MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture

Stupid as You Say: A Poem - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture Anand offers a meditative, dialogic reflection on two opposing sensibilities that have often been aligned with binary gender categorisations.

We welcome creative submissions that centre feminist thought: video or photo essays, short films or poetry, such as this meditation by Pulkita Anand in our latest issue MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/stupid-as-yo... #feminism #poetry #academicsky

Urška Djukić & Women Voices in Slovenian Cinema Ana Šturm, from the Slovenian journal, Ekran, meets the award-winning director, Urška Djukić, to discuss her latest film, Little Trouble Girls (2025).

2025 was the 120th anniversary of Slovenian cinema. Ana Šturm interviews Urška Djukić about her film Little Trouble Girls and women's voices in Slovenian cinema for our latest edition MAI 15 Intersectional Selves Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/urska-djukic... #film #voice #academicsky

Women Photographers: Expanding Agenda & Subverting Powers The author ponders how the intertwining of gender and race reconfigures the dynamics of power in the photographic coverage of conflict.

Did you miss us? There's still lots to read in our latest issue MAI 15. Start the year off with Angela Varricchio exploring feminist perspectives on conflict photography. www.maifeminism.com/women-photog... #photography #feminism #academicsky

‘I Am Once Again Refracting’: Toward a Feminist Psychogeography Sharing a few poems, Bazil presents herself as an archivist of psychogeography, a witness to moments achingly tender and prismatic.

As we head toward the end of the year, take time to reflect. What better way to do so than with the poems of Madeleine Bazil www.maifeminism.com/i-am-once-ag... #poetry #feminism #psychogeography #academicsky

Our Queer-Selves: Design Practice as Self-Portrayal & Collective Expression Bottomley examines participatory design in queer football communities as a form of collective self-portraiture and resistance.

There's still time to catch up with our new issue MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture. Read Roxanne Bottomley's energising exploration of football and participatory design www.maifeminism.com/our-queer-se... #feminism #football #academicsky

Reconstructive Metadata: A Self-Portrait of the Feminist Reader In the word obsessed with data profiling, O'Connor creates a metadata of her feminist readings to develop a radical self-portrait.

Continuing our travels through our new issue MAI 15, follow Leela O'Connor as she explores what it is to be a feminist reader www.maifeminism.com/reconstructi... #reading #feminism #academicsky

Making the Feminist Intersectional Self Through Erotic Instagram Art Analysing two artists, Hana Shafi and Theo Grimes, Willcox explores the role of intersectionality in feminist art on Instagram.

Marissa Willcox explores intersectionality in the feminist Instagram art of Hana Shafi and Theo Grimes in our latest issue MAI 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/making-the-f... #art #feminism #academicsky

Maïwenn's Fragmented Self: Unveiling the Author Addressing the criticism of Maïwenn and her work, Tataroglu conducts a feminist and post-colonial examination of her directorial output.

Maïwenn is perhaps one of the most intriguing and controversial women directors in contemporary French cinema. Zelal Berfin Tataroglu explores Maïwenn's authorship in our new issue MAI 15 www.maifeminism.com/maiwenn-frag... #feminism #film #academicsky

Domestic Scientist & Artist: Bobby Baker’s Portrayals of Feminist Selfhood The iconic Bobby Baker discusses her radical journey, beginning from a challenging position in the male-dominated art landscape in the UK.

It's almost the weekend...Enjoy this conversation between Elizabeth Orcutt [guest editor of our current issue MAI15] and performance artist Bobby Baker www.maifeminism.com/domestic-sci... #feminism #performance #art #academicsky

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