gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies is an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality. As an open-access journal, gender forum offers a free-of-charge platform for the scholarly discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media, and the arts. Inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier in 2002, past issues of the journal have focused on various topics, drawing from theoretical perspectives such as feminist criticism, gender studies, queer studies, and masculinity studies. gender forum also includes reviews and occasionally interviews, fictional pieces and works of poetry. gender forum is currently edited by a team of general editors consisting of Judith Rauscher, Susanne Gruß, and Johanna Pitetti-Heil, together with an international advisory editorial board and a wonderful team of student assistants and editorial interns.

The team of gender forum is always looking for interns. If you are interested in doing an internship with gender forum, please send an email to gender-forum@uni-koeln.de. We give priority to students from the University of Cologne, whose study programs require them to complete an internship and who are considering to pursue an academic career after completing their studies.

During the summer of 2023, gender forum moved plattforms in order to adapt the journal to current standarts of open access publishing and in order to ensure permanent access to the scholarship published in the journal since its foundation. Until the transition onto the new plattform is complete, you can find an archive of issues 1 - 82 of gender forum on the old website of the journal. Starting with issue 22.1 (2023), all issues as well as all upcoming CfPs will be published on the new website.

•   23.2 [2024] Early Career Researchers XI, edited by Johanna Pitetti-Heil

You can find all upcoming CfPs on the new website of gender forum.

Guest Editors: Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni O. Talabi and Corina Wieser-Cox

General Editor: Judith Rauscher (University of Colgone)

• Judith Rauscher: Editorial
• Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni O. Talabi and Corina Wieser-Cox: Introduction

Articles

• Nadine Ellinger: "The God Within: Interrogating Queer Practices of Faith in Francesca Ekwuyasi’s Butter Honey Pig Bread and Akwaeke Emezi’s “Who Is Like God”"
• Krutika Patri and Alena Cicholewski: "There is no better place for friendships than Canton": Painting Canton as a Queer Space in Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke (2011)"
• Apeksha Pareek: “The Invisible Lives of Indian Lesbians: An Overview of Literature”
• Nele Grosch: “Queer and West African Temporalities in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other”
• Svea Tuerlings: ""To Persons Defiled and Faithless": The Dichotomy of Pleasure and Shame in Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk"
• Logan February, Dorit Neumann and Rita Maricocchi: “Queer Diasporic Forms: A Conversation with Logan February”

Find the full issue and more information about gender forum here.

Guest Editors: Ruth Gehrmann and Julia Velten (both JGU Mainz)

General Editor: Johanna Pitetti-Heil (University of Colgone)

• Johanna Pitetti-Heil: Editorial

• Ruth Gehrmann and Julia Velten: Introductoin

Articles

• Cecilia Colloseus (U of Aalen): "Artificial Tricksters: Narrating AI in Relation to Age and Gender"

• Amina A. Touzos (JGU Mainz): "The Silver Fox of Video Games: Questions of Aging and Masculinity in CD Projekt's The Witcher Series"

• Ruth Gehrmann (JGU Mainz): "The Digital Granny: Staging Grandparents on Social Media"

• Mita Banerjee (JGU Mainz): "Successful Aging on Instagram?: Gender, Age and the 'Rise of the Granfluencer'"

Find the full issue and more information about gender forum here.

•   22.3 [2023/24] Early Career Researchers X, edited by Sarah Busch and Susanne Gruß (both U of Cologne)

Once they have been published, you will be able to find the full issues on the new website of gender forum.