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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder! Today is the deadline to sign-up for the 2026-2027 Online Mentoring Program. Each year CFSHRC matches mentor-mentee pairs to collaborate together over a 6 month period. Sign-up today as a mentor, mentee, or both! To participate, complete the form at tiny.cc/CFSHRCMentor....

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy #FeministFridays! This #FemRhet2027 proposal writing workshop is one week away - will we see you there?

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sign ups for 2026-2027 Mentorship Program are open! CFSHRC matches mentor-mentee pairs to collaborate together over a 6 month period. For mentees this program offers a great way to work towards a goal (such as job market materials, article drafting, etc.) with feedback from an experienced mentor.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We'll walk through the CFP, share tips for crafting a proposal, answer questions, and help you get started. There will also be time to connect with other attendees and learn how to find additional panelists after the workshop. Bring your ideas and questions. We hope to see you there!

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Feminisms and Rhetorics 2027 Proposal Workshop: Friday, September 25 11-12 CST. Thinking about submitting a proposal to FemRhet2027? Join our FemRhet Proposal Workshop! 🔗 umn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

FemRhets Proposal Workshop

On Zoom
Friday, September 25, 11:00 a.m. to Noon Central Time.

Let's write together! Join us on Zoom to learn tips to craft your proposal, meet potential collaborators, and work on your FemRhet proposal in good company.

Feminisms & Rhetorics 2027 will be August 5-7, 2027, in Minneapolis, MN.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This #FeministFridays, we're turning heartbreak into action. Julie D. Nelson asks what we might do with our longing for what's been lost on campus, turning it into countermemory and coalition work rather than retreat. Read it in the Summer 2026 Peitho issue: doi.org/10.37514/PEI...

In "A Case for Nostalgia in Academia's Crisis," Julie D. Nelson reads a taped-over DEI office sign as countermemory, arguing that critical nostalgia helps feminist rhetoricians critique hegemonic movements while preserving the histories now under threat. She calls on the field to document and preserve countermemories of current attacks on higher education so that what we long for can fuel coalition work toward just futures. Read more in the 2026 Summer Peitho Issue: Academia in Crisis!

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New #FeministFridays in Peitho Summer 2026! At a time of fear, gaslighting, and precarity, how do we process the friction between our values and our institutions’ actions? 🧵

The image reads "In "Disrupting Rhetorics of Inevitability in Higher Education" Del Russo et al. identify and push back on rhetorics of inevitability which manufacture emergencies in order limit agency. They call on feminist rhetoricians to examine narrative frameworks that convince institutions to move in bad faith and from a sense of panic and instead work towards just futures. Read more in the 2026 Summer Peitho Issue: Academia in Crisis"

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#TeamRhetoric if you've fought Insecurity Mountain and won, let #FeministFridays help you win some readers too. Send us your feminist rhetorical scholarship, & we'll spread the word! 🫡 Link to share your work: forms.gle/yKuK5LfeDEWB...

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pls help us spread the word. I co-edit a book series called Precarity and Contingency at @wacclearinghouse.bsky.social. We're seeking a new editorial team member (top post on this page). (cont)

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Positions with the WAC Clearinghouse - WAC

We welcome new members to our publishing collaborative. Most positions carry formal titles reflecting the nature of the work done to support our publishing activities, such as editor, associate editor...

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#FemRhet2027 invites proposals discussing "mainstream" rhetorics of resistance—protest, dissent, speaking up & out, or opposing dominant ideas/movements—& capacious feminist rhetorics of resistance that emerge in everyday contexts. Read the CFP @ femrhet2027.cfshrc.org & submit an abstract by 11/1!

