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Feminist Friday 8/5

A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web

OLYMPICS, WEREWOLVES, & VAGINAS

NEWS AND COMMENTARY

Korryn Gaines and the Erasure of Violence Against Black Women by Muna MIre

FEATURES AND LONG READS

LISTEN: Popaganda: Sports and Capitalism by Sara Mirk

The Forgotten History of Female Athletes Who Organized Their Own Olympics by Jules Boykoff

A Closed Loop: Sex Work, Violence and Criminalisation by Molly Smith

Souls Special Issue: Black Women's Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics

Debugging Bias: Busting the Myth of Neutral Technology by Felicia L Montalvo 

Black Women Organize For The Future Of Pan-Africanism: The Sixth Pan-African Congress by Ashley Farmer

“Heed The Call!”: Black Women, Anti-Imperialism, And Black Anti-War Activism by Ashley Farmer

Female Werewolves in Pop Culture, Oh My by Magda Knight

Our Barbie Vaginas, Ourselves by Peggy Orenstein 

CALLS FOR PAPERS

The Anthropocene: Fiction and the End(s) of Human Ecologies

Screening Race: Constructions and Reconstructions in 21st Century Media

Popular Music and Society: Special Issue on Beyoncé

Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Annals of Science Student Essay Prize

Narratives by BRAVE Women of Color Academics

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal – Call for Papers

CFP: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present