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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. | http://signsjournal.org | Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social linktr.ee/signsjournal
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Mar 12
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New from Signs: Nikita Shephard explores “carceral equality” — how lesbian cops became symbols of LGBTQ progress while reinforcing state violence. A critical analysis of feminist politics, representation, and the contradictions of inclusion (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm
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In our latest issue, Sarah Luna examines how Mexico City’s lenchas & transfeministas transform violence into pleasure through radical pedagogy—ejaculation workshops, intergalactic dildos and lucha libre wrestling in flaxseed lube. Read more here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm
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While Brazil’s military dictatorship crushed dissent, lesbian activists went underground, publishing secret bulletins and building networks of resistance. Augusta da Silveira de Oliveira reveals this vital history of resilience under authoritarianism (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm
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Check out Clara Bradbury-Rance’s “Defensive Spectatorship, or, Watching as a Butch/Lesbian,” which explores masculinity, lesbian studies, and ambivalent spectatorial desire (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm
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New from Signs: “Lesbian Studies, Now” traces the figure of the lesbian in feminist theory, history, and politics — confronting nostalgia, critique, and the possibilities of survival. Check it out here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm
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Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):
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This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…
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In our new issue, Julia Golda Harris dives into the 1970s women’s music scene — where trans and butch musicians claimed lesbian identity through music amid fierce battles over inclusion. Read it here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm
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Signs presents “Lesbian Studies, Now” — exploring lesbian feminism’s vital role in contemporary scholarship, from gender nonconformity to revolutionary fervor. Special issue out now! (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1
This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…
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What does “lesbian” do — as identity, politics, analytic — in the 21st century? Signs’ fall issue, “Lesbian Studies, Now,” stages the debates shaping feminism’s past, present, and future. Read it here (sub. req’d): www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
Cover of the Signs Special Issue "Lesbian Studies Now" featuring Nicole Eisenman's "Lesbian Recruitment Booth."
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The lesbian studies issue of @signsjournal.org is on the internet! It includes my article about Sarah Schulman’s slideshow about a fake lesbian writer & her real short story about a lesbian who wakes up with a penis.
Cover of signs In March 1983, Sarah Schulman finished a draft of a short story about a lesbian who wakes up one day with a penis, descriptively titled “A Short Story About a Penis.” Though now a well-known writer, Schulman enjoyed limited success placing her fiction as a young writer in the early 1980s. In the middle of the feminist sex wars, “A Short Story About a Penis” racked up rejections from every significant lesbian literary magazine before finally appearing in On Our Backs, a newly launched lesbian sex magazine, in March 1986. While still struggling to place her story, Schulman created a performance piece to vent her frustration with the lesbian publishing scene. In her performance, Schulman read “A Short Story About a Penis,” which, she claimed, was the recently discovered work of a long-forgotten lesbian writer from the 1930s. In this article, I reconstruct the history of “A Short Story About a Penis” based on conversations with Schulman and the archival footprint of the performance in her personal papers. In offering an intellectual history of Schulman’s thinking on gender, sexuality, lesbian identity, and history, this article places Schulman within a genealogy of what came to be known as queer and trans, without obscuring the fraught history of lesbian in the 1980s.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 5d
"So much ... violence ... proceeds along lines that track conventional sorts of masculinities, that are about protection, control, and force." - Angela P. Harris

Click here and listen to this Short Takes episode on Gender and Gun Violence!
Gender and Gun Violence: A Conversation with Angela P. Harris and Amy Farrell
Angela P. Harris and Amy Farrell discuss gender, race, and gun violence.
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Happy birthday to the amazing author and feminist, bell hooks! Read this 1995 Signs interview featuring hooks and Tanya McKinnon, to hear more about hooks's life from the author herself.
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bell hooks, Tanya McKinnon, Sisterhood: Beyond Public and Private, Signs, Vol. 21, No. 4, Feminist Theory and Practice (Summer, 1996), pp. 814-829
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Sunday, September 21st, was International Day of Peace. To honor the day, check out the Signs symposium "Feminists Reconceptualize Peace". Here you'll find peaceful perspectives applied to discussions of maternal roles, men at war, violence against women, and more. (sub. req’d):
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 36, No 3
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Monday, September 15th, marked the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. To celebrate, check out this Signs article, which discusses the Mexican-American feminist movement known as the Chicana movement or "El Movimiento"! (sub. req’d):
Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 26, No 2
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"If the post-Roe years have made anything clear, it is that no federal protection, no court ruling, and no institutional framework can be relied upon entirely to safeguard reproductive autonomy for the long haul." — @kellyodonn.bsky.social
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"The activists profiled in the book aren’t focused on what is legal; they are focused on what is accessible.... Access is an account of people who prioritized the needs of abortion seekers over fears of personal risk." —Katrina Kimport
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"Legality is not the same as justice, and ... access is not the same as rights. The formal systems may shift—and with Dobbs, they collapsed—but abortion seekers and their helpers have never waited for permission." —@rhartholder.bsky.social
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New Short Takes! @rhartholder.bsky.social, Katrina Kimport, and @kellyodonn.bsky.social discuss @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social's Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the 60-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom!
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 25d
Check out this interview, “To Interpret the World and to Change It: An Interview with Nancy Fraser” to hear about how Nancy Fraser uses philosophy to address issues facing feminist politics.
To Interpret the World and to Change It: An Interview with Nancy Fraser | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 29, No 4
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Today is International Literacy Day! To celebrate the holiday, check out this Sign’s article on literary icon Toni Morrison, which discusses Morrison’s Nobel Lecture in Literature, in which she elaborates her theory on language!
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Sep 4
"Radical does not mean “extreme” or “outrageous” but rather a process of going to the roots of something”-Breanne Fahs

Check out this Sign's article on the need for radical feminism today!
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Sep 2
"'We as women have to stand up and make sure that this wave of energy doesn’t end, that it goes deeper.' --Dolores Huerta

Click here and listen to this Short Takes episode on Gender and Immigrant Rights!
Gender and Immigrant Rights: A Conversation with Dolores Huerta and Rachel Rosenbloom
Renowned organizer and activist Dolores Huerta discusses #MeToo, DACA, Trump, and the intersections between the labor, immigrant rights, and feminist movements.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Aug 28
Check out “13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto” which discusses the feminist conjuncture, conceptualizes contemporary feminist protest, and lays out an agenda on feminist theory of protest. (sub. req’d):
13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 50, No 1
Abstract Antiracist, anticapitalist feminist protests are at the forefront of contemporary mass protest in the Americas and beyond. As an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international collective...
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Aug 26
Check out this article from Sign’s special issue “Rethinking ‘First Wave’ Feminism” to learn more about the history behind Women’s Equality Day, and the divisions and tension that existed within the suffrage movement (sub. req’d):
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