About
Feminist Spaces is an international journal of women's, gender, and sexuality studies that invites students, faculty, artists, activists, and independent scholars from institutions worldwide to submit formal essays, creative writing, and multimodal artistic pieces per our annual Call for Works. The online journal is published and designed independently by our editorial board.​
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Originally established in March 2014, Feminist Spaces emerged as the brainchild of the Women's Studies Collective at the University of West Florida. The student-run organization successfully published six issues of Feminist Spaces and hosted 17 annual Women’s Studies Conferences with notable keynote speakers such as Angela Davis, Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Andrea Gibson.
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Following a four-year publishing hiatus, Feminist Spaces relaunched and rebranded in January 2021 by a team of graduate students at a university in Florida. After a year of hacking passwords, meeting via Zoom, and digging through ancient editorial files, the editorial team was proud to present a revamped installment and digital facelift of Feminist Spaces.
However, in 2024, Feminist Spaces made the decision to cut ties with our original institution after conservative laws were passed in Florida. Florida regulation 9.016, nicknamed "the anti-DEI regulation," prevents "Social and Political Activism," which is defined in this regulation as "any activity organized with a purpose of effecting or preventing change to a governmental policy, action, or function." The state accused Feminist Spaces, as an openly activist journal, of violating this regulation, thus "threaten[ing] the integrity" of our prior institution. Our options, then, were two-fold: be silenced or break away. The choice was clear.
While Feminist Spaces does not fault the university with which we were previously affiliated for this censorship, we acknowledge that becoming an independent journal is in the best interest of the journal’s mission and our goals as a group of intersectional feminist activists. Independent publication not only allows our editorial board to speak, post, and publish freely, but it also allows us to advocate openly for women's rights by amplifying a larger number of voices of members of marginalized communities globally and exploring a wider range of "polarizing" topics.
We refuse to be silenced, and we refuse to silence you.
Editorial Board Members
Editors-in-Chief
Sydney Mosley, Editor-in-Chief
Sydney Mosley is a graduate of the University of West Florida with an MA in creative writing, and she has the intention of obtaining a doctorate degree in Feminist and Gender Studies in her future. Sydney has a love for writing and enjoys many mediums such as poetry and long-form prose, but she loves writing thrillers the most. You can read some of Sydney’s poetry in UWF’s creative writing magazines The Spiral and The Troubadour. As a feminist and a creative, Sydney hopes to create a career path in which she can combine her love for the arts. Outside of writing, you can find Sydney baking vegan and gluten-free pastries; pole dancing; collecting used books; or taking her dogs General and Willow for a hike.
Nym, Vice Editor-in-Chief
Nym is an intersectional feminist.
Managing Editors
Farrah Hale, Destiny Herbert, and Lauren Watkins
Associate editors
Ashley B., Ash Pugh, Chloe Cadenhead, Karren Barcita, Cheryl Goodman, Hannah Burns, Monica Mendez, Tamara McAlpine, Lindsey Martin, Melanie Mendoza Gasca, Ashlee Stephan, Gracie West, Carley Woolfolk
Past Editorial Board Members
Editors-in-Chief: Rebecca Namniek (Founder), Taylor Willbanks (Founder), Brittany Hammock, Erica Miller, Dakota Parks, Teresa Scott, Cat Lysek, Kimiko Lumsden, Liz Partington
Managing Editors: Sydney Stone, Jordan Thames, Rachel Johnson, Etienne Lambert, Ashley Byrd, Jurnee French
Associate Editors: Karen Manning, Katie Sundy, Joshua Hart, Dylan Matthews, Sarah Miller, Megan Washington, Carly Cocuy, Faith Green, Hope Hall, Toni Holy, Woodline Lauvince, Maye Al-selwady, Jacob Carroll, Nathan Marona, Evangeline Murphy, Shaundra D. Smith, Samantha Nelson,Kara Griffith, Terry Griner, Hannah Trevino, Fiama Mastrangelo, Madeleine Hutchison, Edith Reese, Elizabeth Curl, Juliette Lysek, Eve Knight, Molly Callahan, Max Pietsch, Allissa Sandefur