MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
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MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
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Focus Issue Fifteen: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture
Our authors demonstrate that women's self-portraiture in media is always personal, performative, and intensely political.
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*Happy dance* It's new issue day!! Welcome to MAI Issue 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, a packed issue highlighting the personal, performative, and intensely political forms of women’s self-portraiture in visual media. #feminism #visualarts www.maifeminism.com/issues/focus...
Marissa Willcox explores intersectionality in the feminist Instagram art of Hana Shafi and Theo Grimes in our latest issue MAI 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/making-the-f... #art #feminism #academicsky
Making the Feminist Intersectional Self Through Erotic Instagram Art
Analysing two artists, Hana Shafi and Theo Grimes, Willcox explores the role of intersectionality in feminist art on Instagram.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Marissa Willcox explores intersectionality in the feminist Instagram art of Hana Shafi and Theo Grimes in our latest issue MAI 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/making-the-f... #art #feminism #academicsky
Maïwenn is perhaps one of the most intriguing and controversial women directors in contemporary French cinema. Zelal Berfin Tataroglu explores Maïwenn's authorship in our new issue MAI 15 www.maifeminism.com/maiwenn-frag... #feminism #film #academicsky
Maïwenn's Fragmented Self: Unveiling the Author
Addressing the criticism of Maïwenn and her work, Tataroglu conducts a feminist and post-colonial examination of her directorial output.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Maïwenn is perhaps one of the most intriguing and controversial women directors in contemporary French cinema. Zelal Berfin Tataroglu explores Maïwenn's authorship in our new issue MAI 15 www.maifeminism.com/maiwenn-frag... #feminism #film #academicsky
It's almost the weekend...Enjoy this conversation between Elizabeth Orcutt [guest editor of our current issue MAI15] and performance artist Bobby Baker www.maifeminism.com/domestic-sci... #feminism #performance #art #academicsky
Domestic Scientist & Artist: Bobby Baker’s Portrayals of Feminist Selfhood
The iconic Bobby Baker discusses her radical journey, beginning from a challenging position in the male-dominated art landscape in the UK.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's almost the weekend...Enjoy this conversation between Elizabeth Orcutt [guest editor of our current issue MAI15] and performance artist Bobby Baker www.maifeminism.com/domestic-sci... #feminism #performance #art #academicsky
In the current issue of MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, Oriana Fox explores two works of performance art by Nando Messias and Cassils which share activist/aesthetic responses to hate crimes
www.maifeminism.com/no-innocent-... #feminism #performance #academicsky
www.maifeminism.com/no-innocent-... #feminism #performance #academicsky
No Innocent Bystanders: Nando Messias & Cassils Confront Hate Crimes
Comparing two performance artists, Fox reflects on the complex dynamic of resistance vs. vulnerability in the face of hate crimes.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In the current issue of MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, Oriana Fox explores two works of performance art by Nando Messias and Cassils which share activist/aesthetic responses to hate crimes
www.maifeminism.com/no-innocent-... #feminism #performance #academicsky
www.maifeminism.com/no-innocent-... #feminism #performance #academicsky
Keni Li explores the 3D sculptures, AR/VR portraits, and videos of British Australian sculptor and digital artist Sophie Kahn in our new issue MAI 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/death-and-re... #feminism #academicsky #fineart #digital #art
Death and Rebirth: 3D Printed Women Portraits by Sophie Kahn
Li examines how Sophie Kahn's use of transformative materials and glitch aesthetics reshapes contemporary women's self-portraiture.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Keni Li explores the 3D sculptures, AR/VR portraits, and videos of British Australian sculptor and digital artist Sophie Kahn in our new issue MAI 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture www.maifeminism.com/death-and-re... #feminism #academicsky #fineart #digital #art
Kheyzaran Esmaeilzade explores the performative images that women created and in which they presented themselves during the Jina (‘Woman, Life, Freedom’) uprising in Iran. www.maifeminism.com/self-portrai... #feminism #academicsky #selfportrait #performativity
Self-portrait as Collective Art Praxis: The Jina Uprising in Iran
Esmaeilzade analyses the self-expressive art of the Jina uprising as a tool for protesting the systemic oppression of Iranian women.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Kheyzaran Esmaeilzade explores the performative images that women created and in which they presented themselves during the Jina (‘Woman, Life, Freedom’) uprising in Iran. www.maifeminism.com/self-portrai... #feminism #academicsky #selfportrait #performativity
Start your week as you mean to go on, with an article a day from our new issue MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture.
