[JoPP-Public] Updates about JoPP special issue on Feminism and (Un)hacking

Mon Apr 27 08:21:35 CEST 2015

Hello,
sounds great, there I hope you chose a provoking collective identity 
name, Xtalk, a collective that provide language courses and support 
services to sex workers went for "Ava Caradonna" ... who is:

Ava Caradonna is a migrant, a sex worker, a student, a mother, a 
citizen, a transgender, a person of colour, a teacher, a lesbian and a 
militant- she allows us to speak from different positions as sex workers 
and as allies, without the stigma of using our ‘real’ names and allows 
us to speak to the different realities in the sex industry and beyond.

:)

on the other side, if I understand correctly, I miss the call for 
"external reviewers", it's a pity....:( any way,

take care,
sara

Il 2015-04-27 03:28 sophie toupin ha scritto:
> Dear all,
> 
> I hope this email finds you well.
> 
> I would like to briefly update you on where we are at with the Special
> Issue on Feminism and (Un)hacking and some of the thought provoking
> reflection we are having with this issue currently. At a more mundane
> level, we are pleased to inform you that the first round of peer review
> has been completed and we should start the second round in May. So all
> is good on that front.
> 
> On a more thought provoking aspect, we have been pondering for quite
> some time now on how to handle the order of editors. So far in our
> communication we have been using a standard alphabetical order. Lilly 
> in
> our group suggested to create a pen name out of our three names to have
> a single editor for the Special Issue. The idea of a pen-name is
> inspired in part by the work of radical feminist geographers J.K.
> Gibson-Graham who did just that a few years ago. We all feel our 
> special
> issue is perfect for such experimentation as it is a hack on the
> academic publishing system and the hierarchical order it imposes on
> researchers. Our introductory article to the Special Issue will 
> probably
> begin with an explanation of our own contribution to feminist hacking:
> That is a “HowTo” on how to hack academic standards and traditions from
> a feminist and queer perspective, while giving equal recognition to all
> for their work. Also, we feel that the choice of a pen-name does not
> erase our identities as individuals, but rather aim at questioning and
> initiating a discussion about the nature of work, scholarship,
> expertise, and authority from a feminist and queer framework. We are 
> all
> super enthusiastic about the idea of resisting the traditional
> authorship structure in our special issue. We hope you will be as
> excited as we are about this experimentation.
> 
> Very best,
> 
> SSL Nagbot
> 
> (SSL= Secure Sockets Layer, or if you prefer, Shaowen, Sophie, Lilly)
> 
> 
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