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{"title":"Modern Primitive (2020–Ongoing): Ink and Pencil Crayon on Paper","authors":"Anwar Faizd Osman","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID19 pandemic represents a period in time in which people all over the globe witnessed the hypervisibility of white supremacist violence, antiBlack racism, and Black activism on a global scale. Inspired by this, Modern Primitive (2020) is a new series of drawings I began in March 2020 that features colorful portraits of individuals who are both known and unknown to us. Using familiar cultural tropes like “Karens/Kevins,” “AntiMaskers,” and “AntiVaxxers” as character studies, which are also invoked in/by each individual work’s title, Modern Primitive offers intimate glimpses of what living together as well as apart looks like and means to/for different people in a/our shared world(s) yet with diverse and distinct realities. Resisting traditional art histories and notions of “primitivism” that are based on Eurocentric, modernist constructions of other cultures as “exotic” and “Other,” these images portray popular subjects in rough figural poses and gestures akin to how “nonwhite” cultures have been historically misrepresented as less sophisticated and “civilized” than white artists and “modern” cultures. Here, the white gaze and its logics that have for so long defined ethnographic portraiture and visual culture are subverted and replaced with/by a critical, contemporary, queer Black lens and gaze.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"151 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41388303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When We’re Coming From: What Would an HIV Doula Do? on Pandemic Time(s)","authors":"Jennifer Brier, Salonee Bhaman, Alex Fialho, Pato Hebert, Theodore Kerr, A. Juhasz, Olivia R. Polk","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:“When We’re Coming From” is a conversation across time and place among a group of writers and artists who are members of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective. Seven of us have come together to have an asynchronous conversation about how our decades-long work to respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic shapes our experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we share six individual assessments of pandemic time to suggest ways that pandemics(s) shape our sense of time(s). What follows are our meditations on how and when we see ourselves, and the transitions of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19: “AIDS out of time,” bent time, “time-is-money,” palimpsests, syndemic time, and the long haul.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"122 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45597585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Specter(s) of Care: A Symposium on Midwifery, Relationality, and Reproductive Justice To-Come","authors":"Rodante van der Waal","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.a902528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a902528","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Nearly 2.5 thousand years ago, Plato wrote a symposium about love. This symposium was attended by Socrates, the founder of “maieutic” philosophy, a name owing to the comparison of his profession to that of his mother, a maia , meaning midwife in ancient Greek. By now, the kind of relational continuity of care that midwifery could have represented in ancient times, is something that we have long lost, if we ever had it. In most medical institutions, relational care is but a specter haunting us: something that we long for but is refused to us on account of it being a practical and material impossibility. The symposium below, written 2.5 thousand years later, is an attempt to reconceive of care for fertility, abortion, pregnancy, and parenthood. Through a combination of hauntology, critical fabulation, and decolonial empirical methodology (Rhee 2021; Gordon 2007; Hartman 2019), a specter of care is staged in the figure of midwife Phaenarete, Socrates’ mother, who is engaged in dialogue with current day midwives and mothers. Following Derrida (2006), there is only one reason to “talk” to a specter, namely if it is for a justice to-come . This notion of the “to-come” is taken seriously as the horizon of reproductive justice, invoking a direct poetics of opacity, receptivity, and creolization (Glissant 2010; 2020a; 2020b) in order to imagine relational care that can ensure reproductive justice for all .","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to “Privatizing the State: Reproductive Rights, Affirmative Action, and the Problem of Democracy”","authors":"Zillah Eisenstein","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.a902529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a902529","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction to “Privatizing the State: Reproductive Rights, Affirmative Action, and the Problem of Democracy” Zillah Eisenstein (bio) From 1989 to 2022 . . . my thoughts and feelings are almost inchoate as I reread this piece. I am remembering the historical moment in which I wrote this—a systematic right-wing attack on liberal democracy against abortion and affirmative action, which was and is racist and misogynist. So much is the same, and yet different in its extremism. The attack is more fascist-democratic than neoliberal/neoconservative. And, yes, none of these terms make sense because of the structural biases of democracy itself. I remember writing this in a bit of despair given the elation about the revolutions in 1989 supposedly bringing new democracies across the Soviet empire. Meanwhile democracy was being challenged here, again, especially for people of color and all women. My article is a reminder that the fight to dis-mantle Roe v. Wade and civil rights law is part of the DNA of this country. Today, we live in the aftermath of the COVID crisis that has uncovered environmental disaster, racial upheaval, and racialized sexual violence. And, yet, there is fifty years of antiracist feminist struggle that is part of the history of Roe v. Wade. So, in the recent midterm elections there was not a Red surge of fascism, but rather an antiracist and feminist stance for a truer democracy. There is an overriding public commitment to pro-abortion, pro-citizen