• Editorial

    An Van Raemdonck (Ghent University), Louise Benson James (Ghent University), Chloé Janssen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

    Editorial

  • Title Page and Table of Contents

    Chloé Janssen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

    Title Page and Table of Contents

  • Empowering Inclusion through Self-Advocacy: Harnessing Language to Transform Stigma into Strength for Individuals With Physical Disabilities

    Cato Denissen (University of Antwerp)

    Empowering Inclusion through Self-Advocacy: Harnessing Language to Transform Stigma into Strength for Individuals With Physical Disabilities

  • Exploring Postfeminist Humor as a Collective Form of Resistance to Anti-feminism in China: A Textual Analysis of Radical Feminist Discourse on Weibo

    Qi Wu (Ghent University)

    Exploring Postfeminist Humor as a Collective Form of Resistance to Anti-feminism in China: A Textual Analysis of Radical Feminist Discourse on Weibo

  • The Queer Experience: A Phenomenological Approach to Life Trajectories from the Perspective of Diversity and Gender

    Nestor David Polo-Rojas (Universidad de las Américas)

    The Queer Experience: A Phenomenological Approach to Life Trajectories from the Perspective of Diversity and Gender

  • Literary Resistance in Contemporary Dalit Feminist Fiction: A Study of P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change and Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess

    Sharanya Devasya Ganesh (University of London)

    Literary Resistance in Contemporary Dalit Feminist Fiction: A Study of P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change and Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess

  • 'There is Still Time' - Queer Discomfort in I Saw the TV Glow

    Jubilee Walker Finnegan

    'There is Still Time' - Queer Discomfort in I Saw the TV Glow

  • Kimmerer, R. W. (2024). The Serviceberry. An Economy of Gifts and Abundance. London: Allen Lane. Review by Teun van Son

    Teun van Son

    Kimmerer, R. W. (2024). The Serviceberry. An Economy of Gifts and Abundance. London: Allen Lane. Review by Teun van Son

  • Schulman, S. (2012). Israel/Palestine and the Queer International. Duke University Press. Review by Femke Beutels 

    Femke Beutels (Ghent University)

    Schulman, S. (2012). Israel/Palestine and the Queer International. Duke University Press. Review by Femke Beutels 

  • Lewis, B., Ali, A. and Russell, J. (2025). Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health. New York: Routledge. Review by Lieve Carette and Liorah Hoek 

    Lieve Carette, Liorah Hoek

    Lewis, B., Ali, A. and Russell, J. (2025). Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health. New York: Routledge. Review by Lieve Carette and Liorah Hoek 

  • Hedva. J. (2025). How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom. New York: Hellman Grad Books. Review by Josefien Cornette

    Josefien Cornette

    Hedva. J. (2025). How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom. New York: Hellman Grad Books. Review by Josefien Cornette

  • Nishida, A. (2022). Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependence, and Desire. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Review by Kaat Kenis

    Kaat Kenis

    Nishida, A. (2022). Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependence, and Desire. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Review by Kaat Kenis

  • Bogaert, K. (2023). In het Spoor van Fanon: Orde, Wanorde, Dekolonisering. Berchem: Uitgeverij EPO. Review by Jemma Vercruysse

    Jemma Vercruysse

    Bogaert, K. (2023). In het Spoor van Fanon: Orde, Wanorde, Dekolonisering. Berchem: Uitgeverij EPO. Review by Jemma Vercruysse

  • Martínez, M-A. (2018). Storyworld Possible Selves. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Review by Jante Borremans

    Jante Borremans

    Martínez, M-A. (2018). Storyworld Possible Selves. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Review by Jante Borremans

  • Bruce, L. M. J. (2021). How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity. Durham: Duke University Press. Review by Iris Kater Mirsalari

    Iris Kater Mirsalari

    Bruce, L. M. J. (2021). How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity. Durham: Duke University Press. Review by Iris Kater Mirsalari

  • Smilges, J. L. (2022). Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Review by David Lombard

    David Lombard

    Smilges, J. L. (2022). Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Review by David Lombard

  • Khúc, M. (2024). Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. London: Duke University Press. Review by Caro Suringar

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    Khúc, M. (2024). Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. London: Duke University Press. Review by Caro Suringar

  • Walia, H. (2021). Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Chicago: Haymarket books. Review by Albina Fatahaj

