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Published: 2026-02-27

Gendered Life Stories and the Politics of Imagination (Special Issue)

Introduction to the Special Issue: Gendered Life Stories and the Politics of Imagination

Nicholas Manganas, Macarena Gordillo de Paz
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Queering #MeToo: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House as Narrative Activism

Bianca Martin
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"Cheers to 365 days of Being a Woman”: Dylan Mulvaney, Transgender Womanhood on Social Media, and the Right’s Transphobic Countermovement

Shayna Maskell
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Transgender Narratives and Online Dating: Reframing Trans-Cis Relations (in Cape Town)

Elana Leah Ryklief, Sally Ann Murray
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Through Whose Eyes? Discrimination, Vulnerability, and Global Trespassers in Documentaries about Girls Crossing Borders

Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz
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Role Model

Joanna Eleftheriou
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Extracts from the Novel Chiaroscuro

Vek Lewis
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Churchill: A Short Story of Contemporary Lebanon

Sleiman El Hajj
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Essays

The Power of a Global Citizenship Curriculum on College Students

Lampeto Efthymiou, Tony Monahan
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Art as a Catalyst for Global Citizenship: The National Film Board of Canada’s Approach to Societal Challenges

John Bessai
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Reweaving Technology and Culture: Rethinking Indian Handlooms through an Anthropological Lens

Abhradip Banerjee
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Chinampas, Flowers and Struggles

Nubia Nieto Flores
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