“Monstrous Intimacies at 15,” a forthcoming special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly.
Select essays from the 2026 colloquium held at the University of Toronto will be published in this special issue marking the 15th anniversary of Christina Sharpe’s monograph, Monstrous Intimacies.
“Aporias,” a special section of Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
Cultural studies has never been a stranger to controversy, disagreement, or drama. But these debates emerge precisely because there are stakes to the minutiae, because something as seemingly trivial as a term can make the most profound of differences in how we see and understand the world. Enter Aporias, a new special section of Lateral, where we embrace the debate. For this section, we invite emerging scholars to write about the contemporary or historic controversies or lacunae within cultural studies or related fields that have yet to be properly synthesized, countenanced, or come to resolution. Rather than asking our writers to resolve conceptual dilemmas, Aporias instead asks them to explore disagreements or distinctions. Aporias is not oriented toward a resolution, but explicitly is devoted to the problem itself, leaving them unresolved to provoke future research.
“Care and Cure,” a special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
This special issue reflects on the relationship between care and cure, and the collective violence ordained in the name of both. Who is cared for, and by whom? What political purpose does care serve? What alternatives to care are possible? How is care deployed as a cure for violence – and how does care reproduce it?