{"id":83635,"date":"2025-12-03T02:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=83635"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:59:00","slug":"cfp-beyond-borders-black-indigenous-encounters-between-audre-lorde-and-antonina-kymytval-publication-by-01-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=83635","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Beyond Borders: Black-Indigenous Encounters between Audre Lorde and Antonina Kymytval (Publication); by – extended: 15.05.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Archive Revisited Gazette<\/b> (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n

Proposals by – extended: 15.05.2026 (before: 01.02.2026)<\/p>\n

Following the Beyond Borders meeting series hosted by the WGSS Department at the Univ. of South Florida (Web)<\/a>, we warmly invite submissions for a special issue of The Archive Revisited Gazette celebrating Chukchee poet Antonina Kymytval\u2019 and her brief but profoundly resonant encounter with Audre Lorde during the 1976 Afro-Asian Writers Conference in Tashkent. Lorde\u2019s essay \u201cNotes from a Trip to Russia\u201d (Sister Outsider, 1984) and her poem \u201cPolitical Relations\u201d (Our Dead Behind Us, 1986) offer the only detailed accounts of this meeting, providing a rich starting point for reflection, creative engagement, and critical exploration.
\nThis special issue invites contributors to explore the intertwined legacies of Black and Indigenous feminist Internationalism, shining a light on the intimate and often overlooked connections that transcend Cold War boundaries. At its heart, the issue celebrates Kymytval\u2019s poetics, Indigenous resilience, and the bold, affective solidarities she shared with Audre Lorde\u2014what Lorde evocatively described as \u201cmaking love\u2026through our interpreters.\u201d<\/p>\n

We invite contributions that illuminate or respond to:
\n– Antonina Kymytval\u2019s poetry, especially its reflections on land, loss, survival, and relationality
\n– Kymytval\u2019s role in Soviet Indigenous literary history and the tensions she navigated within Soviet assimilationist policies
\n– The erotic, intimate, and political dimensions of Lorde and Kymytval\u2019s encounter, including the constraints of language, Cold War politics, and the briefness of their meeting
\n– How Lorde\u2019s and Kymytval\u2019s relationship invites us to rethink dominant East\/West geopolitical frameworks
\n– Transnational feminist solidarities across racialized and colonized spaces
\n– Indigenous and Black poetic traditions as living archives of Internationalism
\n– Archival traces of Kymytval\u2019 and the exciting possibilities for re-engaging with and re-reading her work today<\/p>\n

We welcome a wide range of formats and voices, including (but not limited to):
\n– Short critical essays or reflections (500\u20131,200 words)
\n– Reflections on Kymytval\u2019s poetry (poetic, visual, etc.)
\n– Interviews with scholars, translators, or Indigenous artists
\n– Annotated lesson plans or syllabi featuring Kymytval\u2019 or Lorde
\n– Creative work: poetry, hybrid or speculative writing, visual art
\n– Archival vignettes or stories<\/p>\n

This issue invites contributors to re-read Kymytval\u2019 and reflect on what solidarity and sensuality mean across geographies, historical silences, and artistic forms.<\/p>\n

Submission deadline for proposals or submissions: February 1, 2026. Send proposals or complete submissions to: shchurkot (at) usf.edu<\/p>\n

Source: Gender Campus and H-Net Notifications (Web) (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Archive Revisited Gazette (Web) Proposals by – extended: 15.05.2026 (before: 01.02.2026) Following the Beyond Borders meeting series hosted by the WGSS Department at the Univ. of South Florida (Web), we warmly invite submissions for a special issue of The Archive Revisited Gazette celebrating Chukchee poet Antonina Kymytval\u2019 and her brief but profoundly resonant encounter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers","category-topic_1968","category-history-of-european-womens-movements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84605,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83635\/revisions\/84605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}