rights for every woman needing an abortion. I wrote, also decades ago, in The Color of Gender, that if we were really wanting to create a fully democratic society that we should use “a black woman’s pregnant body” as our guide: meet her needs (which are specific and particular) and as long as her needs are met, everyone will be included—from the specific to the universal. So, it is sad that for half of a century this struggle continues. And yet, the fight for reproductive rights is robust. You can make abortion illegal, but that does not stop abortion, or the people who fight for it. [End Page 124] Thank you for reposting this piece to remind us all to keep resisting the assaults on people of color’s and women’s—trans, cis, non-binary, gender variant, all of us—bodies and their freedoms. The struggle for freedom continues. [End Page 125] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 126] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 127] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 128] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 129] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 130] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 131] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 132] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 133] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 134] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 135] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 136] Click for larger view View ","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Domestic Touchpoints Between British and Chinese Women’s Art","authors":"Virginia Yiqing Yang, Adrienne Evans","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.a902526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a902526","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Domesticity in women’s art has been explored in a number of recently emerging writings and artistic projects. In this article, we focus on three British and Chinese women artists’ work: Jemima Brown’s Our Lady of Perpetual Distraction , Tao Aimin’s Women’s River , and Gao Rong’s Guangzhou Station—Things in the Bag , with analysis that explores overlaps between them as part of a transcultural condition. These overlaps are defined as “touchpoints”, as a way to capture transient, fluid or intra-secting moments where ideas within artworks meet. We pay attention to gender division/inequality that is informed by a new materialist and phenomenological feminist methodology. This article facilitates an in-depth analysis of women’s art from a transcultural understanding and challenges the current sociocultural binaries inherent in gender relations.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Audre Lorde, Labor Theorist: Rethinking Integrity within Late Capitalism","authors":"Kristina Popiel","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.a902524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a902524","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Audre Lorde’s work is most often read for her insights in the fields of gender, sexuality, and critical race theory, and while her work certainly merits close attention for its groundbreaking contributions to these fields, I will suggest here that her work can also be productively read as a significant contribution to literary labor theory. Reading Lorde as a labor theorist enables a holistic understanding of the complete nexus of race, gender, sexuality, and class as the materialist manifestation of the underlying capitalistic abstraction of the self of the worker. I will argue that for Lorde, ultimately, woman is one who works, and this underlies her overarching conceptualization of integrity, a radical notion of wholeness that is based in the fullness of women’s labor (often social justice labor). This materialist idea functions as a radical alternative to capitalist alienation, and specifically combats the privilege of white feminism, and other bourgeois power inequalities. Lorde’s conceptualization of the working woman of color is truly world-making. It is sensuous and holistic (in a way that the abstraction of capitalism is demonstratively not), and it is a specifically non-white, lesbian labor that effects this. Lorde’s “integrity” is a way of reuniting the subject and object (à la Marx’s “species being”) within the figure of the woman who works. What that looks like, in our political reality, is active social justice work, done—and lived—with integrity.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editors’ Note","authors":"Kimberly M. Jew, Wanda S. Pillow, Darius Bost","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.a902523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a902523","url":null,"abstract":"Editors’ Note Kimberly M. Jew, Wanda S. Pillow, and Darius Bost A little over twenty years ago, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presented “Panopticon: An Art Spectacular.” This newsworthy exhibit featured an array of art pieces designed to attract and surprise the patrons’ all-seeing eyes, with paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts chairs arranged everywhere—from floor-to-ceiling, in non-traditional visual patterns. The essence of a Frontiers general volume embraces the dynamism and immediacy of the artistic panopticon, inviting readers to experience a diversity of feminist and gendered-centered methods, theories, and forms of expression. The essays in this volume demonstrate the discursive nature of women’s and gender studies, revealing the multiple and interactive layers of inquiry by which feminist scholarship emerges. Just as an ink rendering might speak to a designer chair, which also speaks to an abstract sculpture, these diverse essays engage in the critical conversations that define today’s past and emerging models of feminist scholarship. Of note, these essays further contribute to a darker Foucauldian interpretation of the panopticon as a tool of pervasive institutional power and surveillance. Though diverse in scope, these texts are firmly united in their commitment to exposing societal inequities and forms of intersectional oppression. They ask us to not only see everything but to see critically. This general volume is divided among three sections. The first section explores Audre Lorde’s groundbreaking work on Black, lesbian, and women’s studies through the lens of