• Editorial

    An Van Raemdonck, Louise Benson James, Chloé Janssen

    Editorial

  • Title Page and Table of Contents

    Chloé Janssen

    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

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

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

    Nestor David Polo-Rojas

    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

    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

  • 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

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

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

    Femke Beutels

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

  • 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

  • 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 

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Caro Suringar

    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

    Albina Fetahaj

    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

    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, Mirre Verhoeven

    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, Thomas Tri

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

  • Exploring the Frontiers of Solidarity and Intimacy in Refugee “Solidarity” Movements in France

    Jane Freedman, Glenda Santana de Andrade

    Exploring the Frontiers of Solidarity and Intimacy in Refugee “Solidarity” Movements in France

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

    Liselot Casteleyn

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

  • 'We Don’t Live in the Future. We Live in the Now'. How Time Intersects with (UN)realistically Partnering with and for Refugees in Lebanon

    Jasmin Lilian Diab, Maybritt Jill Alpes

    'We Don’t Live in the Future. We Live in the Now'. How Time Intersects with (UN)realistically Partnering with and for Refugees in Lebanon

  • 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

    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

    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

    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, 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

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

  • Ageivism Roundtable

    Katrien De Graeve, Anja Meulenbelt, Ryan Backer, Sara De Vuyst, Katrien Jacobs, Aagje Swinnen

    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

    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, Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel

    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

    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, Hanne Dehertog, Lucia De Haene

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

  • Queer asylum seekers in Belgium: Navigating reception centers

    Anna Ropianyk, Serena D’Agostino

    Queer asylum seekers in Belgium: Navigating reception centers

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

    Vasileia Digidiki, Jacqueline Bhabha

    Gendered aspects of distress migration: Taking note of Rohingya voices

  • Editorial: Studying diversity and gender in times of Corona

    Florian Vanlee, Mieke Vandenbroucke, Tina Goethals

    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, Gordana Nikolic, Mihailo Gordic, Kimberley Mouvet, Mieke Van Herreweghe

    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, Frederik Dhaenens, Sarah Van Leuven

    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

    ‘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, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel

    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, Sílvia Roque

    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

    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

    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, 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

    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, 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, 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

    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

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 0

Editorial

  • An Van Raemdonck
  • Louise Benson James
  • Chloé Janssen

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
  • Thomas Tri

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 4-12

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

  • Femke Beutels
  • Mirre Verhoeven

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

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

  • Anna Claes

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

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

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 36-50

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

  • Nestor David Polo-Rojas

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 51-68

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

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

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

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 99-112

What are you reading?

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

  • Albina Fetahaj

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 113-115

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

  • Caro Suringar

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

  • David Lombard

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

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 122-124

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

  • Jante Borremans

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 125-127

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

  • Jemma Vercruysse

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 128-131

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

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

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
  • Liorah Hoek

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 139-141

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

  • Teun van Son

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 142-145

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

  • Femke Beutels

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • General Issue 12.1 • 146-148

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