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Feminist Theory Workshop 2026

March 20, 2026 / Durham, NC

We're excited to join you for the 2026 Feminist Theory Workshop!

We are thrilled to participate in this year's Feminist Theory Workshop at Duke University. Editors Gisela Fosado, Courtney Berger, and Elizabeth Ault are attending, as well as assistant editors Ryan Kendall and Kate Mullen. Visit our table in the Penn Pavilion to browse new and familiar titles in feminist theory, queer theory, gender and women's studies, and trans studies. Or, check out our entire list in Feminism and Gender Studies. Through May 1, 2026, use code FTW26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

To connect with any of our editors, view their specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our online submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black.
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

Kathi Weeks

Book

Cover of Insurgent Visions features a bold, abstract illustration in red, pink, black, and teal tones. Stylized human faces and a human hand overlap with patterned abstract shapes in a collage-like composition.
Insurgent Visions

Feminism, Justice, Solidarity

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Book

Cover of Sex Isn't Real features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background.
Sex Isn′t Real

The Invention of an Incoherent Binary

Beans Velocci

Book

Cover of The New Politics of Online Feminism is dark purple. The title text is in a modern, geometric serif typeface in gradient shades ranging from light purple to orange. The author's name is below in green, in a smaller font.
The New Politics of Online Feminism

Akane Kanai

Book

Cover of Close Writing is black with a black and white photograph of a couch strewn with folded papers in the upper right. A shadow of a person is centered against the light from a window.
Close Writing

Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces

Alice Butler

Book

How We Write Now cover image
How We Write Now

Living with Black Feminist Theory

Jennifer C. Nash

Book

Freeing Black Girls cover image
Freeing Black Girls

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

Book

Cover of Foremother Love features A Vivid Imagination, a hand-stitched silk collage by Billie Zangewa. The piece depicts the artist herself, a Black woman, sitting in a lounge chair sunbathing in her garden.
Foremother Love

Phillis Wheatley and Black Feminist Criticism

Dana Murphy

Book

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an other

a black feminist consideration of animal life

Sharon Patricia Holland

Book

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Unfurl

Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming

Eli Clare

Book

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The Dream of a Common Movement

Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid

Urvashi Vaid

Book

Cover of Care at the End of the World is bright yellow. It features painting by Tommi Parrish of a human figure in orange, wearing a yellow hard hat, holding on to a burst pipe which spills water all over.
Care at the End of the World

Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

Kim, Jina B.

Book

Cover of Racial Care features an illustration of a dark starry sky background featuring a large, glowing pink rectangular frame in the center.
Racial Care

On Asian American Suffering and Survival

James McMaster

Book

On the right side of the cover Spoiled, a dramatic photograph shows a woman with her head tilted back. A long stream of honey pours into the woman's open mouth from above. Intense lighting highlights the woman's features.
Spoiled

Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair

Summer Kim Lee

Book

Cover of The Violence of Protection features a textured print of lush grass with two fences extending from the left and right. There is a small orange chair in front of each fence.
The Violence of Protection

Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

Lee Ann S. Wang

Book

Cover of Torn is black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye.
Torn

Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence

Anna M. Moncada Storti

Book

Cover of dear elia has a light blue background, with a photograph in the center of the page. The photograph depicts a young girl in a floral dress and pink shoes. She holds a stick and walks down an empty path.
dear elia

Letters from the Asian American Abyss

Mimi Khúc

Book

Co-Winner of the 2026 Award for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies, AAAS

Cover of Indigenomicon features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in
Indigenomicon

American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd

Book

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Speculative Relations

Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Joseph M. Pierce

Book

Cover of Indigenous Archives features a photograph of two young Mayan women wearing traditional clothing sitting on steps.
Indigenous Archives

The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production

Floridalma Boj Lopez

Book

Cover of Transatlantic Disbelonging features collage-style illustrations of fragmented, grayscale pencil sketches of multiple women's faces, stacked above a shopping cart bookended by two headless figures.
Transatlantic Disbelonging

Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art

Bimbola Akinbola

Book

Cover of The Elsewhere Is Black features a sculpture by Curtis Cuffie. The sculpture is tall and eclectic. It is made of colorful, found materials stacked and draped over a pole in an outdoor urban setting under a cloudy sky.
The Elsewhere Is Black

Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Marisa Solomon

Book

Cover of Policing Black Lives features a grainy, black-and-white image of a Black individual facing a wall. The person's posture and the ruler markings adjacent to the figure suggest that the image is a mugshot.
Policing Black Lives

