Feminist Commemoration

Academic feminism has moved to a period of commemoration, retrospection, and celebration. Feminist commemoration is often fraught, filled with celebrations of and anxieties about all that the institutionalization of academic feminism has achieved. If the stories we tell often center on our field's precarity, the existence and durability of a slew of feminist journals is evidence of the labor of generations of feminist scholars. Those scholars worked to ensure that the precarity that marked earlier feminist publishing projects was replaced by the capacity of feminist publications to endure, to live on. Here, Nash shares her interest in feminist commemoration and how we anxiously mark the power we have accrued and the power that we have desired.