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌺 Ritchie, Joy, and Kathleen Boardman. “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption.” College Composition and Communication 50, no. 4 (1999): 585–606. doi.org/10.2307/358482

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌼 Glenn, Cheryl. “Sex, Lies, and Manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric.” College Composition and Communication 45, no. 2 (1994): 180–99. doi.org/10.2307/359005

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌸 Gere, Anne Ruggles. “Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition.” College Composition and Communication 45, no. 1 (1994): 75–92. doi.org/10.2307/358588

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌻 Arellano, Sonia C. “Sexual Violences Traveling to El Norte: An Example of Quilting as Method.” College Composition and Communication 72, no. 4 (2021): 500–515. www.jstor.org/stable/27114...

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This #FeministFridays, we're back highlighting feminist work from the CCC's archives. You can find this week's articles at the links below, and tell us in the comments--which work should we highlight next?

Published in 2021, "Sexual Violences Traveling to El Norte: An Example of Quilting as Method," by Sonia C. Arellano presents a quilt as the published research itself and argues that Quilting as Method, a feminist qualitative method, can deepen how the field understands the state-sanctioned violences migrant women experience.

Published in 1999, "Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption," by Joy Ritchie and Kathleen Boardman traces three overlapping tropes across thirty years of feminist work in composition and asks what each one makes possible.

Published in 1994, "sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric," by Cheryl Glenn reconstructs Aspasia of Miletus as a teacher and rhetorician whose contributions were attributed to the men around her, and asks where on the rhetorical landscape we should begin looking for women.

Published in 1994, "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition," by Anne Ruggles Gere argues that writing development happens regularly and successfully outside classroom walls, and asks composition to recognize its extracurriculum as an autonomous cultural formation with its own projects.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We stand in solidarity with the many scholars who have highlighted feminism’s power to disrupt and advance the field of rhetoric and writing studies. Check out the featured articles and reply with the CCC’s work which has impacted your journey as a feminist scholar 👇

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In light of NCTE’s recent decision to de-charter CCCC, this #FeministFriday we will be highlighting feminist scholarship published in CCC over the past decades.

The image states, "Published in 1999, “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption,” by Joy Ritchie and Kathleen Boardman develops a critical historical survey of feminism’s emergence in composition from the 1970s and argues for the importance of feminist energy for disruption and sustaining coalitions for change."

The image states, "Published in 2002, "Substantive and Feminist Girlie Action': Women Online" by Jacqueline Rhodes explores radical feminist textuality and its benefits in writing studies scholarship and the classroom."

The image states, "Published in 2025, “Because We’re Going to Mess Up’: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach,” by Beth Godbee and Rasha Diab asks how the field of rhetoric, writing, and literacy studies can disrupt everyday structural injustices and invest in accountability."

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

🙋We're open to everyone, and especially grad students! We offer the biannual Feminisms & Rhetorics conference, Peitho journal, a mentoring program, awards, webinars & more cfshrc.org

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CFSHRC – The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

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Kendall Gerdes 📚🐦‍⬛ @kendalljoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thank you to the leaders of @rhetsoc.bsky.social for their Letter of Solidarity with the members of CCCC. Read it here: mailchi.mp/rhetoricsoci...

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A Letter of Solidarity from the RSA Executive Board

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Disability Studies Standing Group of Cs also put out a statement

Statement reading: The Disability Studies Standing Group (DSSG) of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) joins our colleagues across the field in expressing our deep concern regarding NCTE leadership’s reported plans to dissolve CCCC and integrate its work into NCTE’s College Section. While the exact status and future of CCCC remain unclear, we are alarmed by the lack of transparency surrounding this decision-making process and by the absence of meaningful communication and consultation with CCCC officers, Committees and Committee chairs, Standing Groups, Task forces, and the broader CCCC membership.

For DSSG in particular, CCCC has provided an essential scholarly home for researchers, teachers, and activists working at the intersections of critical disability studies, disability rhetoric, and composition studies. Through CCCC’s support of Standing Groups, DSSG has developed and sustained mentoring relationships, maintained shared resources, coordinated disability-focused panels and workshops, advocated for access, and built a community for scholars whose work has historically been marginalized within academic institutions.

