Signs

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The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread	28
Mountains of Memories: “Visibilizing” Solidarity and Multivocality in Central American Women’sEncuentros	27
Ask a Feminist: Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy	24
A Note from the Editor	14
From Roadblocks to TransFeminist Fury: Creating Power, Decolonizing Territories, and Reproducing Life in Argentina	14
:Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness	13
Front Matter	13
Espanta Cigüeñas: Race and Abortion in the US-Mexico Borderlands	12
“Be Soft like Water, Little Woman”: Cultivating Postfeminism in Postsocialist China	12
Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’sLiberating Masturbation	12
A Note from the Editor	11
“To Feel Their Warmth, Sisterhood, and Closeness”: Australian Feminist Entanglements with Chinese and Vietnamese Communism, 1969–1979	10
:The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality	10
A Note from the Editor	9
A “Technical Approach”? An Ethnographic Exploration of Menstrual Regulation as Pregnancy Termination in Bangladesh	9
About the Contributors	7
Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment	6
:Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction	6
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse	6
:Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970	6
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm	6
Popular Financial Feminisms: Mapping New Mergers of Feminism and Capitalism	6
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times:Mrs. America’s Cool Feminism and Antifeminist Celebrity	6
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Solving for X: Gender Markers, the Law, and the Administrative State	5

Acuerpar: The Decolonial Feminist Call for Embodied Solidarity	5
“We Go Online to Call Them to the Street”: Multidirectional Flows in Hybrid Digital Feminism	5
Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era	5
Perverted Care in the State of Exception: A Feminist Analysis	5
About the Contributors	4
Should Feminists Be Individualists? A Puzzle from Gender and Development Practice	4
Blackness and Lesbian Studies: A Roundtable Discussion	4
“Tone Down a Bit”: Multi-Scalar Struggles among Feminist Activists in Post-2010 Kenya	4
Reductive: Andrea Dworkin’s Style as Thought	4
A Note from the Editor	4
Theorizing Contemporary Anti-Gender Politics: Transnational Resistance, Solidarities, and Futures; An Introduction	4
The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage Migration and Neoliberal Refashioning of Care in South Korea	4
Tactical Everydayness in Taiwanese Queer Discourse: A Personal Turn in Small Talk	4
Grossed Out: The Carceral Logics of Disgust and the Demands of #MeToo	3
Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management	3
:Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism	3
Seeing the Body-Territory: Nature, Technology, and Accumulation in Latin American Feminisms	3
: Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel	3
A Note from the Editor	3
The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?	3
About the Contributors	3
Reflections on Anti-Gender Politics and Resistance in the Gulf	3
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa	3
:Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South	2
What Do We Learn About Borders If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	2
About the Contributors	2
Malala Yousafzai on the Front Lines: Exploring Contemporary Issues, Rights, and Resilience of Pashtun Women Under Patriarchy and Taliban Influence	2
:Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam	2
Challenging the Antipolitics of Regimes of Care: Young African Men in Italy Resist Precarious Futures	2
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Feminist Histories of (Post)Socialism	2
The Escalation of Essentialist Feminism in Times of the Ultra-Right in Brazil	2
:In the Company of Radical Women Writers	2
Lubricating Violence with Pleasure in Mexico City	2
Toward Black Lesbian Study	2
: Becoming a Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence	1
Butler Traveling East: On Practices of Reading and Translating	1
Right-Wing Times: Fascism, Left/Right Convergences, and the Relationship of “Gender-Critical” to Anti-Gender	1
The Devil’s in Decline: Western Anti-Gender Politics and the Evolution of Queerphobia in Lebanon	1
“My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice”: Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma	1
“It Was Mythic”: Starflower Natural Foods and Lesbian Collective Space	1
A Note from the Editor	1
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret	1
Visceral Acts: Gestationality as Feminist Figuration	1
“Our Friendship Is Our Politics”: Feminist Intimacies and the Everyday in Southern India	1
Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary: Inequality, Mutuality, and the Politics of Feelings in Care-Work	1
Cover	1
:Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China	1
Book Review	1
The Lesbian-Identified Lesbian: Lesbian Feminisms for a Post-Binary Future	1

Trump’s Anti-Trans, Anti-Gender Executive Orders: A Conversation with Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson	1
On Feminicide and Empire: Law and the Killing of Women in British Colonial India	1
