Women's, Gender and Social Justice

June 3rd-5th, 2026 | Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)

Submission Deadline: January 26, 2026, 11:59 PM EST

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN) invites proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at Université de Montréal between June 3rd and 5th, that coincides with the INKE Partnership annual meeting and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). The Society encourages submissions on all topics relating to theory and practice in the evolving field of Digital Humanities. Research-creation approaches that engage with digital methods as both scholarly and artistic practice are welcome. We invite researchers, students, librarians, archivists, artists, designers, and public intellectuals to present their research and work.

This year, we are particularly interested in exploring the notion of “Untranslatable.” Digital Humanities explore and mobilize cultural objects that undergo digitization, modelling, or editorialization. These digital representations result from translation or remediation processes that can introduce biases, reductions, and simplifications. Drawing on the notion of the “untranslatable” proposed by the French philosopher Barbara Cassin, the conference will examine the things that either resist translation, or cannot be translated, due to their materiality and/or cultural specificity.

Proposals for papers, digital demonstrations, and panels will be accepted until January 26, 2026 and must be submitted to https://conftool.net/csdh-schn-2026/.

You may view the full CFP at our association’s website or attached in the document below. We hope to see you there!

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Appel à communications : CSDH/SCHN Congrès 2026 
3-5 juin 2026 | Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)

Date limite de soumission: 26 janvier 2026 (23 h 59, heure de l’Est)

La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (SCHN/CSDH) invite à soumettre des propositions de communications individuelles, de panels et de démonstrations numériques pour son congrès annuel, qui se tiendra à l’Université de Montréal du 3 au 5 juin 2026. Le congrès interviendra conjointement avec la rencontre annuelle du partenariat INKE ainsi qu’avec le Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). La SCHN/CSDH encourage des propositions sur tous les sujets relatifs à la fois à la théorie et la pratique dans le champ évolutif des Humanités numériques. Les approches en recherche-création qui mobilisent les méthodes numériques à la fois comme pratique académique et artistique sont bienvenues. Nous invitons les chercheurs, les étdudiants, les bibliothécaires ou les archivistes, les artistes, designers et les intellectuels publics à présenter leur travail et leur recherche.

Cette année, le congrès s’intéresse tout particulièrement à la notion d’« intraduisible ». Les humanités numériques explorent et mobilisent des objets culturels qui donnent lieu à des processus de numérisation, de modélisation ou d’éditorialisation. Ces représentations numériques résultent de traductions ou de remédiations susceptibles d’introduire des biais, des réductions et des simplifications. En s’appuyant sur la notion d’« intraduisible » développée par la philosophe française Barbara Cassin, le congrès examinera ce qui résiste à la traduction, ou ce qui ne peut être traduit, en raison de sa matérialité et/ou de sa spécificité culturelle.

Nous accepterons les propositions pour des présentations, tables rondes et démonstrations jusqu’au 23 janvier 2026. Celles-ci doivent être soumises à https://conftool.net/csdh-schn-2026/.

Vous trouverez l’appel aux propositions complet sur le site web de notre société, et attachée au présent message. Nous espérons vous vous rencontrer cet été!

In the 2021 volume, Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the Fat Body, editors Lynne Gerber, Susan Hill, and LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant identify four areas of potential scholarship at the intersection of fat studies and religion: 1)  religion and the fat body 2) religion and embodiment more generally 3) religion, food and eating 4) weight loss and food restriction. The editors report that their call for papers was met almost exclusively with scholarship at the intersection of Protestant Christianity and weight loss, and their introductory essay ends with a call for broader (fatter) scholarship. 

Our two-part call for a special issue of Body and Religion takes up the exhortation to fatten the field. Authors should locate themselves in the calls: how is your scholarship spreading into new avenues of research (Part I) and/or thickening the places where additional scaffolding to central critiques is most vital (Part II)?

Part I: Fattening the Field: New Directions in Fat Studies and Religion

Let’s fatten the field. Some examples of possibilities and directions:

• Phillip Joy and Adam Davies’s 2024 essay “Compassionately Fat: An Autotheoretical Exploration of Queer Bodies” draws on the Buddhist concept of compassion to narrate their existence as fat queer people outside the socially constructed constraints of thinness. What other cultures, religions, places, or historical moments should be in conversation with fat studies? 
• Where are the fat people who practice religion, like Rabbi Minna Bromberg as she describes in her “Your Belly is a Heap of Wheat: A Torah of Fat Liberation”? Standing in front of her community, holding the Torah, its “rolls” against her “rolls,” the Rabbi hears the Song of Songs’ praise of a woman’s rounded belly call out to her and finds a path to fat liberation. 
• What does it mean to be fat at the intersection of religion and disability, queerness, race or something else, as modelled by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant in “Fat Spirit: Obesity, Religion, and Sapphmammibel in Contemporary Black Film”? Manigault-Bryant critiques the “sapphmamibel,” a composite character of sapphire, mammy, and jezebel portrayed by black comedians in fat suits, which perpetuates oppressive stereotypes and risks transmitting a narrow view of black Christianity to a wider audience. 
• What alternative subjectivities spread out as we consider fat ways of being? 
• What does a fat pedagogy look like in the religious studies classroom? 

This call is purposefully broad, seeking expansive, overflowing possibilities. Feel free to reach out to the editors to propose a topic not listed here. 

Part II: Thinness is Next to Godliness? Revisiting Christianity’s Role in Fatphobia

In contemporary Western society, the body is a moral object: fat bodies are bad, and thin bodies are good. Over the past 25 years, groundbreaking scholarship at the intersection of Christian history, theology, and ethnography has demonstrated some of the ways Christianity is entangled with the contemporary concepts of the body, diet culture, and more. Marie Griffith’s Born Again Bodies traces white, middle-class, Protestant Christian devotional practices as they shift from a norm of Christian life and civic duty guided by asceticism and repentance to a fixation on perfect health that demonstrates a regenerated body. A regenerated–resurrected–body carries outward proof that it is saved and that other bodies are not. Sabrina String’s book Fearing the Black Body expands Griffith’s work, demonstrating how fat black enslaved women became the sinful foil to good white thin women. 

This call for papers seeks work that revisits and expands the critique of Christianity’s role in fatphobia, diet culture, healthism, and other oppressive categories. What is vital to this moment? Should we talk about the intersection of fatphobia and capitalism? Further work on sex, gender, sexuality, and religion? Perhaps, given the current political enviroment(s), there is work to be done around transgender bodies and religion? Again, we are open to a broad range of topics, please reach out if you have questions. 

Proposed Timeline:

Paper proposals: September 15th, 2025

Half Draft Papers:  February 16th, 2026

Full Draft Papers: June 1st, 2026

Revisions in Response to Review: Approx. September 30th, 2026

Proposed Publication: Fall-Winter 2026
Please send 250-word proposals to Lisa Gasson-Gardner lgassongardner@mtroyal.ca and Carolina Glauster cglauster@drew.edu  by September 15, 2025.

Generation: A Critical Femininities Issue
Editors: Hannah Maitland, Andi Schwartz and Laura Brightwell

Deadline: October 31, 2025

To generate is to cause, create, or bring about. A generation may refer to a relation in time or the creation of art, scholarship, solidarity, or power. This special issue of Atlantis aims to explore what is generative about femininities as well as the multifaceted dimensions of and attitudes toward femininities across different generations.

We ask these questions at a critical moment when notions of generation are being deployed in the service of a “return” to colonial, white, and middle- to upper-class definitions of femininity as essentialist, maternal, domestic, and subservient. This is evident through the rise of white supremacist “pronatalist” and “tradwife” movements, restrictive and intentionally transphobic legal definitions of womanhood, and the clawing back of reproductive rights. A classist, colonial, white, heterosexual, cis, able-bodied ideal of femininity is reinforced through the ongoing rise of the Far Right, Trump 2.0, rising wealth inequality, and violently enforced colonial borders, from Turtle Island to Palestine. In the current genocide in Gaza, hierarchies of femininities are on display: the non-normative, militant femininities of Israeli soldiers are presented as empowered, while Muslim femininities are depicted as weak and subjected to a voyeuristic, Orientalist gaze (Pratt et al. 2025). In this moment, critical analysis of femininities—and the racialized and classed hierarchies between them—is vital.