The proposal to dissolve CCCC’s - especially without the communication and collaboration necessary to safeguard and sustain the organization’s long history of knowledge- and resource-building - threatens the relationships and intellectual networks cultivated through DSSG’s operations. For early-career scholars and graduate students, the community built through DSSG and other CCCC’s standing groups provides an introduction to the field and supportive mentorship. We are deeply saddened by the thought that future generations of rhetoric and composition scholars and students will not be able to benefit from all that CCCC offers. CCCC plays a critical role in pedagogical knowledge production in composition and writing studies and beyond, and the loss of disability and accessibility position statements written by composition…

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

These submissions might use a range of methodological approaches, including archival research, film and media analysis, memoir, and essays that blend creative and scholarly work. In addition to essays, consider shorter submissions to "Recoveries & Reconsiderations" & the new "Overlays" section!

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CFP Special Issue of Peitho, Summer 2027

Call for ProposalsSpecial Issue of Peitho, Summer 2027 Practicing Resilience at 40: Marking Four Decades of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC)…

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The editors invite article-length and multimodal submissions on topics that engage the practice of resilience from a feminist rhetorical, historiographic, pedagogical, environmental, digital, administrative and/or political perspective.

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CFP Special Issue of Peitho, Summer 2027

Call for ProposalsSpecial Issue of Peitho, Summer 2027 Practicing Resilience at 40: Marking Four Decades of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC)…

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This #FeministFridays, we're highlight a CFP for Peitho's Summer 2027 Special Issue: Practicing Resilience at 40: Marking Four Decades of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition 🧵 for details, or read the CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Practicing Resilience at 40: Marking Four Decades of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

500 word proposals due September 1.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you could list the downsides of losing CCCC, can you help me with that list? #teamrhetoric

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Do you have your own news or accomplishment to share? We'd love to celebrate with you! Tell us about your wins in this Google Form to be featured in Feminist Fridays: forms.gle/hfzUJJuxuDiB...

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We are so excited to read this book at the intersection of #transfeminist rhetorical theory and #ComicsStudies!

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Examining the works of ten different transgender comic creators, including Julia Kaye, Mae Dean, and N.D. Stevenson, Zoe Wendler and Jamie Garner show the vital role these comics play in online transgender communities.

Dreaming Ourselves Intro Being: The Rhetoric of Trans Comics explore the ways in which trangender webcomic creators and their readers use the medium to offer guidance on coming out, support during those early months, and hope for a world in which being transgender is far from remarkable. Ultimately, they show how these comics fill the void created by decades of cruel medical gatekeeping and neglect and media representation that reduced the incredible complexity of gender diversity into a binary transness much more palatable to cisgender audiences.

This book is a deeply interdisciplinary autoethnography, bringing together research in rhetoric, medicine, history, psychology, sociology, queer studies, and comic studies to show just how essential transgender webcomics are to the trans artists that create them and the trans people who read them.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Do you have your own news or accomplishment to share? We'd love to celebrate with you! Tell us about your wins in this Google Form to be featured in Feminist Fridays: forms.gle/hfzUJJuxuDiB...

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Drawing on feminist ethos theory & rhetorics of health & medicine, Stambler shows how epideictic appeals to "good" & "bad" eating reinscribe hegemonic nutrition norms while wrapping consumerism in the language of wellness. Hungry for more? Read the article in Peitho: wacclearinghouse.org/peitho/

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Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric - The WAC Clearinghouse

Peitho is the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy #FeministFridays! In her recent Peitho article, Danielle Mollie Stambler coins "rhetorical sandwiches" to describe how healthy lifestyle articles layer expert commentary around hedged science to build ethos and motivate behavior change. 🧵

Danielle Mollie Stambler's article "Rhetorical Sandwiches: Layering Ethos and Epideictic Appeals as a Persuasive Strategy in Public Discourses of Healthy Eating" in the Spring 2026 issue of Peitho argues that when healthy lifestyle articles sandwich expert opinion around hedged science, they reinscribe hegemonic nutrition norms wrapped in the language of wellness.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Do you have your own news or accomplishment to share? We'd love to celebrate with you! Tell us about your work in this Google Form to be featured in Feminist Fridays: forms.gle/hfzUJJuxuDiB...

