Online Special Issue: 2A

46.2A Feminist Youth Engagement: The Future of the Feminist Movement

Edited by Ana Antunes, Elise Homan, and Silvia Solís
Cover Art: Jessica Featherston and Franchesca Marisol Cabrera from "Una Respuesta to Katherine Dunham’s Veracruzana" by Kiri Avelar. Design by Silvia Solís.

This digital special issue is the final installment in a series of volumes commemorating the 50th anniversary of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. In this last celebratory volume, we look ahead to the work of young activists and scholars that are building the future of the movement. “Feminist Youth Engagement: The Future of the Feminist Movement" focuses on youth-led organizing, activism, and creative engagement with feminism, aiming to highlight the ways in which young people—especially young women of color—are transforming feminist thought, community, and social justice praxis today.

Introduction

In the introduction, Ana Antunes provides an overview of the fourteen pieces within the issue and their connection to Frontiers' 50th anniversary. In preparing for the journal's milestone, the editorial collective spent considerable time thinking with and about the history of the journal and of feminist theorizing and publishing more broadly. We revisited our own history, collecting oral stories from those who were a part of building the journal’s legacy; we explored our own archives and revisited pieces that impacted the field; and we looked at the current landscape of feminism and feminist publishing. These journeys through history, memory, and the archives revealed to us that Frontiers has made a tremendous impact in feminist scholarship and practice.

About the Editors

Ana Antunes

Dr. Ana Carolina Antunes is the Book Review Editor and Treasurer for Frontiers. She is originally from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, but she has lived in Salt Lake City, UT since 2006. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the Education, Culture & Society Department at the University of Utah and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Disability Studies in the same institution. Dr. Antunes develops participatory projects with young people of refugee and immigrant backgrounds in afterschool settings and it is interested in how racialized and gendered readings of bodies mediate relationships in the educational system.

Elise Homan

Dr. Elise Homan is the Managing Editor for Frontiers. She completed her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Utah. Her research examines the intersections of technology and media with contemporary activism and political movements with a concentration on cross-border and transnational contexts.

Silvia Solís

Dr. Silvia Patricia Solís is the Art Editor for Frontiers. She is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received her Ph.D from the University of Utah in Social Foundations with a focus in Anthropology of Education. U.S. Feminist of color, Indigenous Feminists, and decolonial feminist theory are at the center of her theoretical foundations. Her research traces curative knowings and practices people hold in relation to taking care and curing within family and community. It centers intergenerational learning, remembering, and everyday practices in the home and gardens of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in the diaspora living along the U.S. Mexico border.

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