Archived CFPs - Unlisted
Archived CFPs
Archival Elements, Media Fields Special Issue — October 31, 2024
Playable Cities, Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Special Issue — October 15, 2024 (abstracts); May 2025 (full manuscript)
The Future of Medical Humanities, Medical Humanities 25th Anniversary Special Issue — October 1, 2024 (abstracts); Summer 2025 (full manuscript)
Reconceptualizing Caribbean Migration: Contemporary and Critical Perspectives — September 15, 2024 (abstracts)
Puerto Rican Migration: Diasporic Puerto Rican Communities in Transformation, CENTRO Journal Special Issue — September 15, 2024 (abstracts); December 15, 2024 (full manuscript)
Metropolitan Museum Journal Volume 60 (2025) — September 15, 2024
Afro-Latin@* Reader: Volume 2 — August 18, 2024 (abstracts); November 15, 2024 (full manuscript)
Black Feminist Truth Telling: Stories, Statements, and Collective Meaning Making, Global Black Thought — July 1, 2024
Pan-Africanisms, (Post-)Slavery, and Race, Esclavages & Post~Esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries — June 1, 2024 (abstracts); November 1, 2024 (full manuscript)
A Loophole of Retreat, Standpoints — June 1, 2024 (abstracts); September 30, 2024 (full manuscript)
Turning It Off And Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship Special Issue, Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship
Feminist Digital Methods — May 31, 2024 (abstracts); September 14, 2024 (full manuscript)
Open Issue, Race and Yoga — May 1, 2024
Black Mother Scholarship Within and Beyond the Academy: Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity — April 30, 2024 (abstracts); July 15, 2024 (full manuscript)
The Art of Black Preaching and the Rhetoric of the Black Sermon — April 30, 2024
Black British Feminisms and Performance Special Issue, Feral Feminisms — April 1, 2024
https://www.blackwomensstudies.com/s/CFP-The-Journal-of-Africana-Studies-Call-for-Papers-for-Special-Issue-Africana-Queer-Social-Justice.pdf
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (Special Section), Global Perspectives on Surveillance - January 15, 2024
Transformative Works and Cultures (Special issue) AI and Fandom - January 1, 2024
The Future of Conspiracy Scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries - December 31, 2023
Lesbian Studies, Now, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society — December 15, 2023
The Culture of the Social Media Crisis - December 15, 2023
Edited Collection on the Culture of the Social Media Crisis - December 15, 2023
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Knowledges Of Emancipation: Narratives of Resistance and the Amplification of Global Majority Voices - December 15, 2023 (abstracts)
Fashion, Style & Popular Culture (Special issue), ‘Products as Fashion’ - December 1, 2024
Animation Practice, Process & Production Special Issue, Animating Change: Women and Genderqueer Animators - November 15, 2023
Folk, Knowledge, Place (special section) - ‘Sacred isles: Islands as sites of religious, spiritual, or supernatural exception’ - November 12, 2023
‘thread,’ M/C Journal — September 29, 2023
Metropolitan Museum Journal Volume 59 (2024) — September 15, 2023
Plant Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Journal Inaugural Issue — September 1, 2023
Differences and the Digital - Practices and Politics of In/Exclusion in Knowledge Cultures — September 1, 2023
Spaces for Resistance: Essays of Black Feminism on the Ground — August 25, 2023 (abstracts); May 30, 2024 (full submissions)
The Feminist Word (F-Word) — August 13, 2023
Digital Collaborative Learning Initiatives: DEI, Critical Thinking, and Cultivation of Next Generation Skills Special Issue, Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies — July 15, 2023
Centering Blackness in Fan Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures — July 1, 2023
Back to the Future: Feminist Media Activism in Transition, Journal of Gender Studies — June 30, 2023 (abstracts)
The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy — June 15, 2023
Black Popular Culture in America, Popular Culture Review — June 15, 2023
Gendered Segregation and Gendering Segregation Special Issue, Gender & History — May 31, 2023 (abstracts); March 15, 2024 (full submissions)