Critical femininities frameworks offer a useful alternative to these normative narratives and oppressive mobilizations of femininity. As a discipline and praxis, critical femininities challenges the essentialist collapse between femininity and womanhood, opening up possibilities of a range of non- and anti-normative femininities. Critical femininities scholars consider femininity beyond its simplistic framing as a patriarchal tool of oppression to explore its potential as a radical site of political, theoretical, and cultural engagement and production (Brightwell and Taylor 2021; Dahl 2012; Hoskin and Blair 2022; McCann 2018; Nash 2018; Schwartz 2020; Spurgas 2021; Stardust 2015; Streeter 2021; Taylor and Hoskin 2023).

Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, disabled and femme theorists have critiqued colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist definitions of lineage, and envisioned alternative generational kinship structures that resist the limitations placed on femmes and feminine subjects (Eguchi and Long 2018; Hill Collins 2000; Weston 1991). French poststructuralist feminism from the 1970s on theorized écriture féminine, a feminist, non-patriarchal language (Cixous 1976; Irigaray 1985). Feminist and femme scholars have also presented femininity as a site that can generate affective connections (Dahl 2017; Kokka et al. 2024; Schwartz 2020), critical theoretical perspectives (Hoskin 2017; McFarland and Taylor 2021; Schwartz 2018; Shelton 2018), political movements and interventions (Brightwell 2025; Deliovsky 2008; Tinsley 2022), and expansive and reparative understandings of gender (Ellison 2019; Nnawulezi et al. 2015). As we witness the (re)generation of destructive norms of femininity and the attempted destruction of resistant cultures of femininity, we invite submissions that draw on these lineages to offer critical and intersectional contemplations about what past generations of femmes and feminine figures have left for us, and what we might leave for future generations.

This special issue of Atlantis seeks to expand upon the conversations initiated at Generation: The Fourth Annual Critical Femininities Conference, hosted by the Centre for Feminist Research at York University from August 16-18, 2024. We invite proposals developed from presentations delivered at this conference and new proposals that interrogate how various social, cultural, political, and technological factors intersect with and shape the generative and generational experiences and discourses of femininity. Possible themes may include, but are not limited to:

• Femme perspectives and meditations on generations, kinship, lineage, and structural disruptions in intergenerational relationships (e.g. the AIDS epidemic; the occupation and genocide in Palestine, residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; transnational adoption)
• Femininity and matricentric and/or maternal feminisms, particularly as they intersect with race, class, transness, queerness, or disability
• Transnational, decolonial, queer and trans BIPOC perspectives on femininity, generation, and kinship
• Indigenous, Indigiqueer, and Two-Spirit perspectives on femininity, generation, and kinship
• Generations of trans and nonbinary perspectives on femininities, femme communities, and femme-inist futures
• Fat studies perspectives on femininities, femme communities, and fat femme-inist futures
• Critical femininities perspectives on history and history-making
• The role of racialized femininities in war, colonization, and nation-building
• (Inter)generational work building on the provocations and limitations of proto-femme theories in literature, cultural production, and art, such as the work and legacy of Sojourner Truth, Judy Chicago, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Patricia Hill Collins, and others
• Femme and feminine-generated subjugated knowledges, low theory (including popular culture and cultural production), and forms of creative resistance
• Critical perspectives on pronatalism, “tradwives” and other regressive approaches to reproductive justice, families, reproduction, and reproductive labour
• Queer, trans, crip, BIPOC, femme, and feminist environmental and anti-capitalist critiques of the generation of wealth, electricity, generative AI, and extractive attitudes towards ecosystems; and alternative orientations (decolonial, feminine, holistic, nurturing, and other) towards these crises and desires
• Posthumanism and the Dishuman as a turn to “generation” and creative notions of the body
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Submissions can be single-authored or co-authored academic papers, autotheoretical and artistic narrative, visual art (static images that can be published in PDF format only), poetry, and analyses of art, music, and film. We welcome submissions from graduate students, emerging, independent, and established scholars, and artists/writers working beyond the university.

