Comparing two deaths of female characters in superhero media, Stephens explores the relationship between embodied death and identity.

Arguing that women in cinema bear rather than make meaning, Lake asks what happens when a woman’s death is unseen.

Pedersen demonstrates how Whiteness shapes the trope of the beautiful dead girl/woman and how it has been used to privilege white victims.

This creative article uses a fragmented structure to echo narratives of those whose lives were affected by femicide and gendered violence.

Gardner and Miller argue that women's fate in the Netflix series You depends on their status as 'good' mothers, lovers, and wives.

Black argues that visuals in rural noir texts tend to exploit forests and green spaces as malevolent mise-en-scène to femicide.

Focusing on the 'dying mothers sub-genre', the two authors ponder the meaning of Black women's bodies' absence in film.

This short film demonstrates how posthuman feminisms and new materialism can disrupt practices which commercialise immortality.

Looking at a broader context, Aaron praises our authors for interrogating how women's deaths are currently conceptualised in visual culture.

Our authors reveal how representations of dead women are subjected to patriarchal and neoliberal capitalist discourses.

Anand offers a meditative, dialogic reflection on two opposing sensibilities that have often been aligned with binary gender categorisations.

Ana Šturm, from the Slovenian journal, Ekran, meets the award-winning director, Urška Djukić, to discuss her latest film, Little Trouble Girls (2025).

The author ponders how the intertwining of gender and race reconfigures the dynamics of power in the photographic coverage of conflict.

Sharing a few poems, Bazil presents herself as an archivist of psychogeography, a witness to moments achingly tender and prismatic.

Bottomley examines participatory design in queer football communities as a form of collective self-portraiture and resistance.

In the word obsessed with data profiling, O'Connor creates a metadata of her feminist readings to develop a radical self-portrait.

Analysing two artists, Hana Shafi and Theo Grimes, Willcox explores the role of intersectionality in feminist art on Instagram.

Addressing the criticism of Maïwenn and her work, Tataroglu conducts a feminist and post-colonial examination of her directorial output.

The iconic Bobby Baker discusses her radical journey, beginning from a challenging position in the male-dominated art landscape in the UK.

Comparing two performance artists, Fox reflects on the complex dynamic of resistance vs. vulnerability in the face of hate crimes.

Li examines how Sophie Kahn's use of transformative materials and glitch aesthetics reshapes contemporary women's self-portraiture.

Esmaeilzade analyses the self-expressive art of the Jina uprising as a tool for protesting the systemic oppression of Iranian women.

Having completed First Trimester, his first film in a planned trilogy, Istha meets Oriana Fox to discuss trans pregnancy and parenthood.

Examining Lloyd's reframing of her photographs in the new context of social media, Ruocco discusses her practice as feminist auto-citation.

Moore argues that Sex Education is a young adult text revealing the power of feminist self-portraiture to disrupt ableism and rape culture.

Exploring Japanese women's photography, Cavazzuti argues that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement.

Introducing the issue, Orcutt and Woolley highlight that feminist self-representation is an inquiry into evolving intersectional experiences.

Our authors demonstrate that women's self-portraiture in media is always personal, performative, and intensely political.

The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

Arab filmmaker Heiny Srour's 'Leila and the Wolves' opens in the U.S. for the first time in 40 years.

This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan ...

This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and hi…

With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.

Wilson offers a confessional account on how popular culture's representations of masculinity may contribute to the shaping of trans identity.

Ramsey reflects on the benefits of increased media visibility of menopause in the context of the struggle for justice in women's health.

Kiernan offers an account from her classroom to illuminate how rhetorical listening raises social awareness to benefit students' game design.

Takings pics of her old friends, Rizzo tests Barthes' arguments around affective photography to come to unexpected conclusions.

Ruzanka demonstrates how class application of feminist practice of care can encourage students to push boundaries in their game design.

The year in film: 2024 was the year the film industry could no longer ignore the real world

Nygren explores literary and experienced worlds as 'neuroqueer' to show how they can be used in pedagogy of games and play.

When classrooms have become ideological battlegrounds, the authors devise an inclusive games design pedagogy using crafting as their method.

MAI editors illuminate the need for more feminist voices to rejuvenate the pedagogy in the popular yet male-dominated games design.

Alexandersson documents her personal journey as a student-turned-teacher in games education through the discovery of feminist pedagogy.

Our authors examine the male-dominated HE field of teaching games, pleading for more inclusive pedagogies to depart from patriarchal methods.

In 2018, Noel Nuccioni approached Karyn Kusama, American film & TV director to talk about horror films and today's society, as well as about women and the director's creative strategies.

Using various case studies, this article explores the importance of craft for queer-feminist survival and worldmaking.