Ask a Feminist: Online Abuse and US Politics, a Conversation with Moya Bailey, Nina Jankowicz, and Sarah Sobieraj	1
Mama’s Maybe? Hierarchies of Migrant Kin-Making from Lebanon to Sudan	1
Double-Edged Care: Toward a Politics of Care Justice	1
Cover	1
Feminist Fertility Awareness? Sexual and Reproductive Knowledge in a Post-Roe World	1
About the Contributors	1
Rainbows and Mud: Experiments in LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Care	1
What Do We Learn About Reproductive Justice If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	1
Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty	1
Thanks to Reviewers	0
Front Matter	0
Women/Lesbian/Prison/Trans? Categories of Mobilization in the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS	0
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Ask a Feminist: Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics; A Conversation with Natali Valdez, Sarah S. Richardson, and Rene Almeling	0
Repression Present at All Times: Lesbians, the Alternative Press, and Political Activism During the Brazilian Military Dictatorship	0
Front Matter	0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
About the Contributors	0
Plant Sex: A Cultural Analysis of the Gendering of Plant Reproduction Processes	0
The Logic of Misogyny in Sport	0
Settler Colonialism in Black and White: Roberta Sykes, Germaine Greer, and the Different Embodied Experiences of Womanhood, Rape, and Sovereignty	0
“How Not to Get Killed”: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers	0
:The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health	0
Kawaii Sweets and Boba Liberalism: Desire and Disgust for Asian American Girl Culture	0
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“We Cannot Live Without Our Lives”: Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 1979	0
Front Matter	0
What Do We Learn About Protecting Trans/Queer Youth If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	0
Imagining Fetal Citizens in Brazil: On the Transnational Circulation of Reproductive Technologies and the “Statute of the Unborn”	0
What Do We Learn About AI If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	0
Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s	0
The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today	0
Generating Intimacy: Rage, Female Friendship, and the Heteropatriarchal Household on TV after #MeToo	0
Gender and Political Economy: Revisiting Distributive Analysis	0
:Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity	0
:The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism	0
Reproductive Subjects and Shifting Global Health Policy Discourses	0
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics	0
Front Matter	0
Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt	0
:Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence	0
Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Homecare	0
The New Servant Problem: Paid Domestic Work, Race, and the Gendered Division of Labor	0
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Front Matter	0
“More of Us beyond This Room”: Feminist (Hi)stories and Solidarity in The Future of Another Timeline	0
:Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg	0
Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem	0
Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan	0
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs	0
Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn	0
The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color	0
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model	0
Investment Feminism and Women’s Health	0
Feminism, Gender, and Transnational Solidarity: A View from Pakistan	0
About the Contributors	0
A Note from the Editor	0
:Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans	0
“This Is a Work for the Mothers”: Strategic Maternalism against the Far Right	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Cover	0
Front Matter	0
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession	0
Marrying to Labor, Laboring to Marry: Gender and the Relational Patterns of Migration from Vietnam	0
Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction	0
“Hang the Rapists Immediately”: Rape Vigilantism, State Violence, and Impunity in Contemporary India	0
:Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Lesbian Lineages and Lessons	0
About the Contributors	0
A Long Story About “A Short Story About a Penis”: Lesbian Histories, Queer Methods in Sarah Schulman’s Early Work	0
:Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China	0
:Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry	0
:In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America	0
Thanks to Reviewers	0
In Defense of Circular Time: Cycles of Feminist Activism in Argentina and Brazil	0
:After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It	0
: Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars	0

A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006–2018	0
Loving the Self, Imagining Otherwise: A Case for Self-Love and Its Speculative Possibilities	0
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa	0
The Right Revives Ophelia: Moms for Liberty, Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria, and the Cultural Politics of Adolescence	0
