Kristin Prins, Kristin Ravel, and Rachael Sullivan are seeking chapters for an edited collection tentatively titled /Feminist Design Rhetorics: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies for Building Equity and Collective Justice/. They asking authors to explore questions such as: What are the roles of design, technologies, and rhetoric in furthering intersectional feminist activism? What impacts do intersectional approaches to design bring to our rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy? And how might we use a feminist design lens to make rhetorical choices that center accountability, equity, and social justice?
Proposals (500-750 words with a 50-word bio) are due by March 28, 2022.Some possibilities include, but are by no means limited to:
1) Intersections of feminist design and critical race, decolonial, queer, and disability theories, or other social justice-related theories, in rhetoric and composition
2) Analyzing, understanding, historicizing, complicating, and/or producing feminist, accessible, queer, antiracist, indegenous, and/or non-western design
3) Feminist analysis of how digital design may obstruct or distract attention from inequality, embodiment, labor, and the materiality of technologies
4) Possible roles of design in the global climate crisis (e.g., how feminist designers and rhetoricians might help to care for the planet or environmental refugees)
5) How design facilitates or shapes social justice movements (e.g., hashtag activism, multimodal rhetorics of protest, activist art)
6) The design of digital hate and online aggression (e.g., online harassment and misogyny, extremist rhetorics and digital circulation, the spread of racism, antisemitism, and other forms of hate speech online)
7) How digital design might shape, support, or undermine algorithmic tracking, content moderation, platform surveillance (particularly in the context of teaching or within communities facing inequality and oppression)
We particularly encourage projects that reflect pedagogical engagement (for example, sharing pedagogical applications, course designs, assignments, activities, assessment technologies, etc.). While we expect that some chapters in this collection will focus on digital technologies, we also acknowledge that no social relation or practice is ever purely digital. Chapters may consider both digital and/or analog spaces, treating the online and offline as a spectrum rather than a strict binary. We also welcome collaborative pieces written with students—both undergraduate and graduate—as well as with other community members.
Key dates: Proposals due: March 28, 2022, Invitations to submit full chapter drafts: April 28, 2022, Chapter drafts due: August 1, 2022, Feedback given to chapter authors: September/October 2022. While future deadlines may change, they currently plan to invite complete chapter drafts (6000-8000 words, including references) by April 28, 2022, which will tentatively be due on August 1, 2022, and to send feedback to authors by September 15, 2022.
