<em>WSQ</em> “Body Matters” Special Issue Launch
Fri, Dec 5, 2025
4:00 PM–5:00 PM (EST)
This virtual launch event will take place online via Zoom livestream. Free and open to all. Register to attend online below. ASL interpretation will be provided.
Join us to mark the launch of the WSQ special issue, “Body Matters,” co-edited by Shereen Inayatulla and Andie Silva. This event will feature a reading and reflections from the “Alerts and Provocations” contributor, Dr. Dana M. Olwan.
This WSQ special issue launch event is co-presented and sponsored by The Center for the Humanities, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and Feminist Press.
Meet the Co-Editors
Shereen Inayatulla, Professor of English, teaches courses in composition and critical literacy studies at York College, CUNY. Her areas of research include autoethnography, antiracist feminist pedagogy, and queer theory.
Andie Silva is Professor of English at York College and Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests include book history, print and popular culture, and feminist digital pedagogy. You can read more at andiesilva.commons.gc.cuny.edu.
Meet the Featured Speaker
Dana M. Olwan is a Palestinian scholar who writes on gendered and sexual violence and transnational feminist solidarity. She is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Affiliate faculty in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at Syracuse University.
About WSQ Vol. 53 (Fall/Winter 2025) Body Matters:
Within the current paradigm of colonial exploitation, our bodies are sites of scrutiny, violence, commodification, racialization, policing, displacement, and strategic dehumanization. This moment demands renewed feminist critique of body politics and personhood. This special issue explores bodies marked by intersectional identities as sites of social and political violence but also as the vehicle for resistance, triumph, and decolonial justice.
FEATURING CONTRIBUTORS:
Tuka Al-Sahlani • María Mínguez Arias • Avery C. Castillo • Melissa Chadburn • Jia-Rui Cook • Vanessa Chica Ferreira • Lohitha Kethu • Damien Kritzer • Asma A. Neblett • Dana M. Olwan • Katrina M. Phillips • jah elyse sayers • Lava Schadde • Megha Sood • Gina Alexandra Srmabekian
We’re so excited to present this special issue. Take a sneak peek at the Table of Contents here or in the PDF below:
This WSQ special issue launch event is co-presented and sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Women and Society, and Feminist Press. ASL interpretation will be provided.
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