capitalist state-based modernity, which is rooted in individualism, transactional relationships, materialism, consumerism, and many forms of alienation from ourselves and the world, around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our goal is to showcase feminist movements and political thought from various parts of the world that demonstrate the influences, roles, and contributions historically and in the economic, political movements led by women, trans, and nonbinary people. We believe in the critical importance of connecting between and among global, regional, local, and on-the-ground struggles and resistances \u2013 historically, in our present and for our future. The layered, complex, and, often contradictory, relationship between ideology, political practice, and personal, interpersonal, and social relations\u00a0 on these multiple scales is a richness rather than a limitation. By taking this approach , we hope to learn from those experiences and integrate those lessons into our own work at this critical juncture \u2013 including how to deal with contradictions in political thought, movements, and our lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To this end, we seek submissions from activists, artists, musicians, poets and creative writers, revolutionaries, and scholars that respond to these questions and others you may have in this seemingly unprecedented historic time. We welcome written scholarly articles, individual and movement reflections, and opinion pieces. We also enthusiastically encourage art, poems, and video and creative multimedia forms. <\/span>See below for submission guidelines.<\/b><\/p>\n

Our Questions and Background<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n