MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
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MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
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New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
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Affect in Fandom is out soon, which I co-edited with great colleagues! It's an open-access book with splendid scholarship on fan fic, cosplay and games. How do feelings, texts and memories shape fandom? What do fans create, and why? Find out in March! #mediastudies www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Affect in Fandom
This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan ...
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It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors.

Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄

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The Nightmare Before Christmas
This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and hi…
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A reminder that our CFP for women's writing is still live!
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New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
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New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
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Did you know that MAI also accepts creative work? Creative responses can take any form, are peer reviewed using our fair, transparent approach and are an important aspect of creative scholarship. Honor Wilson's confessional in MAI 14 is a great example maifeminism.com/the-men-who-... #academicsky
The Men Who Dressed Me: Buscemi, Cash & Dad
Wilson offers a confessional account on how popular culture's representations of masculinity may contribute to the shaping of trans identity.
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Rose Mulraney talks with Alison Ramsey about their shared interests in women’s wellbeing and the use of animation and found footage in filmmaking to help illuminate hidden stories. maifeminism.com/womens-healt... #Academicsky #health
Women's Health on Film: A Conversation with Alison Ramsey
Ramsey reflects on the benefits of increased media visibility of menopause in the context of the struggle for justice in women's health.
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It's the time of year to think back as well as forward. Teresa Rizzo explores remembering through the practice of rephotography in our latest issue: maifeminism.com/the-beloved-... #academicsky #feminism #photography
The Beloved Bodies of Friendship Photography
Takings pics of her old friends, Rizzo tests Barthes' arguments around affective photography to come to unexpected conclusions.
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What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.
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"Videogames are typically associated with challenge and competition, but games can also incorporate representations and mechanics of care." Silvia Ruzanka explores alternate modes of understanding games in our new issue: maifeminism.com/experimental... #feminism #games #academicsky
Experimental Game Design & Practices of Care
Ruzanka demonstrates how class application of feminist practice of care can encourage students to push boundaries in their game design.
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"cinema can be more than a site of ponderous ‘dialogue and exchange’. It can also be a battleground." Ian Wang in Art Review on film's turn away from the real world. artreview.com/the-year-in-...
Against the ‘Aesthetic Turn’ in Cinema
The year in film: 2024 was the year the film industry could no longer ignore the real world
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agreed! it goes where many writers/directors may fear to tread....
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"The game design and game studies classroom continually struggle with the same conflicts, culture wars, and exclusionary practices that dominate the game industry itself." Anne Sullivan and Anastasia Salter look for solutions to the status quo maifeminism.com/mending-the-... #academicsky #feminism
Mending the 'Magic' Circle: Crafting Feminist Pedagogy in Game Design
When classrooms have become ideological battlegrounds, the authors devise an inclusive games design pedagogy using crafting as their method.
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Let's start at the beginning: the guest editors of our latest issue explain the importance of feminist voices in teaching games design: "‘who are we teaching, and what can we learn from them?’ "
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Feminist Pedagogies for Games: An Introduction - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
MAI editors illuminate the need for more feminist voices to rejuvenate the pedagogy in the popular yet male-dominated games design.
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Over the next few days we'll be dipping into and sharing some of the wonderful new content from current issue. Starting with Sandra Alexandersson who writes about her experience of learning, and teaching, games design. maifeminism.com/taught-to-aw... #Academicsky #feminism #games
Taught to Awaken: The Experience of Games Student-Turned-Teacher
Alexandersson documents her personal journey as a student-turned-teacher in games education through the discovery of feminist pedagogy.
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Joy of joys, our new issue! Feminist Pedagogies in Games Commissioned by our guest editors, Rebecca Rouse, Josefin Westborg and Amy Corron Youmans, explores game design and teaching games from a feminist perspective //maifeminism.com/issues/focus-issue-fourteen-feminist-pedagogies-in-games/
Focus Issue Fourteen: Feminist Pedagogies in Games
Our authors examine the male-dominated HE field of teaching games, pleading for more inclusive pedagogies to depart from patriarchal methods.
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Did someone say Tuesday? Then it must be time for another peek into the MAI archives...
Revisiting an interview with filmmaker Karyn Kusama from our third Spring 2019 issue #feminism #horror #film #directing #academicsky #Filmsky
In Conversation with Karyn Kusama - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
In 2018, Noel Nuccioni approached Karyn Kusama, American film & TV director to talk about horror films and today's society, as well as about women and the director's creative strategies.
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It's another throwback Tuesday (wow, that week went fast ;-D Daniel Fountain writes about knitting, queering and surviving in Survival of the Knittest: Craft and Queer-Feminist Worldmaking part of MAI 8: Feminist Craft issue. #feminism #craft #queer-feminist
Survival of the Knittest: Craft and Queer-Feminist Worldmaking
Using various case studies, this article explores the importance of craft for queer-feminist survival and worldmaking.
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