Oriana Fox interviews performance artist Krishna Istha on the M:otherhood Project (2023-present) www.maifeminism.com/a-labour-of-... #feminism #performance
Oriana Fox interviews performance artist Krishna Istha on the M:otherhood Project (2023-present) www.maifeminism.com/a-labour-of-... #feminism #performance
A Labour of Love: Krishna Istha on M:otherhood Project
Having completed First Trimester, his first film in a planned trilogy, Istha meets Oriana Fox to discuss trans pregnancy and parenthood.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Start your week as you mean to go on, with an article a day from our new issue MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture.
Oriana Fox interviews performance artist Krishna Istha on the M:otherhood Project (2023-present) www.maifeminism.com/a-labour-of-... #feminism #performance
Oriana Fox interviews performance artist Krishna Istha on the M:otherhood Project (2023-present) www.maifeminism.com/a-labour-of-... #feminism #performance
In our new issue MAI 15, Assunta Ruocco takes us on an absorbing exploration of artist Alison Lloyd (1957-2024) focusing on her use of Instagram to revive her archive of early photographs from the 1970s & 1980s. www.maifeminism.com/insertingher... #feminism #selfportrait #photograhpy #academicsky
#insertingherselfinarthistory: Alison Lloyd’s Feminist Auto-Citation & Social Media
Examining Lloyd's reframing of her photographs in the new context of social media, Ruocco discusses her practice as feminist auto-citation.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In our new issue MAI 15, Assunta Ruocco takes us on an absorbing exploration of artist Alison Lloyd (1957-2024) focusing on her use of Instagram to revive her archive of early photographs from the 1970s & 1980s. www.maifeminism.com/insertingher... #feminism #selfportrait #photograhpy #academicsky
Amber Moore uses feminist theory, crip theory and witnessing to explore feminist self portraiture in the TV show Sex Education. www.maifeminism.com/sexual-traum... Just one of the insightful articles in our new issue MAI 15. #feminism #tv #academicsky
Sexual Trauma & Feminist Self-Portraiture in Sex Education
Moore argues that Sex Education is a young adult text revealing the power of feminist self-portraiture to disrupt ableism and rape culture.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Amber Moore uses feminist theory, crip theory and witnessing to explore feminist self portraiture in the TV show Sex Education. www.maifeminism.com/sexual-traum... Just one of the insightful articles in our new issue MAI 15. #feminism #tv #academicsky
Next up: www.maifeminism.com/disorderly-b... Federica Cavazzuti explores Japanese women’s photography arguing that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement. #feminism #photography #academicsky
Disorderly Bodies: Self-portraiture as Emancipation for Japanese Women
Exploring Japanese women's photography, Cavazzuti argues that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Next up: www.maifeminism.com/disorderly-b... Federica Cavazzuti explores Japanese women’s photography arguing that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement. #feminism #photography #academicsky
Let's dive in...over this week we'll be sharing articles from our new Issue 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture. What better place to begin than the introduction by guest editors Elizabeth Orcutt and Dawn Woolley. www.maifeminism.com/intersection... #feminism #portrait #academicsky
Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self–portraiture
Introducing the issue, Orcutt and Woolley highlight that feminist self-representation is an inquiry into evolving intersectional experiences.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Let's dive in...over this week we'll be sharing articles from our new Issue 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture. What better place to begin than the introduction by guest editors Elizabeth Orcutt and Dawn Woolley. www.maifeminism.com/intersection... #feminism #portrait #academicsky
*Happy dance* It's new issue day!! Welcome to MAI Issue 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, a packed issue highlighting the personal, performative, and intensely political forms of women’s self-portraiture in visual media. #feminism #visualarts www.maifeminism.com/issues/focus...