Black Women’s Contemporary Speculative Fiction Special Issue, The Black Scholar — May 15, 2023 (full submissions)
Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s Special Issue, British Art Studies — May 7, 2023
Race and Yoga Journal 7.1 (2022-2023) — May 1, 2023
Trans- Special Issue, FORUM — April 3, 2023
Neurodiversity Multi-journal Special Issue, Wiley Online Library — April 30, 2023
Black Liberatory Practices in Education Special Issue, Equity & Excellence in Education — April 26, 2023
Home(place): Honouring, (Re)membering and (Re)storying the process of Matriarchal Worlding as Kinship — March 15, 2023 (abstracts)
MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars — March 3, 2023
Digital Media Literacies in Africa: Call for Papers — February 1, 2023 (abstracts)
Transgressive Teaching & Learning: Critical Essays on bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy
Informalisms, liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies — January 15, 2023
A Cultural History of Pregnancy and Childbirth: The Age of Enlightenment and the Atlantic System (1764-1860), Bloomsbury Press — October 1, 2022 (abstracts); August 15, 2023 (full submissions)
Engendering Carcerality, Gender & History, September 30, 2022
The Experiences of Black Women Diversity Practitioners in Historically White Institutions — July 30, 2022 (abstracts); September 30, 2022 (full submissions)
The Somatechnics of Water - July 31, 2022 (abstracts)
The Black 1980s, Journal of African American History — September 1, 2022
Call for (Specific) Chapters: The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison - July 1, 2022 (extended deadline)
Worlds of Imagination, Global Perspectives on Media, Tourism and Culture — September 1 (Abstracts)
Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization, Media and Communication — September 1, 2022
Civil Rights Work as a Global Strategy of Resistance and Resilience, Change over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Build Environment — September 2, 2022 (abstracts); April 2023 (full submissions)
The Somatechnics of Race - June 30, 2022 (abstracts)
Who is FemTech for?: Intersectional Interventions in Women’s Digital Health - June 20, 2022 (abstract deadline extended)
Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, Special Issue on Black Women and Title IX — June 15, 2022
Taking the Mic: Black British Spoken Word Poetry Since 1965 - June 15, 2022 (abstract due)
The Politics of Policing: Global and Comparative Perspectives - June 1 2022 (abstracts)
Labors of Love and Loss: Radical Acts of Human, Plant, and Nonhuman Mothering - May 31 2022 (abstracts)
Dance and the Black Body - May 16 2022 (Abstract due)
Archiving Activism in the Digital Age - May 15 2022 (abstracts)
touching:blackstudy, a zine — May 10, 2022
The Feminist Word (F-Word) — April 12, 2022
Special Issue on Militarization and Pleasure - April 1 2022 (abstracts)
Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association (Spring 2022 issue) - January 1, 2022 (full submissions)
Representing Girlhood in Popular Culture - December 17 (abstracts)
Critical Essays on Gloria Naylor, University of Mississippi Press — January 15, 2022 (abstracts)
Gender and Society, Special Issue on Race, Gender, and Violence in the US — January 15, 2022
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) - Winter Call for Papers - November 30
Queer and Trans Health Justice: Interventions, Perspectives, and Questions, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine — November 1, 2021 (abstracts); March 15, 2022 (full Submissions)
Black Femme Collective, Call for Submissions for Writers — June 13, 2021
It’s Where You’re @: Hip-Hop and the Internet, Global Hip Hop Studies — July 12, 2021(abstracts); October 22, 2021 (full submissions)
William and Mary Quarterly/Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation Companion Issue — July 15, 2021 (abstracts)
Beyond the White House: The First Lady in Film, Fiction, and Culture — July 16, 2021 (abstracts)
Afrofuturism, CLA Journal — August 1, 2021 (abstracts); September 15, 2021 (full submissions)
The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film - August 1, 2021 (abstracts); January 14, 2022 (full submission)
