Creatively attending to unfinished business, everyday sexisms, covid-19, and higher education: The #FEAS fake journal

Authors

Mindy Blaise, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Emily Gray
Jo Pollitt, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Renae Acton, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Shanee Barraclough
Linnea Bodén
Fin Cullen
Karien Dekker
Hedvig Gröndal
Sharlene Leroy-Dyer
Peta Murray
Susan Nordstrom
Lina Rahm
Elin Sundström Sjödin
Raewyn Tudor

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis

First Page

380

Last Page

382

Publisher

Routledge

School

School of Arts and Humanities

RAS ID

70317

Comments

Blaise, M., Gray, E., Pollitt, J., Acton, R., Barraclough, S., Bodén, L., ... & Tudor, R. (2024). Creatively attending to unfinished business, everyday sexisms, covid-19, and higher education: The# FEAS fake journal. In The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis (pp. 380-412). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003303558-45

Abstract

COVID-19 amplified the everyday sexisms that academics experience in higher education, including women’s submission of publications. This chapter shows how a creative and transdisciplinary intervention, #FEAS FAKE JOURNAL, made space for feminist academics whose scholarship was affected by the pandemic to take part in a project that privileged “unfinished business”. A creative methodology was used that moved beyond the traditional research narrative that relies on mastery and certainty. Seventeen feminist academics participated in the project by submitting an abstract to a fake journal about an unfinished work. Several creative components were used to solicit and support personal, political, and creative accounts to the pandemic. These accounts show how feminist academics were affected by lockdowns, how they managed, and in some cases how they connected with each other. Findings show how transdisciplinary feminist creative activism made space for participants to reflect on the effects of the pandemic and to consider what is worth finishing. This paper shares a rare glimpse into the behind the scenes of knowledge making and doing as unfinished business. It shows how transdisciplinary feminist art activism can be enacted with care and solidarity with others.

DOI

10.4324/9781003303558-45

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