[acc-cca-l] Call for Submissions: "Palestine and Campus Movements: Sites of Transnational Feminist Solidarities"

[Asmaa Malik]

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***DEADLINE APPROACHING: Nov. 15, 2024***

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Gatherings, "Palestine and Campus Movements: Sites of Transnational Feminist Solidarities<https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/gatherings/news.html>"

Dear colleagues,

In solidarity with the ongoing work of students, faculty members, activists and scholars on university campuses, in a climate where speaking out against the ongoing genocide in Palestine often invites intense scrutiny and administrative action, I am co-editing the second issue of Gatherings, an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist journal, entitled "Palestine and Campus Movements: Sites of Transnational Feminist Solidarities<https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/gatherings/news.html>," along with my co-editors Besan Jaber (Georgetown University) and Amy Shore (Oswego State University) (bios<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBbI-khbmPNRSdOXt0eAC3bngwJYRd_5WCL289_CrrA/edit#heading=h.wwfjbzygtxqn>).

“To be Palestinian right now is to feel betrayed by those who remain silent, whatever their reasons, and to feel gratitude and hope from those who have spoken up,” writes journalist Laila Al-Arian. Across disciplines and backgrounds, academics and activists have gathered and mobilized in support of the student movement and encampments across the globe, demanding their protection and the broader protection of speech on campus. Solidarity movements with Palestine aiming to decenter settler and nation-state formations and institutions, illuminate how Palestinian liberation is connected with the liberation of all oppressed and marginalized people. Palestinians’ visions of freedom, steadfastness, and dignity have fueled and inspired these solidarity movements and actions. It is what Sarah Ihmoud describes as “decolonial Palestinian feminism” that teaches us love and care in the time of genocide. As Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Wahab, and El-Issa note in their 2022 essay, Palestine “is a global compass of feminist ethics, an intellectual tool for analyzing contours of injustice, and an intervention strategy for liberation.”

Amidst the continuous and intensifying surveillance and criminalization of any speech in solidarity with Palestine on college campuses, a growing number of scholars and activists continue to advocate  for justice in Palestine. Many have called for a renewed commitment to transnational feminist solidarity, urging feminists to recognize and address the interconnectedness of their struggles with those of Palestinians. Loubna Qutami reminds us that “a feminist practice of bearing witness means we defiantly record, remember, survive, and resist.” In that spirit, Gatherings invites scholars, artists, and activists to reflect on this campus-based transnational activism.

We welcome submissions in the form of traditional research articles, as well as essays, memoir, interviews, video or audio pieces, artwork, and other formats that can be published digitally. We encourage contributors to engage with Palestinian-created and allied work, including social media, journalism, works of art, popular culture, and critical theory. We are also interested in student and faculty collaborations.

You can find the complete CfS here: https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/gatherings/news.html. We are accepting abstract submissions until Nov. 15, 2024. Completed accepted works are expected to be submitted by April 15, 2025

If you have questions or inquiries about this CFS or Gatherings, please reach out to me. We would appreciate it if you would share this Call for Submissions widely.

Thank you,
Asmaa Malik
Co-Editor, Gatherings
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Asmaa Malik (she/her)


Associate Professor,
Journalism


Graduate Program Director,

Documentary Media


Guest co-editor, Gatherings

Call for Submissions<https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/gatherings/news.html>: "Palestine and Campus Movements: Sites of Transnational Feminist Solidarities" (abstracts due Nov. 15)


Recent publications:

  *   "Attacks on Press Freedoms Have Chilling Effects Far Beyond Gaza<https://thewalrus.ca/gaza-press-freedom/>"
by Asmaa Malik and Sonya Fatah, The Walrus

  *   "If Poilievre Won’t Play by the Rules, Journalists Shouldn’t Take the Bait<https://thewalrus.ca/poilievre-media/>"
by Asmaa Malik. The Walrus


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