The Gender Issue in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Richard Wright’s Literary Works, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International — August 2, 2021 (abstracts); February 7, 2022 (full submissions)
Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies — September 1, 2021
liquid blackness: a journal of aesthetics and black studies: "Black and Queer, Music on Screen" — September 15, 2021
Against Infrastructures of Harm: Engaging Designs and Geographies of Containment, Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum — June 15 (abstracts); September 30, 2021 (full submissions)
Streetnotes, Walking in the Digital City — January 16, 2020
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Between DH and Me: Special Issue on Black Studies in/for the Rising Digital Humanities Generation — January 17, 2020
Streetnotes, Walking in the Digital City — January 16, 2020
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Between DH and Me: Special Issue on Black Studies in/for the Rising Digital Humanities Generation — January 17, 2020
Rights and Lives: Continuities in Black Freedom Struggles, Vanderbilt University Press — January 31, 2020
Technical Communication Quarterly, Unruly Bodies, Intersectionality, and Marginalization and Medical Discourse
Radical History Review, Breaking News — February 1, 2020
Transnational American Spaces, Vernon Press — February 29, 2020
Feminist Anthropology 2.1, #CiteBlackWomen — March 1, 2020
Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs (JCSHESA), Promoting Access and Critical Literacy: Working Within, Beyond, and Against the Academy — March 2020
Black Women’s Mental Health History, SUNY Press — March 30, 2020
Feminist Formations, Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University — May 15, 2020
Journal of African American History, New Directions in African American Sports History — May 29, 2020
NWSA/University of Illinois Press, First Book Prize in Women’s & Gender Studies — June 1 (Annually)
Open Cultural Studies, Black Girl Magic — September 15, 2020 (Abstracts); January 31, 2021 (Submissions)
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Rethinking “First Wave” Feminism — September 15, 2020
Gender and History, Food and Sovereignty — September 30
Mothering and Motherwork in the Time of Black Lives Matter, Demeter Press — October 1, 2020 (Abstracts); April 1, 2021 (Submissions)
Bulletin of the Comediantes, Black Performance in Early Modern Iberia — October 15, 2020 (Abstracts); September 30, 2021 (Submissions)
Governing Genealogies of Film Education — October 15, 2020
Journal of American Folklore, African American Expressive Culture and Protest, Imagination, and Dreams of Blackness — November 2, 2020
Housing Policy Debate, Keeping Americans Housed: Research on Homelessness Prevention and Diversion — November 8, 2020 (Abstracts); March 1, 2021 (Submissions)
A (Re)Turn to the African Girl - (Re)Defining African Girlhood Studies— November 25, 2020
Black Women’s Music Database Book Chapters, blackwomensmusicdatabase.net — November 30, 2020
Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, Unbound Sexualities: The Erotics of Indenture and its Legacies — November 30, 2020
Third Stone Journal, Afro-futurism, African-futurism, and the Black Fantastic — November 30, 2020
Journal of Social Issues, Magnifying Inequality: Women’s Lives During the COVID-19 Pandemic — December 11, 2020
Resilience: Black Women and Public Health, SUNY Press — January 15, 2021
Studies in Romanticism, Race, Blackness, and Romanticism: A Forum — January 15, 2021
European Journal of Women’s Studies, Transformative Activism: Feminist and Queer Imaginaries — March 1, 2021
The Black Scholar, Post-Soul Afro-Latinidades — March 1, 2021
Teaching of Psychology, Social Justice Pedagogy: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Teaching of Psychology— March 1, 2021
Women’s Studies Quarterly, Black Love — March 1, 2021
Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, Special Issue on Jordan Peele — April 30, 2021
New Essays on The Woman of Colour (Anonymous, 1808), Eighteenth Century Fiction — May 15, 2021 (abstracts); February 2022 (full submissions)