Submission Process

**Please read Atlantis Journal’s scope and submission guidelines at atlantisjournal.ca before submitting work for follow the guidelines below carefully.*

• Submit an abstract of 250-300 words by October 31, 2025.
• Abstracts must be submitted through Atlantis’ OJS platform. Clearly state in the “Comments to Editor” that your submission is for the “Generation” issue.
• Submit your abstract as an “article text.” Note that OJS has no provisions for submitting an abstract alone.

Requests for full papers will be sent by December 15, 2025.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full article by May 30, 2026. Invitation to submit a full paper does not indicate or guarantee publication. All research papers will be sent for anonymous external peer review.

For questions about OJS and/or the submission process, please contact Katherine Barrett, Managing Editor: atlantis.journal@msvu.ca. For questions about submission scope and content, please contact the guest editors Hannah Maitland, Andi Schwartz, and Laura Brightwell at generationspecialissue [at] gmail [dot] com.

Works Cited

Brightwell, Laura. 2025.“The Femme, the Mother, and the Lesbian Feminist: Rereading Queer Theory’s Difficult Family Relationships.” PhD diss. York University.

Brightwell, Laura, and Allison Taylor. 2021. “Why Femme Stories Matter: Constructing Femme Theory through Historical Femme Life Writing.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 25 (1) : 18-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2019.1691347

Cixous, Hélène. 1976. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Translated by Keith Cohen, and Paula Cohen. Signs 1 (4): 875–93.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173239

Dahl, Ulrika. 2012. “Turning like a Femme: Figuring Critical Femininity Studies.” NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 20 (1): 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2011.650708.

Dahl, Ulrika. 2017. “Femmebodiment: Notes on Queer Feminine Shapes of Vulnerability.” Feminist Theory 18 (1): 35–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700116683902.

Deliovsky, Katerina. 2008. “Normative White Femininity: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Beauty. Atlantis 33 (1): 49-59.

Eguchi, Shinsuke, and Hannah R. Long. 2018. “Queer Relationality as Family: Yas fats! Yas Femmes! Yas Asians!.” Journal of Homosexuality 66 (11): 1589-. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2018.1505756

Ellison, Treva Carrie. 2019. “Black Femme Praxis and the Promise of Black Gender.” The Black Scholar 49 (1): 6–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2019.1548055

Hill Collins, Patricia. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. 2nd Ed. Routledge.

Hoskin, Rhea Ashley. 2017. “Femme Theory: Refocusing the Intersectional Lens.” Atlantis 38 (1): 95-109.

Hoskin, Rhea Ashley, and Karen L. Blair. 2022. “Critical Femininities: A ‘New’ Approach to Gender Theory.” Psychology & Sexuality 13 (1): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2021.1905052.

Irigaray, Luce. 1985. This Sex Which Is Not One. Translated by Catherine Porter and Carolyn Burke. Cornell University Press.

Kokka, Kari, Rochelle Gutiérrez, and Marrielle Myers. 2024. “A Love Letter to Women, Femme, and Nonbinary Critical Scholars of Color: Theorizing the Four I’s of Love in SiSTARhood.” Qualitative Inquiry 0 (0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241269909

McCann, Hannah. 2018. Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation. Routledge.

McFarland, Jami, and Allison Taylor. 2021. “‘Femme ain’t frail’:(Re)considering Femininity, Aging, and Gender Theory.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 25 (1): 53-70.

Nash, Jennifer C. 2018. Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality. Duke University Press.

Nnawulezi, Nkiru A, Shani Robin, and Abigail A Sewell. 2015. “XII. Femme-Inism: In Daily Pursuit of Personal Liberation.” Feminism & Psychology 25 (1): 67–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353514563094.

Pratt, Nicola, Afaf Jabiri, Ashjan Ajour, Hala Shoman, Maryam Aldossari, and Sara Ababneh. 2025. ‘Why Palestine Is a Feminist Issue: A Reckoning with Western Feminism in a Time of Genocide’. International Feminist Journal of Politics 27 (1): 226–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2025.2455477.

