Signs Journal @SignsJournal

The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. signsjournal.org Chicago, IL USA Joined August 2011

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Signs Journal @SignsJournal

9 months ago

Happy New Year to all! Signs is moving platforms this year — Keep up with us at bsky.app/profile/signsj… We hope to see you there!

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9 months ago

Next year, Signs is moving to BlueSky! Don't miss your chance to keep up with us at bsky.app/profile/signsj… — We hope to see you there!

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Signs Journal @SignsJournal

9 months ago

Signs is moving to BlueSky next year! Keep up with us at bsky.app/profile/signsj…!

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9 months ago

Did you hear that Signs is switching platforms next year? Don't miss your chance to keep up with us at bsky.app/profile/signsj…!

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Signs Journal @SignsJournal

9 months ago

Signs is moving to BlueSky! To stay updated next year, follow us at bsky.app/profile/signsj…!

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Signs Journal @SignsJournal

10 months ago

Important announcement: Signs is moving platforms next year! To stay updated, follow us at bsky.app/profile/signsj…

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“This was a difficult book to write; it resisted easy resolutions and took me through bloody depths alongside the Black women who clawed themselves back from the brink.” —Kali N. Gross on her discomfort in writing Vengeance Feminism buff.ly/3DlalTm

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10 months ago

“Gross challenges any idea that feminism isn’t or shouldn’t be violent, and it calls on us to understand that for some women, justice will be had by any and every means necessary.” —Michelle B. Taylor on Kali N. Gross’ Vengeance Feminism buff.ly/3DlalTm

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10 months ago

“[Gross's] storytelling makes us uncomfortable, and it should. She complicates the ways scholars have simplistically understood capricious acts of violence.” —@kcarterjackson on Kali N. Gross’s Vengeance Feminism buff.ly/3DlalTm

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10 months ago

"American culture insists that Black women in situations made desperate by a nation built on their exploitation should simply accept their lot.” —@ProfKori on Kali N. Gross’ Vengeance Feminism buff.ly/3DlalTm

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10 months ago

"Both personal vengeance and collective resistance remain joined: a bicephalic entanglement of emotions within a predatory empire." —Joy James buff.ly/3DlalTm

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Dr. Régine #NoNewUSOccupation Jean-Charles @reineayiti

10 months ago

This issue of @SignsJournal short takes features some of my favorite #Blackfeminist scholars including @kcarterjackson @ProfKori and Kali Gross whose new book if Vengeance Feminism, can't wait to read it!

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10 months ago

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10 months ago

How should instances of Black women taking the law into their own hands be understood when Black women have been denied the protection of the state and have never experienced any semblance of "justice" within the US legal system? Read for free! buff.ly/3DlalTm

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10 months ago

The latest Short Takes forum, on Kali Gross's Vengeance Feminism, explores the role that retribution, anger, and violence have played in the lives of Black women. Read @kcarterjackson, Joy James, @ProfKori, & Michelle Taylor, available free! buff.ly/4guyMfs

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10 months ago

"Criminalizing pregnancy complications has become a real threat. These policies reflect a deep-seated urge to control reproduction and women’s bodies that is often tied to a larger right-wing worldview." —Zoe Sullivan buff.ly/3OqfcFd

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10 months ago

"As I read about the Belén in Argentina..., I thought of the South Carolina Belén and how many other Beléns there are and will be in the post-Dobbs United States." —Julia McReynolds-Pérez buff.ly/3OqfcFd

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10 months ago

"Ana Elena Correa transmits us hope—in feminism, in collective action, and in sorority and solidarity. It is a message we desperately need to hear and a strategy we need to embrace in the US." —Cora Fernández Anderson buff.ly/3OqfcFd

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10 months ago

What Happened to Belén "paints a harrowing portrait of what Belén had to endure...—and much of it was all too similar to what women, especially women of color, have faced in the US," writes Kylie Cheung in our latest Short Takes forum. Available free! buff.ly/3OqfcFd

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10 months ago

What can the rest of the world learn from Argentine feminists' successes? "Hope, networks, learning from the past, staying vigilant in the present, & working toward the future—that is our task, yesterday, today, & tomorrow as well," @anaecorrea writes. buff.ly/3AXhGYI

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10 months ago

Belén, a woman convicted of homicide after having a miscarriage, spent 2 years in prison. Her "ultimate victory," Zoe Sullivan writes, "would not have been possible without the organizational stability and solidarity of Argentina’s feminist movement." buff.ly/3AXhGYI