Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Volume 45, No. 1, 2024
Special Issue Part 2: Asian American Abolition Feminisms

Contents
Editors’ Note
Kimberly Jew

Guest Editors’ Introduction
Rachel Kuo and Diane Wong 

Sculpted Memories: Apolinario Mabini’s Memorialization and Chamorro–Filipino Relations in Guam
Josephine Faith Ong
Under Attack from the State and in Our Homes: Materialist Interventions and Lessons in Abolition Feminisms from Desis Rising Up and Moving
Vignesh Ramachandran, Jensine Raihan, and Akash Singh 

Private Practices, Promiscuous Archives
Delaney Chieyen Holton 

Combating the Slow Economic Violence of Rescue
Elena Shih 

Muslim Theologies and the Struggle for Abolition
Maryam Kashani 

Napalm’s University: Abolitionist Visions from the Anti-War Movement
Keva X. Bui

From the Movement Archives
Khmer Girls in Action 

We Want Cop-Free Communities: Against the Creation of an Asian Hate Crime Task Force by the NYPD
Asian American Feminist Collective

Envisioning Abolition in Our Local Asian American Communities
Linda Luu, Anna Ozbek, and Mon Mohapatra 

Movement Love Letters
18 Million Rising 

Sick of It! A Zine and Pen Pal Project
Sick of It! 

Reprint
Introduction to “The Cost of Caring: The Social Reproductive
Labor of Filipina Live-in
Home Health Caregivers”
Charlene Tung 128
Cover Artist Statement
Demilitarization, Abolition, Liberation All at Once
Emma Li

Frontiers is currently inviting submissions in all areas of women’s, feminist, and gender studies. In particular, we seek to publish work that continues the tradition of examining relationships among place/space, region, and topics of longstanding concern to feminist scholars that are complexly intersectional, interdisciplinary, and deeply theoretical. We are also encouraging new, challenging formats and styles of production that provoke, interrupt, question, and shift theorization and practice.

We assert that feminist theorizing is integral to analyses of transglobal productions of empire, colonialism, and coloniality and thus equally key to decolonial theorizing and imagining other ways of being. Bodies, power, representation, knowledge, voice, and pleasures are central in feminist thinking and raises questions about how we want to be in relation to each other. The editors of Frontiers welcome submissions of essays, poetry, short fiction, activist statements and manifestos, notes from the field, and artwork for journal covers that represent a significant cultural contribution to the field of Feminist, Women’s, and Gender Studies. Submissions must conform to the following guidelines:

Works must be original. Manuscripts that have been previously published, in whole or in part, or are under consideration for publication elsewhere in any version will not be considered.

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The style of submissions should follow the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, with apparatus conforming to the endnote (not author-date) citation system. Manuscripts, including endnotes, should not exceed 12,000 words. An abstract (no more than 250 words) and keywords (no more than four) must be included on a separate page.

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