Volume 26, Issue 2: Winter 2024

Image description: a drawing by Pilar Emitxin. A young woman leans forward, laughing or shouting gleefully. She has pink flowers on top of her long red hair, she wears a green bandana for a top, and wears a bright purple choker necklace. The background is black, and bright pink text reads:

About this Issue

Editor: Rebecca Dingo and Clancy Ratliff
Associate Editor: Jennifer Nish
Editorial Assistant: Stacie Klinowski and Rachel Smith
Web Coordinator: Hannah Taylor
Cover Art: Image description: a drawing by Pilar Emitxin. A young woman leans forward, laughing or shouting gleefully. The background is black, and bright pink text reads: “EL FEMINISMO VA A VENCER” (“Feminism is going to win”).

Introduction

Editors’ Introduction
Rebecca Dingo and Clancy Ratliff
Tags: Feminisms and Rhetorics De-Conference, in memoriam, infertility, labor, literacy sponsorship, reproductive justice, rhetoricity of work

In Memoriam: Minnie Bruce Pratt

Burning Questions
Benjamin Zender
Tags: grief, mentorship, Minnie Bruce Pratt, pedagogy, process-based writing

Tribute to Minnie Bruce Pratt
Eileen E. Schell
Tags: anti-racist, creative nonfiction, feminist, in memoriam, Leslie Feinberg, LGBTQ+ activist, Revolutionary Communist

The Power of Narrative: A Memorial for Dr. Minnie Bruce Pratt
C.C. Hendricks
Tags: creative non-fiction, feminist, memorial, narrative, Pratt, voice

Articles

Feminisms and Rhetorics Keynote Address: The Uses of Fatigue: Invitations, Impatience, and Investments
Tamika Carey
Tags: Fatigue narratives, feminist futures, Homecoming, labor, listening

Reimagining Sponsorship: Recovery Work, Institutional Sponsorship, and the Nearly Forgotten Rev. Mary A. Will
Holland Prior
Tags: ephemera, institutional sponsorship, Mary A. Will, power, preaching, recovery methodologies, social circulation, sponsorship, women preachers, women’s ordination

Beyond Choice: Infertility and/as Disability
Amy Vidali
Tags: age, choice, disability, eugenics, infertility, rhetoric

Recoveries and Reconsiderations

Asians at Virginia Tech: Recovering an Institutional History of Asians in Appalachia through Intra-Institutional Networks
Jennifer Sano-Franchini and Nina Ha
Tags: AAPI, APIDA, Appalachia, Archival, archive, Asian American, Asian Pacific Islander Desi American, Asians@VT project, Cross-Institutional Networks, Cultural and Community Centers, feminist historiography, oral history, recoveries and reconsiderations, South Asians living in the diaspora, Southwest Virginia, Virginia Tech

Cluster Conversation: Gender and the Rhetoricity of Work edited by Michelle Smith and Sarah Hallenbeck

Introduction: Feminist Imperatives and the Rhetoricity of Work
Michelle Smith and Sarah Hallenbeck
Tags: domestic rhetorics, Intersectionality, rhetoricity of work, temporality, work-as-identity, workscapes

Not Just Doctors: Woman-Dominated Health Work as a Site for Rhetorical Research and Professional Change
Lillian Campbell
Tags: embodiment, Health Professions, rhetoric of health and medicine, technology, Workplace Communication

“You Have Time, and You Should Cook, Tonight:” Erasing Feminized Labor on 30-Minute Meals
Ashley M. Beardsley
Tags: cookbooks, domestic labor, Rachael Ray, strategic contemplation, television, time-space compression

Work and the Rhetorical Enactment of Disability in U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance: How Long COVID’s Ontologies Disrupt the Logic of U.S. Workfare Systems
Kristina Bowers
Tags: COVID, disability, disability insurance/benefits, feminist new materialism, praxiography, Social Security

TikTok’s Excessive Labors: Attention, Algorithms, and Aestheticized Content Creation
Ashley Hay
Tags: attention economy, content creation, digital work, rhetorical excess, TikTok

The “Anti-Work” Movement: Articulating a Challenge to the Protestant Work Ethic
Kelsey Taylor Alexander
Tags: Anti-work, post work imaginaries, Protestant work ethic, social movement, worker identity

Afterword: Rethinking Rhetorics of Gender and Labor
Jessica Enoch and David Gold
Tags: care work, domestic labor, Emotional labor, remote work, temporality

Book Reviews

Review of Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives
Nicole O'Connell
Tags: archival research, archives, Feminist methods, pedagogy

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