Editorial Introduction Batya Weinbaum Welcome to 25.2! We are pleased to offer you three critical essays, a poem, and many solid reviews. Although Merry Byrd is staying on to perform other functions, this will be the last review section that she edits for us. At her own request, she is stepping down and passing the torch to Hannah Victoria Palmer (H.Palmer2@lboro.ac.uk) from the UK. We thank Merry for her many years of excellence performance as our review editor and for contr

Creative Editor  FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks a volunteer editorial collective member starting for 26.1 no later than January 1. Duties include: Attending collective meetings on a regular basis (now Friday 10:30 AM EST) Receiving creative submissions to screen and coordinate peer-review  Seeking creative submissions and reviewers through professional channels and personal netw

Old Magic, New Stories: Secret Histories of Witches Video: WEBINAR: Secret History of the Witches with Max Dashu — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg64hNciFFc The category “witch” has long been a cultural cipher, being used to demonize, romanticize, and silence women whose knowledge and ritual agency fell outside authorised institutions. As such, for us to recover the histories of these women who have been pushed out, we require both archival examination and a comparative sen