Focus Issue Fifteen: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture
Our authors demonstrate that women's self-portraiture in media is always personal, performative, and intensely political.
www.maifeminism.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
*Happy dance* It's new issue day!! Welcome to MAI Issue 15: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, a packed issue highlighting the personal, performative, and intensely political forms of women’s self-portraiture in visual media. #feminism #visualarts www.maifeminism.com/issues/focus...
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
www.campaignforthearts.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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Affect in Fandom is out soon, which I co-edited with great colleagues! It's an open-access book with splendid scholarship on fan fic, cosplay and games. How do feelings, texts and memories shape fandom? What do fans create, and why? Find out in March! #mediastudies www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Affect in Fandom
This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan ...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Affect in Fandom is out soon, which I co-edited with great colleagues! It's an open-access book with splendid scholarship on fan fic, cosplay and games. How do feelings, texts and memories shape fandom? What do fans create, and why? Find out in March! #mediastudies www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors.
Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and hi…
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February 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors.
Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
A reminder that our CFP for women's writing is still live!
New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
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February 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A reminder that our CFP for women's writing is still live!
New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
maifeminism.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
Did you know that MAI also accepts creative work? Creative responses can take any form, are peer reviewed using our fair, transparent approach and are an important aspect of creative scholarship. Honor Wilson's confessional in MAI 14 is a great example maifeminism.com/the-men-who-... #academicsky
The Men Who Dressed Me: Buscemi, Cash & Dad
Wilson offers a confessional account on how popular culture's representations of masculinity may contribute to the shaping of trans identity.
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January 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Did you know that MAI also accepts creative work? Creative responses can take any form, are peer reviewed using our fair, transparent approach and are an important aspect of creative scholarship. Honor Wilson's confessional in MAI 14 is a great example maifeminism.com/the-men-who-... #academicsky
Rose Mulraney talks with Alison Ramsey about their shared interests in women’s wellbeing and the use of animation and found footage in filmmaking to help illuminate hidden stories. maifeminism.com/womens-healt... #Academicsky #health
Women's Health on Film: A Conversation with Alison Ramsey
Ramsey reflects on the benefits of increased media visibility of menopause in the context of the struggle for justice in women's health.
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January 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Rose Mulraney talks with Alison Ramsey about their shared interests in women’s wellbeing and the use of animation and found footage in filmmaking to help illuminate hidden stories. maifeminism.com/womens-healt... #Academicsky #health
Happy New Year! Still lots to read and enjoy in our latest issue Feminist Pedagogies in Games, including Julia Kiernan's inspiring account of the power of listening maifeminism.com/situating-rh... #Academicsky #feminism #pedagogy
Situating Rhetorical Listening as a Collaborative Pedagogical Tool
Kiernan offers an account from her classroom to illuminate how rhetorical listening raises social awareness to benefit students' game design.
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January 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happy New Year! Still lots to read and enjoy in our latest issue Feminist Pedagogies in Games, including Julia Kiernan's inspiring account of the power of listening maifeminism.com/situating-rh... #Academicsky #feminism #pedagogy
It's the time of year to think back as well as forward. Teresa Rizzo explores remembering through the practice of rephotography in our latest issue: maifeminism.com/the-beloved-... #academicsky #feminism #photography
The Beloved Bodies of Friendship Photography
Takings pics of her old friends, Rizzo tests Barthes' arguments around affective photography to come to unexpected conclusions.
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December 17, 2024 at 1:07 PM
It's the time of year to think back as well as forward. Teresa Rizzo explores remembering through the practice of rephotography in our latest issue: maifeminism.com/the-beloved-... #academicsky #feminism #photography
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What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.
December 12, 2024 at 12:39 PM
What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.