Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 19, Issue 4, 2016

Abstract Zines are self-published booklets, magazines, or comics which can cover any subject. A large proportion of the zines produced today are feminist personal zines, or ‘perzines’, which discuss issues such as sexual violence, mental health, menstruation, and lesbophobia. Despite blogs and other digital media being popular among feminist zine makers, they choose to publish life-writing on paper. Through analysing zines Read More

Abstract Like the author, the main character of The yellow wallpaper (1890) suffers from mental illness and – even more so – from the treatment thereof. Both Charlotte Gilman and her heroine react against their unfair treatments by telling their own story. This article elucidates the truth those illness narratives contain. I approach the short story, its narrator, and its author from a gender-deconstructionist angle, focussing on the Read More

Abstract During the summer of 2016, Kif Kif, a local Belgian antiracist movement, organised the first Gender & Super-diversity summer school with support from the Belgian feminist group Vrouwen Overleg Komitee (now Furia) and ella – the Belgian non-profit knowledge centre for gender and ethnicity. This interview with the summer school’s initiator, Evelien Geerts, who is currently a PhD student at the University of California, Read More

Abstract The predominantly masculine imagery and theological conception of God and Jesus have often been criticised by feminist theologians and artists, for instance by investing in ‘Christalogy’ as an alternative systematic theological reading of Christ and by sculpting and painting ‘Christas’ or female cross figures. In this essay, I argue that such a feminised depiction of Christ does not solve the problem of the gender dichotomy Read More