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    Walia, H. (2021). Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Chicago: Haymarket books. Review by Albina Fatahaj

  • De-Centering Whiteness in Theorizing Care: Culturally-Safe Care and Affective Technologies of Medical Racism

    Sarah Munawar (Columbia College)

    De-Centering Whiteness in Theorizing Care: Culturally-Safe Care and Affective Technologies of Medical Racism

  • What Healing Erases: Illness, Identity, and the Violence of Normalcy

    Anna Claes

    What Healing Erases: Illness, Identity, and the Violence of Normalcy

  • Contextualizing Disability: Settler-Colonial Power and the Production of Impairment in Palestine

    Femke Beutels (Ghent University), Mirre Verhoeven (Ghent University)

    Contextualizing Disability: Settler-Colonial Power and the Production of Impairment in Palestine

  • Turning the Table: Rethinking Sexuality Education for 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled People

    Alan Santinele Martino (University of Calgary), Thomas Tri (University of Calgary)

    Turning the Table: Rethinking Sexuality Education for 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled People

  • Embodied Solidarity: Feminist Care and Vulnerability in Parisian Squats

    A. Tancrède Pagès (UGent)

    Embodied Solidarity: Feminist Care and Vulnerability in Parisian Squats

  • Title Page & Table of Contents

    Louise Benson James (Ghent University)

    Title Page & Table of Contents

  • ‘I Had the Feeling I Had the Rehearsal With You’. Autoethnographic Reflections on Preparing Applicants for their Asylum Interview Within LGBTIQ+ Organisations

    Liselot Casteleyn (Ghent University)

    ‘I Had the Feeling I Had the Rehearsal With You’. Autoethnographic Reflections on Preparing Applicants for their Asylum Interview Within LGBTIQ+ Organisations

  • Editorial - Paradoxes in the Far Right’s gender and sexuality politics: Nationalism, Islamophobia and multiple positionings on gender

    An Van Raemdonck, Katja Kahlina, Aleksandra Sygnowska (Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Editorial - Paradoxes in the Far Right’s gender and sexuality politics: Nationalism, Islamophobia and multiple positionings on gender

  • Resistant vulnerability: Voices of feminist dissent from the Panjabi minority in Italy

    Sara Ahimsa Bonfanti (University of Trento (ITA))

    Resistant vulnerability: Voices of feminist dissent from the Panjabi minority in Italy

  • The brotherhood of hate: Hyper-masculinity, same-sex desire and far-right identity in Brotherhood

    Paris Cameron-Gardos (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society)

    The brotherhood of hate: Hyper-masculinity, same-sex desire and far-right identity in Brotherhood

  • ‘Where are the equal rights?’ Far-right women challenging gender equality and human rights in Greece

    Marianthi Anastasiadou (Freiburg University of Education), Jasmine Samara

    ‘Where are the equal rights?’ Far-right women challenging gender equality and human rights in Greece

  • Women and nationalism in Poland: Defending the dignity of Polish women

    Aleksandra Sygnowska (Independent scholar)

    Women and nationalism in Poland: Defending the dignity of Polish women

  • Ageivism Roundtable

    Katrien De Graeve, Anja Meulenbelt, Ryan Backer, Sara De Vuyst (UGent), Katrien Jacobs (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Aagje Swinnen (Maastricht University)

    Ageivism Roundtable

  • Beyond burnout culture? Artistic imaginations of care (crisis) in Barbara Raes' Zon dag kind and Els Dietvorst's Field Guide

    Sarah De Mul

    Beyond burnout culture? Artistic imaginations of care (crisis) in Barbara Raes' Zon dag kind and Els Dietvorst's Field Guide

  • Home and belonging: African women in 'crisis' Greece

    Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi

    Home and belonging: African women in 'crisis' Greece

  • Sex and desire on the dancefloor: A queer post-structuralist approach on reclaiming erotic dances

    Nina Poels, Carine Plancke (UGent)

    Sex and desire on the dancefloor: A queer post-structuralist approach on reclaiming erotic dances

  • Trans persons on trans representations in popular media culture: A reception study

    Hanne Van Haelter (Ghent University), Frederik Dhaenens (Ghent University), Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University)

    Trans persons on trans representations in popular media culture: A reception study

