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Feminist Media Histories
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Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.

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Through an examination of the Muslim call to prayer opening Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" (1991), Pardis Dabashi's article examines certainty and doubt generated by the speculative turn in Black feminist film and media historiography.

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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social

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November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Carly Kocurek's digital collage "Becoming Lara" imagines a middle-aged Lara Croft through the lens of an imagined feature in a women's magazine @sparklebliss.bsky.social

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November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Our Fall 2025 issue "Notes on Historical Methods" is now live! In her introduction, Katherine Groo reflects on the voices of historical writing, the long history of feminist methods, and the guiding concept and structure of the "note" itself.

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October 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In 11(3), Samantha Blackmon's Critical Let’s Play video looks at how colonization has seeped into the very mechanics of the latest installment in the Tomb Raider series—a mechanic she calls "Magic Colonizer Fingers."

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October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM