For the 69th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Rupture and Remake: African Possibilities in a Shifting World, this panel proposes a continuation of our 2025 panel, Afro-Diasporic Feminist Resistance and Representation in Contemporary Cultural Production, while deepening its engagement with the transformative, imaginative, and praxis-oriented dimensions of rupture in the current global moment.
This panel invites scholars to explore how Afro-descendant women and gender-expansive artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, and cultural producers engage moments of political, ecological, epistemological, digital, and intimate rupture as sites of feminist intervention, survival, refusal, and worldmaking. We are particularly interested in how Afro-feminist discourses in Latin America and the Caribbean resonate with, inform, and/or challenge those on the African continent, forging transcontinental dialogues grounded in collectivity, memory, healing, and resistance.
In a world marked by collapsing hegemonies, ecological precarity, mass displacement, digital hyper-surveillance, and contested regimes of knowledge production, Afro-diasporic feminist imaginaries offer radical blueprints for alternative futures. These creative and critical practices destabilize colonial grammars, contest erasure, and reconfigure dominant frameworks of archive, authorship, memory, time, and citizenship. Rather than positioning Afro-diasporic subjects as passive witnesses to global transformation, this panel centers them as theorists, visionaries, archivists, and agents of remaking. Based on this research scope, we welcome papers that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
Afro-diasporic feminist responses to political, ecological, and epistemological rupture
Cultural production as a site of worldmaking, healing, and radical imagination
Afrofuturist, speculative, and ancestral feminist frameworks
Decolonial, ecological, and spiritual imaginaries in Black women’s art and literature
Digital resistance, online archives, and feminist technological practices
The body, performance, sound, and visual culture as spaces of rupture and remaking
Transnational feminist solidarities and South–South dialogues
Memory, trauma, and futurity in postcolonial and post-conflict contexts
Language, silence, erasure, and the radical act of narration
Alternative archives and modes of knowledge transmission
Proposals from scholars at all career stages — including graduate students, independent researchers, artists, and scholar-activists — are encouraged. Interdisciplinary and creative approaches are especially welcome. To be considered, please submit:
A title and abstract (250–300 words)
A brief bio (100–150 words)
Send submissions to: Lidiana de Moraes (Florida State University) and Tomi Adeaga (University of Vienna)
Email: lidiana.demoraes@fsu.edu
Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2026
We look forward to your submissions and to fostering a vibrant and generative dialogue on the transformative power of Afro-diasporic feminist cultural production in moments of rupture and remaking. For questions or additional information, please contact us at the provided email address.
Afro-Diasporic Feminist Imaginations: Rupture and Remaking in Contemporary Cultural Production
