Mission Statement

Can the rupture be repaired? 

Ruptures + Repairs is a space of mutuality for feminist thinkers who work within and outside of the often-exclusionary place called “the academy.” Our community is a place for all feminists, regardless of their age, race, gender, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, or nationality, to join the ongoing effort to confront and dismantle the global grammar of white supremacy. We provide radical rhetoric that pushes the boundaries of feminism. This space is for lively conversation and healthy debate. We will learn in public and be transformed.

We borrow the language of “grammar” from Black feminist literary scholar Hortense Spillers, who spoke to the “American grammar,” the rupture, or interruption, that happened through the trans-Atlantic slave trade. We draw upon the work of Black feminists, Indigenous feminists, trans feminists, and feminists of color to reject this violent grammar. This violent grammar is a global concern, although it manifests itself differently in different places. On this blog, we attend to the rupture caused by the modern liberal entanglements of empires in the fifteenth century. We consider the tragedies that the rupture produced. We also tend to the beautiful intimacies that emerge from and despite the rupture. Together, we will create a different global grammar.

Our community is collaborative and relational! We accept new submissions quarterly. Please visit our Call for Submissions Page for an invitation to share your grammar of freedom, justice, and radicalism with us. We welcome essays, poems, short films, and visual art pieces that respond to each quarter’s call. Our Guidelines page includes more information about the types of submissions we accept. We appreciate receiving work from feminists in all stages of their intellectual journeys. We are especially eager to feature emerging feminist thought.

Thank you for plugging into this community. Join us in our work to create a new grammar. To freedom, radical love, and alternative futures!