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FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
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Old Magic, New Stories: Secret Histories of Witches
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
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Oct 274 min read


New issue of Journal of the Motherhood Initiative has been published
Vol. 16 No. Spring / Fall (2025): Mothers and Mothering throughout the Life Course has been published! Information about this issue can be found here: https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/issue/view/2325
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Oct 201 min read
JourMS: Annual Academic Conference
You can check information about this conference in this website: https://jourms.org/annual-academic-conference/
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Oct 201 min read
Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 1 Review
Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 1 Original Air Date: 10th April 2025 Subscribe to Survive We’re familiar with the never-ending demands and dark patterns of subscription services: they’re hard to cancel, often have hidden fees, and their terms and conditions can change arbitrarily. Overall, this is the premise of Black Mirror ’s opening episode in its seventh season. Written by showrunner Charlie Brooker and stand-up comedian Bisha K. Ali, Common People chronicles the lives
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Oct 133 min read
Outliers and OutlawsThe Eugene Lesbian History Project
The Eugene Lesbian History Project is a community-based, digital humanities project that preserves and shares the unique history of the...
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Sep 291 min read
Meta-Romance and Recasting Desire in Hotel Reverie, by Muskan Soni
Early into the third episode of Black Mirror’s latest (2025), Brandy Friday (played by Issa Rae), a Hollywood actor, tells her manager...
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Sep 113 min read
Review of Black Mirror Season 7
Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 2 Original Air Date: 10th April 2025 Revenge in an Alternate Reality Imagine experiencing a break from...
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Aug 103 min read


Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity, published in March by Demeter Press
More information about this book can be found in the link below: https://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/05/09/keeping-it-in-the-family-york-moth...
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May 141 min read
Editorial Introduction (25.1)
Batya Weinbaum Welcome to 25.1! We are pleased to welcome new members to the collective, one of whom, Lucía Bausela-Buccianti,...
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Apr 162 min read
Anti-Trans Ideology Threatens All Of Our Freedoms | Judith Butler Meets Ash Sarkar
In March of 2024, Macmillan published Who's Afraid of Gender? , the new book by philosopher Judith Butler. Butler is well known as the...
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Feb 262 min read
MoM Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2025 (CFP)
MoM Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2025 FUN, SEX & CRYING OUT LOUD – 25th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE March 14-16, 2025 St. Petersburg,...
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Dec 2, 20243 min read
MoM Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2025
FUN, SEX & CRYING OUT LOUD – 25th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE March 14-16, 2025 St. Petersburg, Florida & Online CFP – Deadline, Dec. 15...
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Nov 30, 20243 min read
Wemoon 2025: Gaìa Rhythms for Women
Wemoon 2025: Gaìa Rhythms for Women is a 240 pp date book filled with astrology, art and poetry put out by Mother Tongue Ink in Oregon on...
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Nov 25, 20241 min read
Editorial Introduction to Issue 24.2
Batya Weinbaum Although the journal is currently edited by a robust collective, I am taking my turn at writing the introduction to this...
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Nov 20, 20242 min read


A Hidden Gem at Comic-Con
The international celebration of all things pop culture known as the San Diego Comic-Con occured this summer from July 25-28th at the San...
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Oct 28, 20244 min read
A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN?: THAT TIME WILL COME by MARTHA TWINE
The book That Time Will Come, set in the year 2350, begins with an Asian woman pleading with Goddess Kali to give her a son this time,...
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Oct 13, 20243 min read
Help Finish the Shaushķa Goddess Statue
More information here: https://gofund.me/c94d2dd2
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
Review of Lisa Vogel’s 2024 We Can Live Like This…a Memoir of a Culture 249 pp. Billie Books, POB 3828, Berkeley CA 94703.
By Batya Weinbaum This book is dedicated to “all the sisters who forged a new life in the woods of Michigan.” Available through...
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Sep 5, 20243 min read
Octavia E. Butler’s “Eerily Accurate” Prediction For 2024
Given the frequent headlines about wildfires, flooding and record heat, Octavia E. Butler’s vision for 2024 in Parable of the Sower seems...
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Aug 27, 20243 min read
A Worthwhile Fantasy, IF Falls Short of Remarkable
When Bea (Cailey Fleming) goes to New York to stay with her grandmother while her father (John Krasinski) has surgery, she discovers that...
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Jul 19, 20242 min read
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