“Publishing feminisms” encompasses a wide range of topics and areas of inquiry, including but not limited to the list below. We welcome presentations from scholars, activists, creators in all fields; from students, faculty, publishers, content creators, and publishing activists.
-- How people within publishing have pushed back against the (white, Western, Eurocentric, patriarchal) norms
-- How people through their published works have pushed back against the (white, Western, Eurocentric, patriarchal) norms
-- Questions about genres, canons, and textual forms
-- Politics / processes of publishing, history of the book
-- How publications have changed over time in their material forms, the ways they’ve been interpreted and used, how they've circulated and been censored
-- Underground/alternative publishing
-- Digital publishing, social media as publishing
-- Teaching about publishing
-- Your experiences working on publications / within the publishing industry
Publishing as a feminist praxis engages a number of points outlined in the CFP: publishing and publications have long been central to movements for liberation and to imagining liberatory worlds. The texts we create, edit, and circulate also help us do important and difficult solidarity work, giving us paths to "cross those lines to
freedom, to traverse the many borders, binaries and boundaries that separate
us, to bridge those gaps across generations, to flip the scripts that confine
our identities, and to build coalitions around our differences."
This year, we're focusing on two sub-themes, and we'll propose 1 or 2 panels depending on the response:
Sub-theme 3: Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-imagining: Past, Present, FutureSub-theme 6: Creativity as Dissidence & Resistance
Please note that NWSA does not appear to have a virtual presentation component this year.
If you’re interested in presenting, please complete this form by March 12.
If you have questions, you're welcome to contact Agatha Beins, the interest group chair, at abeins@twu.edu.
