In addition to our regular web articles, FEM publishes a print magazine three times a year under a different theme every academic quarter. We distribute print issues for free on the UCLA campus and upload digital copies for free viewing online here.
Spring 2023: Youth
Youth encapsulates significant components of one’s life story. It is valued differently throughout space, time, culture, and environment. Childhood for me encompassed princesses, fresh fruit, monkey bars, and clashing outfit patterns. Youth holds power in its appreciation of energy and the little things.
Winter 2022: Rage
Rage is often associated with violence, expressed physically and directly. It’s something that can be experienced very intensely but intimately other times. Women and femmes have always been expected to suppress their rage. For women of color, emotions are racialized, and we are expected to simply take the gaslighting and microaggressions we encounter daily. Our emotions are even sexualized or fetishized, not taken seriously or silenced by the cisheteropatriarchy. Even in media, rage is restricted in its temporality and who can express this sentiment. In the age of movies Pearl, Black Swan, and Gone Girl, feminine rage is narrowly defined, and within the confines of masculine interpretations of anger. It’s time to radically reclaim rage.
Fall 2022: Icon
The Icon Issue aims to look at icons, iconography, and the ways in which these representations and their meanings affect social movements, politics, history, media, and memory.
Spring 2022: Enchantment
In these pages, my wonderful writers will take you through their interpretations of enchantment. These articles will make you laugh, they will make you cry, or both at the same time. That is the magic of FEM. Without further ado, turn your page and let us enchant you!
Winter 2022: Nostalgia
With almost half of the Winter 2022 quarter online, we have had the opportunity to be sentimental of the past. When I was younger, all I wanted was to be older. Now, as an “adult” I wish to be able to return to the “good ‘ol days,” but instead I just reminisce. Five years ago, I was running my One Direction fan account, ten years ago I was playing tag with the neighborhood kids, and fifteen years ago I was gardening with my grandparents. These memories bring me a sense of nostalgia, what about you?
Fall 2021: Space
When I think of space, I usually visualize outer space with its milky ways and fantasies of aliens. At the same time, our planet offers us our own forms of space. Our writers at FEM will take you on an exploration into these various spaces in our universe. Have fun journeying through conceptual spaces, theoretical spaces, physical spaces, cyber spaces, colonized spaces, and sensory spaces. The possibilities are endless!
Spring 2021: Green
When I think of the color green, I think of optimism, I think of growth. Not the kind of optimism that ignores reality, but the kind of optimism that digs beneath the surface. Spring of 2021 will be remembered by many as a crucial historical turning point that made people feel optimistic. Between Biden settling into the White House and millions of Americans receiving vaccines, on the surface, sure, things seem different. But here at FEM, we know that praising these kinds of optical forms of progress only hurts marginalized people. As liberals praise our “return to normalcy,” Biden has approved the sale of $735 million worth of weapons to be sent to Israel to be used to murder Palestinians. As millions of white Americans receive their first and second doses of COVID vaccinations, the vaccine rollout is still failing Black and Latinx people who need immunity.
Winter 2021: Disconnection
Disconnection, in some ways, is a difficult subject to create work about, because it’s an indicator of disjointedness. How do you write about a lack of a bridge where there should be one, of gaps where there should be links? Disconnection breeds confusion, disorientation, and uncertainty. As a result, it takes a great deal of thoughtfulness and discernment to be able to point out disconnections we’re not meant to be aware of.
Spring 2018: The Anxiety Issue
The world ridden with suffering at the hands of imperialism and transnational capitalism creates a particularly pressing set of anxieties, but anxiety, instability, and non-being are necessary parts of life that can be managed in a million different ways. Each possibility is its own universe, revealing the different ways we can care for ourselves and the world we live in. We should not resign ourselves to the Euro-American model that deals with an imminent fear of death by accepting a vision of the self as always punctured with a lack. In this issue we show that poetic and theoretical investigations of anxieties can reveal important facts and patterns about how objects, things, and people interact, and even lead us to avenues for change.