labor. The practice of labor manifests in multiple forms, including paid or unpaid, domestic or worldly, emotionally felt or object-driven, local or world changing. The two essays on Lorde’s work explore how contrasting forms of labor thread through women’s lives and experiences. In “Audre Lorde, Labor Theorist: Rethinking Integrity within Late Capitalism,” Kristina Popiel approaches Audre Lorde’s scholarship and writings through the framework of labor theory. She argues that Lorde viewed the social construction of “woman” as intimately connected to work, which [End Page xi] potential leads to “a radical notion of wholeness that is based in the fullness of women’s labor (often social justice labor).” In “Metabolize Hate or Die of It: Lorde, Labor, and Critical Affect Theory,” Molly Benitez explores affect theory in light of the physical experiences and legacies of women and queer identities of color. This essay seeks to put Lorde’s theory of metabolization “in conversation with Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to analyze ‘the affects of labor’—the stress, trauma, and emotions.” Benitez offers a critique of capitalism’s oppressive methods, demonstrating how marginalized subjects are forced to meet capitalism’s demands. The second section of this volume presents two essays that focus on global feminist critiques, suggesting an expansive, ","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Metabolize Hate or Die of It”: Lorde, Labor, and Affect Theory","authors":"Molly Benitez","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.a902525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a902525","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: While the accepted cannon of affect theory does not adequately address issues of colonization, enslavement, and race, an affect theory traced through a genealogy of women and queer of color scholars and theorists centers the body and lived experience in its analysis of affects. Utilizing this critical affect theory, this paper begins with a rereading of Audre Lorde’s “Eye to Eye” and her experiences working at Keystone Electronics narrated in Zami . Lorde’s theory of metabolization is put in conversation with Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to analyze “the affects of labor”—the stress, trauma, and emotions—experienced through the work one does and how these affects of labor produce and reproduce workers emotionally, socially, and physically. This ethnographic and autoethnographic work centers the experiences of queer and trans LGBTQ+ trades workers and specifically in this paper the case of Jae, a mixed-Black, trans, trades worker to interrogate the ways work works on laborers, how it forms and transforms them, and the complex ways that workers negotiate and resist the affects of labor. This paper looks specifically at the oppressive affects of labor and offers the affects of labor as an analytic to think through how work within a capitalist system continuously produces and reproduces workers, their families, and communities to benefit and uphold capitalist demands.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gadji Feminism(s) in Serbia: Racial Privilege and “Intersectional” Solidarity in an Eastern European Semiperiphery","authors":"Ivana Pražić, Ana Vilenica","doi":"10.1353/fro.2023.a902527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a902527","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In this paper, we follow Jelena Savić, the only Romani critical race theoretician, poet, and decolonial activist in Serbia in her call for unpacking the colonial legacy and whiteness behind the feminist politics. Accordingly, we trace the historical trajectory through which whiteness has been introduced into and became paradigmatic of specific post-Yugoslav Serbian feminist activism and theories. In line with Savić’s critique of the feminist politics in Serbia, we identify two types of gadji (non-Roma European) feminism(s): gadji saviorism and gadji performative solidarity . In the first section we outline the notion of gadji saviorism as an optics perceiving Roma women as victims of the purportedly backward Romani way of life and the supposed inherent poverty from which Roma women need to be “saved” or “uplifted” by the enlightened Eurocentric culture(s). We point both to similarities and differences between colonial-state antiziganist subjugation of Roma women and children in the Austro-Hungarian empire/kingdom and the contemporary Serbian feminist “savior politics” aligned with transnational European and national Serbian policies. In the second section, we look at the (post)socialist genealogies behind the concept which Savić identified as white feminist “performative solidarity” and its race-blind approach to both feminism and solidarity based on its (self)conflation with the ideology of “sisterhood and unity”. Our research shows how these ideas nested in the Serbian feminist scene following the fall of socialism and the end of Cold War.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward Strategic Auto-Orientalism in Iranian American Self-Narrative: A Critique of Jasmin Darznik’s The Good Daughter","authors":"Hossein Nazari, Fateme Nazari","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper critiques Jasmin Darznik’s bestselling memoir, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life (2011), in order to investigate the author’s literary response to mainstream, (neo-)Orientalist literary representations of Iranian women in the United States. In doing so, this study sets out to examine whether the narrative reinforces dominant Western stereotypes of Iranian/Muslim women as passive, oppressed victims of social and religious patriarchy or offers a strategic discursive intervention in the American literary market to construct a space for reimagining Iranian womanhood. To this end, the author’s adoption of strategic auto-Orientalism, as formulated by Martina Koegeler, as her representational modus operandi is analyzed to reveal the manner in which the narrative might promise new subjectivities and modes of writing for hyphenated female authors through exploiting the potentialities offered by the strategic appropriation of auto-Orientalism.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"63 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47322669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}