  • Allies, access and (collective) action: Young refugee women’s navigation of gendered educational constraints in Greece

    Lucy Hunt (University of Oxford)

    Allies, access and (collective) action: Young refugee women’s navigation of gendered educational constraints in Greece

  • Negotiating two worlds: An exploration of Moroccan Belgian youths’ lived experience of gender identity

    Hanne Dewinter (Department of Social Work & Social Pedagogy, Ghent University), Hanne Dehertog (Arktos, Leuven), Lucia De Haene (Parenting and Special Education Research Unit, KU Leuven)

    Negotiating two worlds: An exploration of Moroccan Belgian youths’ lived experience of gender identity

  • Queer asylum seekers in Belgium: Navigating reception centers

    Anna Ropianyk (Ghent University), Serena D’Agostino (Department of Political Science and Brussels School of Governance (BSoG), Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

    Queer asylum seekers in Belgium: Navigating reception centers

  • Gendered aspects of distress migration: Taking note of Rohingya voices

    Vasileia Digidiki (FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University), Jacqueline Bhabha (FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University)

    Gendered aspects of distress migration: Taking note of Rohingya voices

  • Editorial: Studying diversity and gender in times of Corona

    Florian Vanlee (Ghent University), Mieke Vandenbroucke (Universiteit Antwerpen), Tina Goethals (Ghent University)

    Editorial: Studying diversity and gender in times of Corona

  • Language attitudes towards Serbian Sign Language and experiences with deaf education in Serbia

    Dragana Raicevic Bajic (Ghent University), Gordana Nikolic, Mihailo Gordic, Kimberley Mouvet (Ghent University), Mieke Van Herreweghe (Ghent University)

    Language attitudes towards Serbian Sign Language and experiences with deaf education in Serbia

  • Superheroines and superstereotypes? Queer postfeminism, intersectionality and female superheroes in Supergirl

    Maxine De Wulf Helskens (Ghent University), Frederik Dhaenens (Ghent University), Sarah Van Leuven (Ghent University)

    Superheroines and superstereotypes? Queer postfeminism, intersectionality and female superheroes in Supergirl

  • ‘The Great Replacement’: Reproduction and Population Policies of the Far Right, Taking the Identitarians as an Example

    Judith Goetz (Universität Wien)

    ‘The Great Replacement’: Reproduction and Population Policies of the Far Right, Taking the Identitarians as an Example

  • The visual digital self: A discourse theoretical analysis of young people’s negotiations on gender, reputation and sexual morality online

    Burcu Korkmazer (Ghent University), Sander De Ridder (Ghent University), Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University)

    The visual digital self: A discourse theoretical analysis of young people’s negotiations on gender, reputation and sexual morality online

  • The populist far-right and the intersection of antiimmigration and antifeminist agendas: the Portuguese case

    Rita Santos (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra), Sílvia Roque (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)

    The populist far-right and the intersection of antiimmigration and antifeminist agendas: the Portuguese case

  • Breaking the cycle: Solidarity with care-leaver mothers

    Jenny Krutzinna (a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:20:"University of Bergen";})

    Breaking the cycle: Solidarity with care-leaver mothers

  • Constructs and contradictions of mothering identities as experienced by new mothers in the postnatal period in a contemporary urban setting

    Mavis Machirori (a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:20:"Newcastle University";})

    Constructs and contradictions of mothering identities as experienced by new mothers in the postnatal period in a contemporary urban setting

  • Editorial - Parenthood: Norms and experiences

    Seppe Segers, Giulia Cavaliere

    Editorial - Parenthood: Norms and experiences

  • “My emotions on the backseat”. Heterosexually partnered men’s experiences of becoming fathers through surrogacy

    Christina Weis (a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:22:"De Montfort University";}), Wendy Norton

    “My emotions on the backseat”. Heterosexually partnered men’s experiences of becoming fathers through surrogacy

  • Parenthood and the concept of the biological tie

    Hane Maung (a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:24:"University of Manchester";})

    Parenthood and the concept of the biological tie

  • Unseen? A qualitative study on how mothers and fathers living with a visual impairment experience parenthood

    Jentel Van Havermaet (a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:1:" ";}), Elisabeth De Schauwer, Geert Van Hove

    Unseen? A qualitative study on how mothers and fathers living with a visual impairment experience parenthood

