Kim Singletary

Pop culture commonly references mental illness (or uses it as a metaphor for a world gone awry). Many mental health professionals “blame” pop culture for sensationalizing and stigmatizing mental illness, perpetuating stereotypes, capitalizing on anxiety and ultimately discouraging those who need treatment from seeking treatment.  Yet a broader examination of pop culture suggests that those

For this special issue, the editors seek submissions that examine class and economics in black women’s lives and think expansively about how economic inequalities and labor exploitation have historically or currently impact opportunities and access. The editors invite papers that examine how shifting conceptions of middle class/working class identities and cultural practices, constructions of the

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples has issued a call for papers on indigenous modernities. Indigenous societies around the world are reimagining themselves, foregrounding elements of historic and/or traditional cultures and emphasizing their ‘indigeneity’. Within the context of Western modernities and urbanization, indigenous identities are being renewed or reconstructed and new conceptions of the indigenous