State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Robyn Maynard

Book

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness cover image
The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

Sounds Like Us

Jemma DeCristo

Book

Cover of The Disturbing Profane features an abstract pattern of black circles against a white background. Roughly half of the circles have a solid fill, leaving little of the white background visible. The other circles have a brushstroke-like texture
The Disturbing Profane

Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

Joseph R. Winters

Book

Cover of Breaking the World features the Pillars of Creation, a star forming region in the galaxy, in orange and warm hues against a brilliant star-filled sky.
Breaking the World

Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Justin L. Mann

Book

Becoming Trustworthy White Allies cover image
Becoming Trustworthy White Allies

Melanie S. Morrison

Book

The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Book

Cover of Star Charting by Bess Matassa. Cover is sky blue. The main title is in the middle in the same script (a star replaces the dot in the i in "Charting") and the author's signature is at the bottom.
Star Charting

Bess Matassa

Book

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The Affect Theory Reader 2

Worldings, Tensions, Futures

Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell, editors

Book

Cover of My Father, the Messiah features a warm, reddish-orange overlay on a blurred photograph of a child reaching down to touch a man lying on the ground. The title is in a large white serif font across the center.
My Father, the Messiah

A Memoir

Gil Z. Hochberg

Book

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These Survivals

Autobiography of an Extinction

Lynne Huffer

Book

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Complaint!

Sara Ahmed

Book

Cover of On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant. Bright pink cover features a painted picture of the face of a black cat with one green eye open.
On the Inconvenience of Other People

Lauren Berlant

Book

The cover is a a blue and coral pink duotone of a woman wearing a leotard that depicts a mushroom cloud. She is posing with her hands up and her mouth open in joy. The blue and pink are inverted to create circles around her.
Atomic Bombshells

How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Isabelle Held

Book

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Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, editors

Book

Cover of Sweatshop Capital features a pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs.
Sweatshop Capital

Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century

Beth Robinson

Book

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Humanity′s Ruins

Ethics, Feminism, and Genocidal Humanitarianism

Danielle Bouchard

Book

Cover of The Goddess in the Mirror depicts a woman applying makeup to another woman in front of a large round mirror. The scene captures both the women directly and their reflections.
The Goddess in the Mirror

An Anthropology of Beauty

Tulasi Srinivas

Book

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Mavericks of Style

The Seventies in Color

Uri McMillan

Book

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My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio

Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024

Nayland Blake

Book

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As If!

Queer Criticism Across Difference

Chase Gregory

Book

Cover of When Monsters Speak is black with white lettering. There is a photo of a young Stryker on the book. She has long dark hair, is wearing sunglasses, a leather jacket, ripped jeans, and a t-shirt with the transgender symbol visible.
When Monsters Speak

A Susan Stryker Reader

Susan Stryker

Book

Winner of the 2025 Lambda Award LGBTQ+ Studies

Body Problems cover image
Body Problems

What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging

M. Wolff

Book

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Abolitionist Intimacies

Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State

Eithne Luibhéid

Book

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Queer Emergent

Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru

Justin Perez

Book

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Queer Traffic

Sex, Panic, Free Trade

Jennifer Tyburczy

Book

Cover of Gay Print Culture features an image of a handsome young man with dark hair wearing a blue tank top and a beige hat with its strap around his neck. The background includes green foliage and colorful flowers.
Gay Print Culture

A Transnational History of North America

Juan Carlos Mezo González

Book

Unruly Comparison cover image
Unruly Comparison

Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

Alvin K. Wong

Book

How We Make Each Other cover image
How We Make Each Other

Trans Life at the Edge of the University

Perry Zurn

Book

Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies cover with veiled figure reaching toward light in blue green panel on orange background
Queer Apocalypse

Journal Issue

Cover of Differences journal issue with yellow background, horizontal gray band, title Lyric beyond Containment, and contributor names listed.
Lyric Beyond Containment

Journal Issue

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Camera Obscura

Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lalitha Gopalan, Lynne Joyrich, Homay King, Bliss Cua Lim, Constance Penley, Tess Takahashi, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis, editors

Journal

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QTR

A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion

Joseph A Marchal and Melissa M. Wilcox, editors

Journal

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Meridians

feminism, race, transnationalism

Ginetta E. B. Candelario, editor

Journal

TSQ cover with bull-like sculpture and text on trans studies in nineteenth century Americas
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Dylan McCarthy Blackston, micha cardenás, Ciara Cremin, PJ DiPietro, Cole Rizki, and Jeanne Vaccaro, editors

Journal

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Soha Bayoumi, editor

Journal