[acc-cca-l] Call for Papers - (Un)Disturbed: A Journal of Feminist Voices, Special Issue on Feminist Futurities

[Anna Mcwebb]

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Hello all,



The editorial team at (Un)Disturbed: A Journal of Feminist Voices (published through the University of Waterloo library) is excited to announce our call for a special issue that seeks to creatively explore and imagine feminist futurities.


In her 2016 work Freedom is a Constant Struggle, feminist political activist and author Angela Davis wrote, “[o]ur histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those other stories are actually our own stories” (pp. 135). And, indeed, in considering the past and present as told through shared feminist voices and stories, we may be able to imagine feminist futurities together. From this context, we imagine feminist futurities as the speculative and theoretical frameworks that imagine and work towards our preferred future worlds where feminist ideals—such as abolition, freedom from patriarchal and white supremacist structures, disability justice, and gender equity—are realized. Intersecting with ideas of queer futurity, racial justice, environmental sustainability, decolonial thought, and disabled futures, feminist futurities do more than merely focusing on the present struggles. Feminist futurities challenge existing power structures by envisioning radical, inclusive futures that empower marginalized voices, especially women, non-binary people, and those affected by intersecting oppressions, which includes reflecting on, and interrogating, the entanglements of the past, the present, and the future.


Feminist futurities encourage not just imagining what feminist futures could look like, but also strategizing and mobilizing actions today that work towards those visions. Imagining feminist futurities necessitates the conception of a world where the past and the present cannot be disentangled from striving for the possibility of futures that do not perpetuate the “structural and legally sanctioned misogyny, transphobia, and white supremacy (among other forms of violence) of the present” (Silverbloom 2024). In learning from each other through our shared feminist stories, we can engage in conversations where we retell our stories to revise them and relaunch them for unique (and potentially hopeful) feminist futurities. In this issue we hope to generate discussions that opens up a dialogue about how we, as feminists, are thinking about the entanglements of the past, the present, and the future.


We welcome contributions that examine, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  *   Digital feminist futurities
  *   Ecofeminism and environmental feminist futurities
  *   Indigenous futurities
  *   Afrofuturism
  *   Queer futurities
  *   Crip feminism and disabled futures
  *   Bodies and feminist futurities
  *   Specific topics related to feminist stories and/or feminist futurities on campus (for example, navigating feminist futurities in tandem with misogyny and rape culture on campus)


Submission Information

(Un)Disturbed encourages engagement with any of the following forms:

  *   Reports on campus and/or community ongoings (800-1500 words)
  *   Original research (3000-6000 words)
  *   Essays (2500-4,000 words)
  *   Activist/advocate notes (6,000 words)
  *   Commentary and Criticism (2000-2500)
  *   Book reviews (2,000 words)
  *   Interviews and roundtables (4,000 words)
  *   Community voices (4,000 words)
  *   Poetry (variable)
  *   Reflections (variable)
  *   Research creation (variable)
  *   Other arts-based analyses, outputs, and commentary (variable)


For more information, please review the About the Journal<https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/un-disturbed/about> page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines<https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/un-disturbed/about/submissions#authorGuidelines>. Authors need to register<https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/un-disturbed/user/register> with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, simply log in<https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/index/login> and begin the process.

To submit a proposal for consideration in this special issue, please send a 250-word abstract to amcwebb at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:amcwebb at uwaterloo.ca> by December 1st, 2024. Any questions can also be directed to this email address.

Contributors will be notified of the status of their abstracts by January 15, 2025. Full papers or projects will be due March 30, 2025. Completed manuscripts should be submitted via the (Un)Disturbed submission portal and adhere to the journal’s formatting guidelines.



We look forward to receiving your submissions,

Anna McWebb


Anna McWebb, MA (she/her)
PhD Student, English
Phone: (519) 502-9610
E-mail: anna.mcwebb at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:anna.mcwebb at uwaterloo.ca>
Department of English Language and Literature<https://uwaterloo.ca/english/>
University of Waterloo

Managing Editor, (un)Disturbed: A Journal of Feminist Voices<https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/un-disturbed/index>

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. While acknowledging territory allows us to recognize the enduring presence and actions of Indigenous communities, peoples, and lands, more work towards reconciliation, in our research, teaching, and everyday life, must follow: Beyond Acknowledgement<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/apihtawikosisan.com/2016/09/beyond-territorial-acknowledgments/__;!!KGKeukY!zkLRlW78FSCzx4vi8JWQYj5kSEevUb6AlWRXMfsftGBeaJgWXV_EVr_MZn6ivXH-cZvMW5-oaRrwd_o6SLcRzQ$>.
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