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Call for Papers
Southern Cultures: The Queer South
Guest Editors: Hooper Schultz (UNC-Chapel Hill) and
Jaime Harker (University of Mississippi)
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, The Queer South, to be published Spring 2025. We will accept submissions for this issue through June 10, 2024, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit.
Both within and outside the South, people have told the story of the queer South—from cultural and
South African women’s political activism against apartheid is the focus of this special edition of the South African Historical Journal. This edition is timely as it will commemorate the 70th anniversaries of significant moments and social movements in South African women’s history, including the founding of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) in 1954, the founding of the Black Sash of South Africa in 1955, and the Women’s March on Pretoria in 1956.
On March 27th from 6-8 pm EST, join trans feminine social historian Chris Aino Pihlak for a talk based on her award-winning thesis “A Movable Closet: Constructions of Femininity Among Twentieth Century Transfeminine Periodical Communities.” From 1960 onward, an ecosystem of trans feminine communities thrived under the surface of trans misogynistic societies in the Global North. Though they often physically came together, members also published a robust number of subcultural magazines that were pre-Internet virtual sites of community.