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

McCrary argues that oral history narrators are co-authors of recovery scholarship, offering theories of feminist historical memory that complicate tidy narratives of success and failure in archival work. Intrigued? Read more in Peitho 28(3): wacclearinghouse.org/peitho/

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Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric - The WAC Clearinghouse

Peitho is the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New #FeministFridays in Peitho Spring 2026! In this article, Jessica Edens McCrary applies feminist rhetorical microhistory to oral histories from the Georgia Women's Movement Project, listening closely to how activist Linda Kurtz reframed the ERA's "failure" as progress on a longer timeline. 🧵

Jessica Edens McCrary's article "Framing Failure and Success: Retrospective
Remembering in Oral History Archives" in the Spring 2026 issue of Peitho uses feminist rhetorical microhistory to reveal that what grand narratives call 'failure' may really be progress at a scale our inherited metrics aren't designed to capture.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Do you have your own news or accomplishment to share? We'd love to celebrate with you! Tell us about your wins in this Google Form to be featured in Feminist Fridays: forms.gle/hfzUJJuxuDiB...

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Centering Black Women for WFH and Wages Due Lesbians, Rowland reads the campaign's "impossible" demands through Butler's performative contradiction, showing how they exposed capitalism's inability to properly value reproductive work. Read more in Peitho 28(3): wacclearinghouse.org/peitho/

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Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric - The WAC Clearinghouse

Peitho is the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Welcome back to #FeministFridays! In a recent article for Peitho, Olivia Rowland reevaluates the Wages for Housework campaign, arguing that WFH activists reappropriated capitalist rhetorics of risk, typification, and credit/debt to challenge capitalism's treatment of reproductive labor. 🧵

Olivia Rowland's article
"Capitalist Rhetoric, Anticapitalist Struggle: Reevaluating Wages for Housework" in the Spring 2026 issue of Peitho shows how WFH activists turned capitalism's own rhetorics against themselves to expose the contradictions in how reproductive labor is organized and valued.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Erasure as Exigence: Queer Rhetorics of Re-dignification across Genres and Geographies 11:00am - 12:15pm Sunday, Location Galleria 3 Did we miss your panel? Reply with your Sunday presentation info! 👇

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Rhetorics of Trans Liberation and Ontology 9:30 - 10:45am Sunday, Location Pavilion West Abolition and Rhetorics of the Family 11:00am - 12:15pm Sunday, Location Galleria 2

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Constellating In/Dignity: Polyvocal Queer Storytelling and Intergenerational Kinship 8:00 - 9:15am Sunday, Location Galleria 3 Victimhood, Whiteness, and the Manosphere 8:00 - 9:15am Sunday, Location Parlor B Theorizing Ethos 9:30 - 10:45am Sunday, Location Pavilion East

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It’s the last day of #RSA2026 and we are here to bring you our final round up of feminist presentations! Let’s show our Sunday presenters some love by showing up and amplifying their awesome work. If you’d like to connect with feminist scholars all year, follow us for future feminist events!

The flyer states: "#RSA2026, the feminists are coming! Sunday Round Up. Follow on Facebook @CFSHRC & Bluesky:@cfshrc.bsky.social for future feminist events!"

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Reconsidering "Closet" Rhetorics in Authoritarian Times 9:30 - 10:45am Saturday, Location Galleria 3 Rhetorics of Sexual Violence 1:15 - 2:30pm Saturday, Location Parlor B

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Saturday Feminist Panels: Of Rituals and Rites/Rights 8:00 - 9:15am Saturday, Location Pavilion West Exploring Sex and Sexuality 8:00 - 9:15am Saturday, Location Parlor B

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