The Politics of Feeling Out
One feminist practice that is central to both my research and my teaching is the emphasis on what I call feeling out.I understand feeling out not only to mean trying out new approaches, methodologies,...
View Article“Happy/Unhappy” or: Thinking Through Happiness
by Maggie McCarthy and Maria Stehle In The Promise of Happiness (2010), Sara Ahmed understands happiness as the promise of “happy objects,” as well as a form of affect that “sticks,” i.e. “sustains or...
View ArticleTransparency and Generosity as Feminist Practice
I try to use my own experience/s as a mixed race, working class, woman with chronic illness as a resource for my teaching, scholarly research, writing and activism. At the same time, I try to remain as...
View ArticlePaying It Forward: Editing as Mentorship
Editing and reviewing the work of fellow and future feminists is for me a critical feminist practice. As feminist scholars, teachers, and activists, we shape the futures of our disciplines by nurturing...
View Article“This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some...
View ArticleArchiving Alternative Futures
Just a little over a year ago now, the LGBT rights website vanished from the White House homepage. In retrospect, the webpage’s sudden—if unsurprising—disappearance has turned out to be a harbinger, as...
View ArticleWhen Your Faves are Problematic: Interrupting Harmful Narratives as Feminist...
by Didem Uca Social media has held an important place in my development as an intersectional feminist scholar-activist. Running the Coalition of Women in German Twitter page since October 2014 has...
View ArticleStrategies for Feminist Leadership in the Neoliberal University
With its emphasis on quantification, financialization, and entrepreneurialism, and its attack on the public good, neoliberalism poses a threat to higher education and to feminism by commodifying...
View ArticleEmpathy
by Beverly Weber In the following “pages” I want to think about empathy, including the possibilities and dangers of empathy as a motivation to feminist action.1 At least twice in the last 24 hours...
View ArticlePh.D. in German Studies or the Possibility of Becoming an Unhappy Queer
by Simone Pfleger In the fall and winter of 2017, I spent the majority of my time revising my dissertation, which I then defended successfully in December of that year. Like many of my fellow graduate...
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