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Feminist Public Intellectuals Project

In keeping with the consistent mission of Signs to matter in the world, the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project seeks to engage feminist theorizing with pressing political and social issues via three open-access, online-first initiatives: Ask a Feminist, Short Takes, and Feminist Frictions. Given the fragmentation of feminist activism and the persistent negative freighting of the moniker “feminist,” the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project seeks to genuinely reimagine the role a journal can play. This multipronged tack brings into conversation feminist public intellectuals with academic experts, activists with scholars in an effort to spark conversation, debate, and critical feminist discourse.

Ask a Feminist Conversations with feminist experts

Ask a Feminist features interviews with leading feminist thinkers on issues raised by some aspect of current political life or social justice issue. This allows Signs to create an ongoing conversation between and among feminist scholars, media activists, and community leaders, enhancing the journal’s role as a transitive space, percolating in and between the space of intellectual production and activist engagement.

  • Ask a Feminist: Patricia Williams Discusses Rage and Humor as an Act of Disobedience with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra

    Ask a Feminist: Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters

    Ask a Feminist: Byllye Avery Discusses the Past and Future of Reproductive Justice with Susan Reverby

  • Ask a Feminist: Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and US Asylum Law with Aziza Ahmed

    Ask a Feminist: Soraya Chemaly Discusses Feminist Rage with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra

    Cynthia Enloe Discusses Gender and the Rise of the Global Right with Agnieszka Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters

  • Catharine A. MacKinnon and Durba Mitra Discuss Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo

    Dolores Huerta and Rachel Rosenbloom Discuss Gender and Immigrant Rights

    Michael Kimmel and Lisa Wade Discuss Toxic Masculinity

  • Angela P. Harris discusses Gender and Gun Violence with Amy Farrell

    Susan J. Carroll discusses Gender and Electoral Politics with Suzanna Danuta Walters

    Cathy Cohen Discusses Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and Contemporary Activism with Sarah J. Jackson

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Short Takes Commentaries on books shaping public feminist discourse

Short Takes examine books that have had wide-ranging impact and reach (for better or worse!) through short commentaries from leading feminist public intellectuals and activists. Rather than traditional book reviews, commentators are asked to ponder broader questions of reach and resonance: Why this? Why now? And what does this say about the state of the feminist zeitgeist?

  • Short Takes: Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre

    Short Takes: Kate Manne’s Entitled

    Short Takes: Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex

  • Short Takes: Mona Eltahawy’s The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

    Short Takes: Linda Hirshman’s Reckoning

    Short Takes: Rachel Louise Snyder’s No Visible Bruises

  • Short Takes: Stephanie Land’s Maid

    Short Takes: Charlene A. Carruthers’s Unapologetic

    Short Takes: Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her

  • Bernice Yeung’s In a Day’s Work

    Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage

    Zoe Quinn’s Crash Override

  • Hillary Clinton’s What Happened

    Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

    Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances

  • Jessica Bennett’s Feminist Fight Club

    Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom

    Andi Zeisler’s We Were Feminists Once

  • Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies

    Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s Notorious RBG

    Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter

  • Pro by Katha Pollitt

    Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay


Feminist Frictions Pointed takes on feminist controversies

Feminist Frictions features essays by prominent feminist scholars engaging a key concept or debate. Most assuredly not designed as encyclopedia entries, these pieces instead are potentially controversial “white papers” that offer a nuanced and edgy take on a key issue circulating in the feminist definitional landscape.  Each essay is accompanied by an expansive multimedia digital archive that includes podcasts, videos, and cartoons, as well as more traditional books and articles, that speak to the concept in question.

  • Feminist Frictions: Sex Work

    Suzanna Danuta Walters on Identity Politics

    Janell Hobson on Celebrity Feminism

  • Jack Halberstam on Trigger Warnings

    Janet Halley on Affirmative Consent

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