Schwartz, Andi. 2018. “Locating Femme Theory Online.” First Monday 23 (7). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i7.9266

Schwartz, Andi. 2020. “Low Femme, Low Theory: An Ethno-Archive of Femme Internet Culture.” PhD diss., York University. 

Shelton, Perrē L. 2018. “Reconsidering Femme Identity: On Centering Trans* Counterculture and Conceptualizing Trans*Femme Theory.” Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships 5 (1): 21-41. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bsr.2018.0013.

Spurgas, Alyson. 2021. “‘Solidarity in Falling Apart: Toward a Crip, Collectivist, and Justice-Oriented Theory of Feminine Fracture’.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.25158/l10.1.9.

Stardust, Zahra. 2015. “Critical Femininities, Fluid Sexualities and Queer Temporalities: Erotic Performers on Objectification, Femmephobia and Oppression.” In Queer Sex Work, edited by Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher, and Nicola Smith. Routledge.

Streeter, Rayanne. 2021. “‘Bargaining with the Status Quo’: Reinforcing and Expanding Femininities in the #bodypositive Movement.” Fat Studies 12(1), 120–134. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2006958

Taylor, Allison, and Rhea Ashley Hoskin. 2023. “Fat Femininities: On the Convergence of Fat Studies and Critical Femininities.” Fat Studies 12 (1): 72–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.1985813.

Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha. 2022. The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art For Survival. University of Texas Press.

Weston, Kath. 1991. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. Columbia University Press.

The Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind (CJAM) is excited to announce an open call for submissions for Volume 3, Issue 1. We are a student-led, student-focused, open access, peer reviewed scholarly journal published by York University.

We invite undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines to contribute their research and insights to this edition. Whether you are an experienced researcher or submitting your first academic paper, this is an opportunity to showcase your work and engage with the academic community.

In line with our Embracing Equity Policy, we welcome papers that critically engage with gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and other axes of identity. By encouraging and amplifying different voices, we aim to ensure that our journal reflects a broad spectrum of experiences and intellectual contributions. We also invite submissions that challenge traditional power dynamics in academia and that provide fresh, intersectional approaches to research.

We encourage professors and faculty members to share this opportunity with their students, particularly those in marginalized communities. Co-authored papers between students and faculty members are also welcome.

Who Should Submit? We welcome papers from students across all fields of study. Whether your research falls within the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, or any other discipline, we are open to diverse approaches and methodologies. We especially encourage contributions that address contemporary issues, historical analyses, theoretical frameworks, or interdisciplinary research with a focus on equity and social justice.

Review Process
All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process, ensuring that selected papers meet the highest academic standards. Our review process emphasizes constructive feedback to help authors refine and improve their work.

Key Dates

• Submission Deadline: September 21, 2025
• Expected Publication Date: February 2026

How to Submit
To submit your paper, please visit our submission portal [here]. Make sure to review our full submission guidelines before uploading your manuscript.

Contact Us
For any inquiries or further information, feel free to contact us at info@academicmind.ca. We are happy to assist with any questions you might have regarding the submission process, guidelines, or the scope of the journal.

Editors: Katelin Albert and Thea Cacchioni

Abstracts Due: September 15, 2025

In 1978, Ehrenreich and English published their landmark book, For Her Own Good: 150 years of Expert Advice to Women, revealing how scientific and medical “expertise” had been used to constrain and pathologize women’s lives, in the name of science. Today in 2025, nearly five decades later, the onslaught of expert advice on health, self-help, fitness, productivity, sexuality, and lifestyle transformations has grown exponentially. The contemporary capitalist wellness industry is still aimed at middle-class, able-bodied, consumers aiming to be ‘better than well’ and continues to be predominantly, although not exclusively, geared toward women. However, through grassroots social media platforms and state-governed public health channels, expert advice targets broader audiences (for instance, people with addictions, people with mental health issues, neurodivergent people, people with disabilities, trans and intersex folks, people who are dying, people who are aging). Thus, medical professionals with public platforms, celebrity gurus, holistic healers, biohackers, influencers, wellness coaches, psychologists, counsellors, occupational therapists, and a variety of health professionals offer competing solutions for how to live a better, healthier, longer life via contrasting cultures of advice. Through cures, fixes, and programs aimed at self-regulation and empowerment through knowledge, these various experts dictate how to be a healthy “neoliberal biological citizen.”[1] We raise an eyebrow at this phenomenon. Our concern stems from the proliferation of this advice in the context of healthism, capitalist wellness culture, a post-truth climate, anti-science, individualism, bio/medicalization, a co-option of feminism and radical self-care, and paternalistic policies rooted in colonial structures. Whether framed as “empowering,” “common sense,” or “evidence-based” advice, we wonder: in a sea of advice from a variety of sources (solicited or not), where does this leave people and communities in terms of their health, agency, or justice?

