Rage (Spring 2022)

FINAL DATE TO SUBMIT: Monday, June 20, 2022
(Please email us to request a later date if needed.)

We are raging. For most feminists, rage is a familiar reaction to the structural problems of this world. However, feminists’ rage has historically been misunderstood, criminalized, and pathologized. In her bestselling book (2018), Black feminist intellectual historian Brittney Cooper pointed to the social and political possibilities of rage. She argued that the ability to name and harness our rage might be a superpower. Although each feminists’ specific raging is a response to a distinct social or political problem, our rage emanates from a rupture caused by the ongoing problems of colonialism and the long afterlives of chattel slavery. 

We invite scholarly papers, personal essays, poetry, music, or visual art projects that identify the particular problem(s) that compel feminist rage. We also invite you to consider how rage might become a superpower for feminists as we seek to repair. Effective submissions will address the interlocking oppressions that are endemic in our world. We invite submissions that consider the history of transnational feminist rage and submissions that consider how rage functions in our contemporary context. 

Submissions might respond to prompts such as how do we express and respond to rage? How can rage serve as an expression of care and love? What is the aftermath of feminist rage? How do feminists effectively rage together to produce new worlds? How can we react to the things that enrage us in anti-carceral ways? 

We value creativity. Your submissions can either depart entirely from the normative methods used by people who work in your medium. Alternatively, if you do conform to the norms of your medium, consider how you might creatively reject one or more norms.