Naming, Embodiment, and the Ethics of Seeing in Dangerous Times

The importance of rigorous, critical engagements with race, gender, culture, and identity has never been as urgent as it is in the present moment.Across multiple global sites, most visibly though not exclusively in the United States, we are witnessing the tightening of ideological orthodoxies, the erosion of hard-won feminist and antiracist gains, and the re-legitimation of religious narratives that thrive on ideas of supremacy and domination.It is a dangerous time to do critical scholarship thus making the work all the more necessary.In such moments, journals such as ours' continue to hold intellectual and ethical space for the slow, difficult, and often costly work of refusing the comforts of non-involvement and abstraction.