At its core, this edited volume will critically examine contemporary “expert advice” in its various forms and from a variety of actors and institutions. It will critically consider dominant discourses and social forms of consciousness on a variety of expert advice directed at women, gender-diverse people, Indigenous communities, racialized people, people with disabilities, and others who experience oppression. We encourage submissions that focus on health, power, and the politics of expertise. Our hope is to bring together contributors to produce an edited book that critically considers all types of “expert” advice to better understand the discursive landscape that has material consequences on people’s lives and that shapes their health and life decision-making. 

Guiding Questions

The following questions guide the scope of the book, and we welcome papers that are in line with these questions.

·               Who are experts and where is expert advice found?

·               How do experts define, frame, or understand un/healthy?

·               What assumptions do experts make about the consumers of their advice?

·               What systems of power does expert advice uphold and hat how does expert advice uphold or challenge these systems of power? 

·               In what ways, and on what basis, are truth’s constructed in the landscape of competing advice? What are the conditions that enable these truths and competing advice?

·               What contradictions can be found across types of advice (e.g., medical vs influencer)?

·               To what extend is seeking out, following, and acting on advice a choice?

Possible Themes and Topics

We invite contributions that explore, critique, or expand upon the following areas. Note, this is not a comprehensive list, and we do not expect one piece to cover multiple themes:

Knowledge, Expertise, and Power: Experts, Technology, Compulsory Health and Wellness

Bodies, Health, and Wellness: Nutrition, Diet, Weight Management and Medications, Fatness, Disordered Eating, Vaccinations, Biohacking (supplements, etc.), Cultural and Spiritual Health and Wellbeing, Health Related Cultural Co-option, “Healthy” Aging, Pelvic health, Endometriosis, Chronic Pain, HPV, STIs, STBBIs

Mental Health and Neurodiversity: Mental Health and Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment; Neurodivergence

Disability & Ableism: Surveillance, “Fixing,” Curative Violence, Accommodating 

Sexuality, Sex and Gender, Identity: Relationships,“Sexual Dysfunction,” Compulsory Sexuality, “Successful” Heterosexuality, Sex for Health, Polyamory and Non-monogamy, Technologies of Gender Identity and Expression, Gender Euphoria and Dysphoria 

Reproductive Health: Pregnancy, IVF, Fertility, Birth, Birth control, Child Loss, Menstruation

Violence, Safety, Bodily Autonomy: Domestic Violence, Gender Based Violence, Sexual Violence

Substance Use: Drug and Alcohol Use, Harm Reduction Strategies and Approaches

Care, Community, Relationships: ‘Healthy’ Families, Marriage, Communal Living and Community, Critical Self-Care, Motherhood, Parenthood

Structural and Socioeconomic Factors: Poverty and Low-Income Living, Death and Dying

Submission Schedule

At this time, we invite abstracts for consideration for a peer reviewed edited book for intended publication with a leading press. In addition to the abstract, please include an author bio and a statement on the progress of the research under consideration. 

·               An email (suggested but not required) expressing your interest is welcomed by Aug 15, 2025.

·               Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by September 15, 2025.

·               The selection of abstracts will be completed by December 1, 2025

·               Full submissions for external peer review will be due July 31, 2026.

Please send your abstract, bio, and progress statement to: katelinalbert@uvic.ca and tcacchio@uvic.ca

We encourage submissions from early-career scholars and senior scholars, community-based researchers, and contributors from underrepresented identities and communities. We are excited to think together about what it means to live “for your own good” and how different experts tell us what it means.

