From Guyana and Haiti to St. Croix and the Dominican Republic, Caribbean society, women, art, and much more are explored by our contributors in special issue 9.1 “The Unexpected Caribbean – Part I”. jstor.org/stable/10.5406…

A poet and scholar, bell hooks shaped paradigms about race, gender, and sexuality. CFP: womengenderandfamilies.ku.edu/cfp/cfp-honori… #bellhooks

WGFC invites 800-1000 word reflections to honor bell hooks’s legacy. Check out the CFP: womengenderandfamilies.ku.edu/cfp/cfp-honori… #bellhooks

The essays in issue 9.1 are woven together by their explorations of the Other in the geographical and geopolitical space of the Caribbean. Read more here: jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

Authors gathered in issue 9.1 challenge and rethink Otherness in various Caribbean spaces from a variety of scholarly and artistic perspectives. jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

Editors, Cecile Accilien and Giselle Anatol, and authors, Apricot Irving, Odile Ferly, Yumi Pak, Jessica Adams, JoAnna Poblete, and Grace Aneiza Ali come together in issue 9.1! jstor.org/stable/10.5406…

We hope you will enjoy the conversation guest editors Cecile Accilien and Giselle Anatol have convened in issue 9.1! You can find out more here: jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

We invite scholars and artists to submit critical/creative work on bell hooks. Abstracts due Jan 21. womengenderandfamilies.ku.edu/cfp/cfp-honori…

From Guyana and Haiti to St. Croix and the Dominican Republic, Caribbean society, women, art, and much more are explored by our contributors in special issue 9.1 “The Unexpected Caribbean – Part I”. jstor.org/stable/10.5406…

Apricot Irving challenges us to rethink how we assist others by inviting us to consider how power and positionality affect our interactions with Haiti. jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

Odile Ferly’s “Contrapuntal Reflections” pays attention to the symbolic role of Dominicanness in the Haitian literary imaginary. jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

Yumi Pak’s analysis of Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda brings to the forefront the tensions of colonial logic by virtue of race, gender, and sexuality: jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

In “Dispatches from the Edge of Empire,” Jessica Adams contextualizes disaster, imperialism, and concepts of home in a three-part essay. Read it here: jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

JoAnna Poblete’s “Women Community Warriors of St. Croix” focuses on women’s political involvement by weighing intimate relationships and career advancement. jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

Read Grace Aneiza Ali’s “Women, Art, and Activism in Guyana,” which portrays how women artists have challenged negative images of Guyana in their work. jstor.org/stable/10.5406… #TheUnexpectedCaribbean

To celebrate this Women’s History Month, Illinois Press is making WGFC essay “Women Community Warriors of St. Croix” by JoAnna Poblete temporarily free for the month of March! Read it now at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/wgfc/artic…. Don’t miss it!

The Illinois Press has made “‘Armed and Dangerous’: The Criminalization of Angela Davis and the Cold War Myth of America’s Innocence” by Meredith Roman temporarily free from now until May. Click the link to read it now! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/wgfc/artic…

From April 1st through June 30th, Illinois Press has granted free access to the WGFC article “On Pursuing Scholarship That Makes Me Whole: Reflections of an Asian Woman Critical Feminist Scholar of Education” by Yoon Ha Choi, PhD ! Read it here: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/wgfc/artic…