This summer, Feminist Studies is inviting submissions for our News and Views section for a special forum dedicated to gender, sports, and sports culture. In this moment of unprecedented visibility and commercial growth in women’s athletics, discourses surrounding gender and sport continue to shape social, political, cultural, and economic life. As such, sports remain a powerful site for feminist inquiry and exploration.

We seek short-form essays (up to 1,500 words) for online and/or print publication that offer distinctly feminist analysis of issues shaping sports and sports culture in 2026. We welcome contributions that engage contemporary conversations, historical perspectives, personal narratives grounded in critical analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gender in athletic spaces.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Gender and “Fairness” in Sports
• Transgender Athlete Participation and Eligibility Policies
• Racialization and Racism in Sports Media Coverage
• Media Narratives Around Women Athletes as Celebrity
• Sexuality and Queerness in Athletic Culture
• The Commercialization and Branding of Women’s Sports
• Anti-Blackness, Colorism, and Representation in Athletics

We encourage contributors to think expansively about what constitutes “sports culture,” including digital spaces, fandoms, advertising, fitness culture, collegiate athletics, e-sports, activism, and community-based athletic organizing.

Please submit your submissions to submit@feministstudies.org as an anonymized Word document, not exceeding 1,500 words, and formatted according to The Chicago Manual of Style.

Deadline is August 1, 2026.

In 2026, Feminist Studies is inviting submissions for our News and Views section. This dynamic forum showcases concise, incisive feminist reflections that intervene in the urgent debates shaping our current moment.

We seek short pieces (up to 1,500 words) for online and/or print publication that bring distinctly feminist analysis to pressing social, political, cultural, and technological issues, including:

• Surveillance culture and technology
• Artificial intelligence and algorithmic power
• Climate change and environmental justice
• Fake news, misinformation, and disinformation
• Censorship and freedom of speech
• Reproductive justice
• Racial and gender inequalities
• Indigenous rights and sovereignty
• Sexual violence and institutional complicity (e.g., the Epstein files)
• Me Too/#MeToo and its afterlives

News and Views welcomes timely, accessible, and theoretically informed writing that speaks across disciplines and audiences. We especially encourage submissions that illuminate how feminist perspectives unsettle dominant narratives, challenge systems of power, and imagine more just futures.

Topics beyond those listed are welcome, provided they clearly articulate a feminist approach.

Please submit your reflections to submit@feministstudies.org.
Submissions should be in the form of an anonymized Word document that does not exceed 1,500 words and follow The Chicago Manual of Style.