Editors: Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic (University of Waterloo), Veronica Kitchen (University of Waterloo), Tanya Narozhna (University of Winnipeg) 

Call:

We invite contributions to an edited volume exploring the complex and evolving relationship between gender and national security. At a time when international commitments to gender equality are being eroded in some contexts but strengthened in others, this volume seeks to examine how national security politics and policies intersect with feminist ideas and practices. 

The definition of national security has largely been shaped by realist theories/perspectives that centre national sovereignty, statecraft, and military defence against external threats. These conceptualizations have been at odds with non-traditional conceptions of security, including human security and feminist paradigms. Feminists have used gender as a key analytical category and have recognized gender as embedded in power relationships that sustain social hierarchies and shape the theories and practices of security. Feminist scholars have long interrogated the core concepts of security itself, as well as war, violence, terrorism, peace, state, sovereignty, and power. In doing so, they have put embodied subjects and their everyday experiences at the center of their investigations, unearthing the gender blindness or hyper-masculine bias of national security in realist terms. They have brought to light new marginalized subjects of security, recast the meaning of security, and expanded the scope of security. As feminists render problematic what is taken for granted in mainstream security discourse, in many ways, feminist and realist approaches to security appear irreconcilable. However, following Sjoberg’s method of ‘constructive engagement’ (2009), this volume seeks to explore points of intersection, friction, and transformation between national security and gender. 

We welcome contributions that critically examine how gender is integrated or resisted within national security policies and practices. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Feminist Foreign Policies and/or National Action Plans (NAPs) on Women, Peace and Security and their relation to national security
• Gender mainstreaming in defence and security institutions
• Backlash to gender equality initiatives in national security contexts
• Resistance to gendering national security in authoritarian states as well as states where there is increasing erosion of democratic norms and concentration of executive power
• Shifts in the relationship between gender and national security across governments or over time
• Theoretical reflections on the compatibility (or incompatibility) of feminist and realist security frameworks

We aim to compile diverse perspectives and encourage submissions from scholars at all career stages, Indigenous perspectives, and Global South perspectives.

Submission instructions:

If you would like to submit a proposal, please send the following information to Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic at sbiskups@uwaterloo.ca by July 15, 2025:

• Proposed title
• Author name, affiliation and a short bio (100 words or less)
• Abstract (200-300 words)

Tentative Timeline 

Early 2026: Submission of the complete manuscript to the publisher (TBD)

July 15, 2025: Chapter proposals due

Mid-August 2025: Notifications to authors & feedback on chapter proposals will be shared

Mid-October 2025: Submission of first chapter drafts

Mid-November 2025: Editorial feedback and revision guidance will be shared

January 2026: Final revised chapters due

Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice is currently open for non-themed research papers, book reviews, and literary work (i.e. work that fits our mandate but is outside the scope of the Call for Papers). For all submissions, please read our submission guidelines and about page before sending work. For questions, please contact Katherine Barrett (Managing Editor), atlantis.journal@msvu.ca

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The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University, Montreal, Canada invites applications for the position of Muriel Gold Visiting Professor. This nil-salary position is open to applicants wishing to spend one or two academic terms (Fall 2026 and/or Winter 2027) in residence at McGill to carry out research on gender, sexuality or feminist studies. The Institute is located at the center of a stimulating, bilingual, urban environment in the city of Montreal. It offers workspace and support, an ongoing seminar program, and contact with faculty members at McGill and neighboring Montreal universities.

To be eligible, applicants must hold a faculty position in another academic institution. The position is ideal for those with research leave funding, a portable research fellowship, or sabbatical. Research funding of up to $5,000 is available from the IGSF. Visiting professors participate in our work-in-progress series and have an opportunity to present and discuss their research with an engaged and enthusiastic research community.

While we may be able to provide administrative advice on the following matters, we ask that IGSF visiting professors assume full responsibility on matters relating to visa applications, health insurance, housing and living expenses. Please note in particular that Canada does not pay for hospital or medical services for visitors. We ask all visiting professors to secure health insurance for the duration of the stay in Canada.

