Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice | ESOL edit
CFP for publication or other deadlineJanuary 4, 2027
Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly invites submissions on accountability, complicity, solidarity, and transformative justice across interpersonal, institutional, and structural contexts.
feminist accountability
We are irrevocably implicated in the systems of oppression we seek to dismantle, and the effects of those systems live with us and within us. Accountability—understood as taking responsibility for our contributions to and complicity in systemic harms—offers a framework for practicing feminist solidarity, building community, and supporting individual and collective healing.
The issue is especially interested in the tensions, limits, and possibilities of accountability: not only as an ethical ideal, but as a lived, contested, and situated practice across interpersonal, institutional, and structural contexts.
Questions include:
What does it mean to take responsibility for harm within feminist communities?
How might accountability reshape understandings of power, complicity, and solidarity?
What challenges arise when transformative justice frameworks developed in grassroots and activist contexts are brought into academic spaces?
In keeping with Feminist Philosophy Quarterly's commitment to inclusive, intersectional, and community-engaged feminist philosophy, submissions are especially encouraged to engage and build upon the work of scholars from historically marginalized communities and those most affected by the forms of harm under discussion.
Topics
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Feminist accountability as a practice: its limits, tensions, and conditions of possibility
Accountability beyond carceral logics: abolitionist and transformative approaches to harm
Transformative justice as ethical and political praxis
Responsibility, complicity, and refusal in conditions of structural injustice
Practices of repair, restitution, and non-reconciliation
Community-based responses to harm: care, conflict, and collective healing
Navigating accountability in a context of backlash and reaction
The misuse of accountability practices and procedures
Accountability within feminist movements: power, exclusion, and internal critique
Pedagogies of accountability: teaching, learning, and institutional responsibility
The politics of "calling in," "calling out," and other modes of response
Citation as accountability: feminist lineage-building and epistemic responsibility
Coalition-building and solidarity across asymmetries of power
Mutual aid, abolition feminism, disability justice, and transformative justice
Intersections of restorative and transformative justice frameworks
Feminist responses to interpersonal, gendered, and sexual violence
Feminist responses to state violence, war, and genocide
The ethics and politics of care within transformative justice practices
Submission Details
Deadline: 4 January 2027
Length: Up to 9,000 words, including notes and excluding references
Review process: Double-anonymous peer review
File formats: PDF, Word (DOC/DOCX), or RTF
Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review, with all identifying information removed from the manuscript. Authors should submit two separate files:
An anonymized manuscript
A title page containing the paper title, author name(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information
Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (author–date system).