MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture

No Innocent Bystanders: Nando Messias & Cassils Confront Hate Crimes Comparing two performance artists, Fox reflects on the complex dynamic of resistance vs. vulnerability in the face of hate crimes.

In the current issue of MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, Oriana Fox explores two works of performance art by Nando Messias and Cassils which share activist/aesthetic responses to hate crimes
www.maifeminism.com/no-innocent-... #feminism #performance #academicsky

Death and Rebirth: 3D Printed Women Portraits by Sophie Kahn Li examines how Sophie Kahn's use of transformative materials and glitch aesthetics reshapes contemporary women's self-portraiture.

Keni Li explores the 3D sculptures, AR/VR portraits, and videos of British Australian sculptor and digital artist Sophie Kahn in our new issue MAI 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/death-and-re... #feminism #academicsky #fineart #digital #art

Self-portrait as Collective Art Praxis: The Jina Uprising in Iran Esmaeilzade analyses the self-expressive art of the Jina uprising as a tool for protesting the systemic oppression of Iranian women.

Kheyzaran Esmaeilzade explores the performative images that women created and in which they presented themselves during the Jina (‘Woman, Life, Freedom’) uprising in Iran. www.maifeminism.com/self-portrai... #feminism #academicsky #selfportrait #performativity

A Labour of Love: Krishna Istha on M:otherhood Project Having completed First Trimester, his first film in a planned trilogy, Istha meets Oriana Fox to discuss trans pregnancy and parenthood.

Start your week as you mean to go on, with an article a day from our new issue MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture.
Oriana Fox interviews performance artist Krishna Istha on the M:otherhood Project (2023-present) www.maifeminism.com/a-labour-of-... #feminism #performance

#insertingherselfinarthistory: Alison Lloyd’s Feminist Auto-Citation & Social Media Examining Lloyd's reframing of her photographs in the new context of social media, Ruocco discusses her practice as feminist auto-citation.

In our new issue MAI 15, Assunta Ruocco takes us on an absorbing exploration of artist Alison Lloyd (1957-2024) focusing on her use of Instagram to revive her archive of early photographs from the 1970s & 1980s. www.maifeminism.com/insertingher... #feminism #selfportrait #photograhpy #academicsky

Sexual Trauma & Feminist Self-Portraiture in Sex Education Moore argues that Sex Education is a young adult text revealing the power of feminist self-portraiture to disrupt ableism and rape culture.

Amber Moore uses feminist theory, crip theory and witnessing to explore feminist self portraiture in the TV show Sex Education. www.maifeminism.com/sexual-traum... Just one of the insightful articles in our new issue MAI 15. #feminism #tv #academicsky

Disorderly Bodies: Self-portraiture as Emancipation for Japanese Women Exploring Japanese women's photography, Cavazzuti argues that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement.

Next up: www.maifeminism.com/disorderly-b... Federica Cavazzuti explores Japanese women’s photography arguing that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement. #feminism #photography #academicsky

Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self–portraiture Introducing the issue, Orcutt and Woolley highlight that feminist self-representation is an inquiry into evolving intersectional experiences.

Let's dive in...over this week we'll be sharing articles from our new Issue 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture. What better place to begin than the introduction by guest editors Elizabeth Orcutt and Dawn Woolley. www.maifeminism.com/intersection... #feminism #portrait #academicsky

Focus Issue Fifteen: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture Our authors demonstrate that women's self-portraiture in media is always personal, performative, and intensely political.

*Happy dance* It's new issue day!! Welcome to MAI Issue 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, a packed issue highlighting the personal, performative, and intensely political forms of women’s self-portraiture in visual media. #feminism #visualarts www.maifeminism.com/issues/focus...

Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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Pioneering Feminist Arab Filmmaker Heiny Srour’s Documentary ‘Leila and the Wolves’ Lands 40th Anniversary U.S. Release — Watch Trailer Arab filmmaker Heiny Srour's 'Leila and the Wolves' opens in the U.S. for the first time in 40 years.

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Affect in Fandom This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan ...

Affect in Fandom is out soon, which I co-edited with great colleagues! It's an open-access book with splendid scholarship on fan fic, cosplay and games. How do feelings, texts and memories shape fandom? What do fans create, and why? Find out in March! #mediastudies www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

The Nightmare Before Christmas This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and hi…

It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors.

Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

A reminder that our CFP for women's writing is still live!

CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.

New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky

The Men Who Dressed Me: Buscemi, Cash & Dad Wilson offers a confessional account on how popular culture's representations of masculinity may contribute to the shaping of trans identity.

Did you know that MAI also accepts creative work? Creative responses can take any form, are peer reviewed using our fair, transparent approach and are an important aspect of creative scholarship. Honor Wilson's confessional in MAI 14 is a great example maifeminism.com/the-men-who-... #academicsky

Women's Health on Film: A Conversation with Alison Ramsey Ramsey reflects on the benefits of increased media visibility of menopause in the context of the struggle for justice in women's health.

Rose Mulraney talks with Alison Ramsey about their shared interests in women’s wellbeing and the use of animation and found footage in filmmaking to help illuminate hidden stories. maifeminism.com/womens-healt... #Academicsky #health

Situating Rhetorical Listening as a Collaborative Pedagogical Tool Kiernan offers an account from her classroom to illuminate how rhetorical listening raises social awareness to benefit students' game design.

Happy New Year! Still lots to read and enjoy in our latest issue Feminist Pedagogies in Games, including Julia Kiernan's inspiring account of the power of listening maifeminism.com/situating-rh... #Academicsky #feminism #pedagogy

The Beloved Bodies of Friendship Photography Takings pics of her old friends, Rizzo tests Barthes' arguments around affective photography to come to unexpected conclusions.

It's the time of year to think back as well as forward. Teresa Rizzo explores remembering through the practice of rephotography in our latest issue: maifeminism.com/the-beloved-... #academicsky #feminism #photography

What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.

Experimental Game Design & Practices of Care Ruzanka demonstrates how class application of feminist practice of care can encourage students to push boundaries in their game design.

"Videogames are typically associated with challenge and competition, but games can also incorporate representations and mechanics of care." Silvia Ruzanka explores alternate modes of understanding games in our new issue: maifeminism.com/experimental... #feminism #games #academicsky

Against the ‘Aesthetic Turn’ in Cinema The year in film: 2024 was the year the film industry could no longer ignore the real world

"cinema can be more than a site of ponderous ‘dialogue and exchange’. It can also be a battleground." Ian Wang in Art Review on film's turn away from the real world. artreview.com/the-year-in-...

agreed! it goes where many writers/directors may fear to tread....

Neurodivergent Feminist Teaching & Play Nygren explores literary and experienced worlds as 'neuroqueer' to show how they can be used in pedagogy of games and play.

Anna Nygren explores the world of 'neuroqueer' in her article for our latest issue Feminist Pedagogy in Games maifeminism.com/neurodiverge... #academicsky #gaming #play #feminism

Mending the 'Magic' Circle: Crafting Feminist Pedagogy in Game Design When classrooms have become ideological battlegrounds, the authors devise an inclusive games design pedagogy using crafting as their method.

"The game design and game studies classroom continually struggle with the same conflicts, culture wars, and exclusionary practices that dominate the game industry itself." Anne Sullivan and Anastasia Salter look for solutions to the status quo maifeminism.com/mending-the-... #academicsky #feminism

Feminist Pedagogies for Games: An Introduction - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture MAI editors illuminate the need for more feminist voices to rejuvenate the pedagogy in the popular yet male-dominated games design.

Let's start at the beginning: the guest editors of our latest issue explain the importance of feminist voices in teaching games design: "‘who are we teaching, and what can we learn from them?’ "
maifeminism.com/feminist-ped... #feminism #academicsky #gamesdesign

Taught to Awaken: The Experience of Games Student-Turned-Teacher Alexandersson documents her personal journey as a student-turned-teacher in games education through the discovery of feminist pedagogy.

Over the next few days we'll be dipping into and sharing some of the wonderful new content from current issue. Starting with Sandra Alexandersson who writes about her experience of learning, and teaching, games design. maifeminism.com/taught-to-aw... #Academicsky #feminism #games

Focus Issue Fourteen: Feminist Pedagogies in Games Our authors examine the male-dominated HE field of teaching games, pleading for more inclusive pedagogies to depart from patriarchal methods.

Joy of joys, our new issue! Feminist Pedagogies in Games Commissioned by our guest editors, Rebecca Rouse, Josefin Westborg and Amy Corron Youmans, explores game design and teaching games from a feminist perspective //maifeminism.com/issues/focus-issue-fourteen-feminist-pedagogies-in-games/