No Estamos a la Intemperie: An Open Call

No estamos a la intemperie: An Open Call is the first open call issue in the 50-year lifespan of the academic journal WSQ. The issue will feature articles in both English and Spanish, with themes ranging from drag pedagogy to Black Feminisms and humor; from transnational feminisms in Eurasia to testimonies of trans men in Guatemala.

The issue begins with the image of a warren to conceptualize the house of feminisms. The guest coeditors take this concept from Argentine feminist thinker Verónica Gago, who recovers it in her reading of Carolina Meloni’s Feminismos transfronterizos (2022). The warren or house of feminisms seeks to ＂shelter different problems, theoretical lines, rebellious genealogies and consistent deviations from feminist thought.＂

Ángeles Donoso Macaya is a feminist immigrant educator, scholar, and writer from Santiago, Chile. She is professor of Latin American visual studies in the PhD program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center, and professor of Spanish at BMCC/CUNY. She is the author of La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales Pesados, 2021) / The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chile’s Dictatorship (University of Florida Press, 2020), of the autobiographical essay Lanallwe (Tusquets, 2023); and coauthor, with photographer Paz Errázuriz, of archivo imperfecto/imperfect archive (Metales Pesados, 2023). She is based in New York City, New York.

Kendra Sullivan is a poet, a public artist, and an activist scholar. She is director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she led the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from 2014-2024. Sullivan is a codirector of the NYC Climate Justice Hub, the publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and a co-editorial director of Women’s Studies Quarterly. Her books include Zero Point Dream Poems (Doublecross Press) and Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse). She is based in New York City, New York.