Chinese Racialization and Technologies of Mothering: Continuities in Straight and Queer Reproduction in Singapore	0
Subversive Epidemiology in Abortion Care: Reproductive Governance from the Global to the Local in Argentina and Senegal	0
The Labor of the Sabines: Why We Need Art to Theorize Sexual Violence	0
:A Short History of Trans Misogyny	0
A Social Reproduction Theory of Gender Violence	0
:Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity	0
“You Are Not Alone”: Feminist Memorialization and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt	0
Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination	0
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Thanks to Reviewers	0
“I Am Writing You in Reference to Myself”: White Wellness, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Self-Care	0
About the Contributors	0
:Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941	0
About the Contributors	0
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project	0
“Sisters Together”: Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival	0
The Survivor Imperative: Sexual Violence, Victimhood, and Neoliberalism	0
Feminist Businesses as “Safer Economic Spaces”	0
“SUBJECT’s Wife”: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance	0
Feminism after the Wrecking Ball: Doubling Down on Intersectional Political Commitment	0
Thanks to Reviewers	0
:Birthing Black Mothers	0
About the Contributors	0
Donald Trump, the Resistance, and the Queering of Democracy	0
“The Female Condition”: (Re)thinking Marriage, Prostitution, and Feminist Theories of Abolition	0
The Maternal Guardians of the Nation: Motherhood as a Site for “Anti-Gender” Organizing in Sri Lanka	0
Reclaiming Autonomy: The Changing Landscape of Mexican Abortion Activism	0
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Backlash at Close Quarters: Rethinking Feminist Politics from South Asia	0
The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence	0
About the Contributors	0
Veiling and Unveiling: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Travels in Iran and Afghanistan	0
Exposing the Gender Identity Industry: Anti-Gender and the Paranoid Critique of Trans Medicine	0
Femi(ni)cide: A Cartography	0
Crisis	0
Healing as a Feminist Praxis: Combatting Gender Violence through Art and Protest in the Americas	0
Front Matter	0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
Front Matter	0
A Note from the Editor	0
About the Contributors	0
Cover	0
:Shadow of My Shadow	0
Front Matter	0
Reconceptualizing the Real in the Struggle for Gender: From Gold Standard to Fragile Accomplishment	0
Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work	0
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Rape of the Earth: Ana Mendieta’s Defense of a Metaphor	0
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland	0
13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto	0
Collectivity and Feminist History: Situating Luce Irigaray	0
Black Feminist Aesthetics of Injection: Reframing Transition in Clarissa Sligh’s Wrongly Bodied	0
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“We Stayed Up All Night Rapping”: Toward a History of Feminist Consciousness-Raising, 1964–1986	0
Front Matter	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life	0
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret	0
Speaking Truth to Power in a Digital Age: #MeToo as Parrhesia	0
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Carceral Diagonalism: The Punitive Safety Politics Linking Left and Right Transnational Anti-Gender Mobilizations	0
Victory or Defeat? The Dilemma of Palliative Schooling in an Era of Racial Equity	0
Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection	0
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Whithering	0
Naked Protests: The Language of Women’s Bodies at the End of Their Tether	0
About the Contributors	0
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979–2019	0
:Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer	0
:Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology	0
Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru	0
Front Matter	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Defensive Spectatorship, or, Watching as a Butch/Lesbian	0
From Cyborg Irony to Oriental Fantasy: The Racial Limits of Cyborg Feminisms in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell	0
Introduction: Complexities of Care and Caring	0
About the Contributors	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Antigenderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany	0
Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking	0
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Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care	0
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Odd Women, New Women, and the Problem of Erotic Indifference in Late-Victorian Feminism	0
:Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde	0
Framing a Feminist Abortion	0
Home Renovation as National Modernization: Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Aspirations in South African Township Tourism	0
: Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times	0
Lesbian Police, Carceral Equality, and the Ambivalence of Confrontation	0