'Guerilla' Publishing on Feminism Today: MAI Feminism & Visual Culture

Misiak, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-944X (2025) 'Guerilla' Publishing on Feminism Today: MAI Feminism & Visual Culture. In: Ženske delajo film. Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana, Lubijana, pp. 123-131. ISBN 791:305-055.2(082)

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Abstract / Summary

In this case study on film & feminism publishing today, introducing the story of an open-access, independent online journal, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture (maifeminism.com), its editor-in-chief shows how the late bell hooks' vision of gender politics motivated her and Professor Anna Backman Rogers to start the website in 2018.

Sparked by their collaborative effort, MAI soon attracted a global collective of artists and scholars who now help showcase the best of feminist creative and academic work from the field.

With its popular bi-annual journal and now a book publishing label under Punctum Press, MAI has become a success story of what elsewhere may be considered an ironic fit of guerilla and academic feminist publishing—rigorously peer-reviewed yet sitting outside the corporate research publishing market.

The chapter covers how several MAI issues and articles, particularly those focussed on films, television and video art, have fed into propagating scholarship and practice-based research.

The text will outlines the intersectional feminist agenda, which MAI editors of both genders hold dear, and how that translates into the journal's evolving operations, vocabulary, rationale, educational hopes and global outreach.

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