  • A visitor in your house? Letters about non/normative family lives from sisters becoming mothers

    Marieke Vandecasteele (a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:16:"Ghent University";}), Ted Oonk, Elisabeth De Schauwer, Geert Van Hove

    A visitor in your house? Letters about non/normative family lives from sisters becoming mothers

  • Integrating intersectionality into autonomy: Reflections on feminist bioethics and egg freezing

    Michiel De Proost (a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:5:"RHEA ";})

    Integrating intersectionality into autonomy: Reflections on feminist bioethics and egg freezing

  • Beyond Persecution: Exploring Alternative Refugee Narratives in Jenny Erpenbeck

    Jessy Carton

    Beyond Persecution: Exploring Alternative Refugee Narratives in Jenny Erpenbeck

  • ‘Deviant’ or the consequence of social evolution? Discourses of intentional ‘multiple parenthood practices’ in the Dutch and the Flemish press

    Nola Cammu

    ‘Deviant’ or the consequence of social evolution? Discourses of intentional ‘multiple parenthood practices’ in the Dutch and the Flemish press

  • LGBT+ televisibility in Flanders: The presence of sexual and gender diversity in Flemish television fiction (2001-2016)

    Florian Vanlee, Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel

    LGBT+ televisibility in Flanders: The presence of sexual and gender diversity in Flemish television fiction (2001-2016)

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1

Front Matter

Title Page and Table of Contents

Chloé Janssen

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Editorial

An Van Raemdonck, Louise Benson James and Chloé Janssen

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 1-3

Roundtable

Turning the Table: Rethinking Sexuality Education for 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled People

Alan Santinele Martino and Thomas Tri

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Contextualizing Disability: Settler-Colonial Power and the Production of Impairment in Palestine

Femke Beutels and Mirre Verhoeven

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 13-20

What Healing Erases: Illness, Identity, and the Violence of Normalcy

Anna Claes

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 21-26

De-Centering Whiteness in Theorizing Care: Culturally-Safe Care and Affective Technologies of Medical Racism

Sarah Munawar

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 27-35

Articles

Empowering Inclusion through Self-Advocacy: Harnessing Language to Transform Stigma into Strength for Individuals With Physical Disabilities

Cato Denissen

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The Queer Experience: A Phenomenological Approach to Life Trajectories from the Perspective of Diversity and Gender

Nestor David Polo-Rojas

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Exploring Postfeminist Humor as a Collective Form of Resistance to Anti-feminism in China: A Textual Analysis of Radical Feminist Discourse on Weibo

Qi Wu

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 69-83

Literary Resistance in Contemporary Dalit Feminist Fiction: A Study of P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change and Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess

Sharanya Devasya Ganesh

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 84-98

'There is Still Time' - Queer Discomfort in I Saw the TV Glow

Jubilee Walker Finnegan

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Walia, H. (2021). Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Chicago: Haymarket books. Review by Albina Fatahaj

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Khúc, M. (2024). Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. London: Duke University Press. Review by Caro Suringar

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2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 116-118

Smilges, J. L. (2022). Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Review by David Lombard

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2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 119-121

Bruce, L. M. J. (2021). How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity. Durham: Duke University Press. Review by Iris Kater Mirsalari

Iris Kater Mirsalari

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Martínez, M-A. (2018). Storyworld Possible Selves. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Review by Jante Borremans

Jante Borremans

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Bogaert, K. (2023). In het Spoor van Fanon: Orde, Wanorde, Dekolonisering. Berchem: Uitgeverij EPO. Review by Jemma Vercruysse

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Hedva. J. (2025). How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom. New York: Hellman Grad Books. Review by Josefien Cornette

Josefien Cornette

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 132-134

Nishida, A. (2022). Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependence, and Desire. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Review by Kaat Kenis

Kaat Kenis

2025-06-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 135-138

Lewis, B., Ali, A. and Russell, J. (2025). Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health. New York: Routledge. Review by Lieve Carette and Liorah Hoek 

Lieve Carette and Liorah Hoek

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Kimmerer, R. W. (2024). The Serviceberry. An Economy of Gifts and Abundance. London: Allen Lane. Review by Teun van Son

Teun van Son

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Schulman, S. (2012). Israel/Palestine and the Queer International. Duke University Press. Review by Femke Beutels 

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