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Required documents:

• One-page proposal describing the research to be undertaken while in residence

• A copy or link to a recent publication

• An up-to-date curriculum vitae

• An indication of the potential period of tenure as Muriel Gold Visiting Professor

This position is nil-salary.

Deadline to apply: February 15, 2026

Closing date: Friday, January 23, 2026

Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (GRSJ)
 3-Year Assistant Prof of Teaching (without Review)

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Laurier’s 12-month Social Justice and Community Engagement Master of Arts program is now accepting applications for September 2026.

Do you know someone who is passionate about deepening their understanding of social and environmental justice while learning concrete skills about how to contribute to meaningful change locally and globally? If yes, then please forward them this email!

📅 Deadline to apply: January 31, 2026

📍 Offered in-person on the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University

🔎 Check out our website for more information: SJCE MA
🤔 Questions? Email SJCE Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Rebecca Godderis at: rgodderis@wlu.ca

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies is a hub for feminism, social justice studies, and engaged citizenship at the University of Alberta. The MA Program in Gender and Social JusticeStudies is committed to intersectional analysis in historical and contemporary contexts. Its focus is on interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the political, aesthetic, and ethical questions that arise from the study of gender and social justice. 

Professors in the department work on a wide variety of research projects in gender and international development, sexuality and queer studies, feminist, queer, and trans media studies, critical animal and food studies, feminist religious studies, feminist cultural production, indigenous ways of knowing and kinship systems, and more. Core and affiliated faculty members are trained and active in a wide variety of disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and beyond. The Institute for Intersectionality Studies brings together intersectional gender-themed research at the University of Alberta. 

We invite students from all academic backgrounds with a passion for social justice to apply.

Program Features:

• 12-month (course-based) or 24-month (thesis-based) options.
• Full- or part-time options.
• Option to pursue a Specialization in Digital Humanities.
• Research or creative theses and capstones suited to each student’s interests and goals.
• Core Social Justice Workshop: explore community social justice work in theory and as praxis.
• Core Gender Research Workshop: delve into the published and ongoing research projects of core and affiliated faculty members from across the university.
• Varied Gender and Social Justice seminars. 2025-2026 classes include Feminist Approaches to Health and Wellness; Feminism and Sexual Assault; Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice; Law and Feminism in Canada; Body Politics; Transnational Feminism; Indigenous Genders and Sexualities; Feminist Research Methodology; and Feminist Narrative Inquiry.
• Electives from across the university. 
• Graduate Assistantships and scholarships for most full-time students.

The program is enhanced through a Feminist Research Speaker Series and extensive university-wide Professional Development programming. Graduates of the program will be able to work in multiple social justice contexts, including education, non-profit organizations, or government.

Questions can be directed to gsjgrad@ualberta.ca. 

Deadline for Fall Term 2026 admission: January 15, 2026

The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Public Memory & Public Histories. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026.

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The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) and Disability Studies Program (DS) invite applications for a designated* Probationary, full-time Instructor III position, with a concentration/disciplinary specialization in Disability Studies for qualified candidates who self-identify as women, racialized, Indigenous, disabled, and 2SLGBTQ+. This position commences January 1, 2026, and is subject to final budgetary approval. Applicants are required to hold a PhD in DS, WGS, or a related discipline.

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The Philanthropy and Nonprofit graduate program, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University is launching a new research initiative on Women in Philanthropy. Women have always been important in philanthropy but are becoming even more so as donors, social innovators, investors, founders and leaders of nonprofits and foundations.  We have three year funding for a postdoc and for a PhD student.  Please see full ad here.

Policy Press and the Management Board of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence (JGBV) invite applications for up to three Co-Editors to take over from the current Editor in Chief of the journal, for a period of three years from August 2025 with the possibility of renewing for a second two-year term. Please see the full ad here.

Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice is looking for peer reviewers to read and review scholarly articles. As a scholarly journal, Atlantis follows an anonymized peer review process for all research papers. We maintain a roster of available peer reviewers from a wide range of fields related to Women’s and Gender Studies. Find out more about Atlantis by visiting their website.