Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Saida Grundy, Kate Manne, and Imran Siddiquee discuss Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America.
Feminist Public Intellectuals Project
Feminists Theorize COVID-19: A Symposium
Essays by Sari Altschuler and Priscilla Wald, Mel Y. Chen, Cynthia Enloe, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Cindy Patton, and Miraim Ticktin.
Kate Manne’s Entitled
Arwa Madhawi, Peggy McIntosh, Laurie Penny, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discuss Kate Manne’s new book Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, with a response by Manne.
#BlackLivesMatter: Resources for the Uprising
As protests against racist police violence and other forms of racial discrimination persist, Signs is pleased to offer free access to the below articles until August 3.
Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex
Tristan Bridges, Nora Caplan-Bricker, Rachel Giese, and Lisa Wade discuss Peggy Orenstein’s book Boys and Sex, with a response from Orenstein.
Siobhan Brooks, “Innocent White Victims and Fallen Black Girls: Race, Sex Work, and the Limits of Anti-Sex Trafficking Laws”
Featuring Siobhan Brooks’s essay “Innocent White Victims and Fallen Black Girls: Race, Sex Work, and the Limits of Anti-Sex Trafficking Laws” and a digital archive on sex work and sex trafficking.
Feminist Frictions: Sex Work

Feminist Frictions is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project. This installment of Feminist Frictions examines the concept of sex work, featuring an essay by Siobhan Brooks and a digital archive on the topic. Digital Archive: This digital archive extends the themes of Brooks’s essay to examine debates around sex work and trafficking. It collects links to essays, videos, […]
Mona Eltahawy’s The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Liz Bucar, Maria Bustillos, Jaclyn Friedman, and Kaitlynn Mendes discuss Mona Eltahawy’s book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls.
Activism and the Academy: A Conversation with Eesha Pandit, Paula Moya, Carla Kaplan, and Suzanna Walters
Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one anothers’ work. The conversation is facilitated by Signs editorial board chair Carla Kaplan and Signs editor in chief Suzanna Walters. Recorded live at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
Ask a Feminist: Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters



Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one anothers’ work. The conversation is facilitated by Signs editorial board chair Carla Kaplan and Signs editor in chief Suzanna Walters. Recorded live at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference.







