CFSHRC EB Response to Cs Dissolution

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The Executive Board of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition has been watching the social media posts regarding NCTE’s intention to dissolve the Conference on College Composition and Communication into their College Section. We too have found this news incredibly disheartening. We urge NCTE to take the time to hear from Cs leadership and our larger scholarly community before they make any decisions regarding the future of Cs.

While we await official statements and clarity from leadership of both NCTE and Cs, we wanted to express our appreciation for the immense impact Cs has had on the formation, growth, and sustainability of our field for over three quarters of a century.

During this painful time, we see the deep care we have for our work and the endless generosity of time, talent, and expertise that so many in our community have donated to Cs and to us all over the years. We deeply appreciate the executive board and Cs leadership for their work during this difficult time.  Any organization is made up of people, and we will persist and thrive.
It is our hope that the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition can be a place to gather, process, and support our colleagues.

In solidarity,
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Cristy Beemer, President
Rebecca Richards, Immediate Past President
Jess Enoch, Former President
Jen Almjeld, Vice President
Risa Applegarth, Secretary
David Gold, Treasurer
Kate Pantelides, Member-at-Large
Leslie Beegle, Graduate Student Representative

Peitho CFP Summer 2027 Issue

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Hello, friends!

Please feel free to circulate! In anticipation of the Coalition’s 40th anniversary, Peitho journal is planning a special summer 2027 issue on “Practicing Resilience at 40: Marking Four Decades of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.” The guest editors welcome article-length and multimodal submissions on topics that engage the practice of resilience from a feminist historical, historiographic, pedagogical, environmental, digital, administrative, and/or political perspectives. They also invite shorter submissions for Peitho‘s “Recoveries and Reconsiderations” and “Overlays” sections.

Please see the CFP here for a full description of special issue, and note that proposals are due by September 1. Acceptances will be sent out by September 15, with draft manuscripts due December 1.
Join us in engaging with and interrogating our understanding of what it means to practice rhetorical resilience at this anniversary moment!

(And a quick, personal thank you to all who completed the volunteer survey! I will be in touch soon as I build committees. It takes a Coalition!!)

Best wishes,
Cristy

Volunteer Survey 2026 is OPEN! (Due Date July 15, 2026)

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Hello, Coalition!

What a year it’s been! I hope the busy academic year wrap up is behind you all and you are finding some time for rest and rejuvenation this summer. I am so very grateful to the 80+ volunteers who have served this year on committees and task forces! What we accomplish together is always a wonder. As a volunteer-run professional organization, the Coalition needs members who will serve to make this organization more inclusive, accessible, anti-racist, and welcoming.

To continue this important work, especially during these uncertain times, we’re reaching out to you to see if you could volunteer your expertise and energy to further these efforts and/or to continue the Coalition’s tradition of recognizing achievements in feminist research, teaching, and mentorship. We hope you will take a few minutes to complete this brief survey and to offer your assistance as we move forward.

Please see at the end of the survey that we’re also interested in asking you about areas and programming you’d like to see the Coalition develop. Our deadline for this survey is July 15, 2026–two weeks away. Thank you, in advance, for your suggestions, expertise, and the gift of your time to keep up the amazing work we do together!

Warmly,
Cristy Beemer
President, CFSHRC and the Executive Committee

P.S.: Here’s the entire URL to the volunteer survey in case the embedded link doesn’t work for you: https://forms.gle/jkNQ4P5SvvzXev1N6

CFSHRC @ RSA Event!

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Join the Coalition at RSA! This year we have decided to create a space to come together during the RSA conference. We will be gathering from 4:30-6 pm on Friday, May 22. We have secured a spot at The Benson Hotel, near the historic stairwell. Hope to see you there, bring a friend, and spread the word!

4C27 Proposal Drafting Session

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Calling all feminist scholars: The Coalition invites you to an informal 4C27 Writing Session on May 15th, 9-10 PT/12-1 ET. We’ll discuss some tips for submitting proposals and spend time drafting together. Are you a seasoned CCCCs attendee who’s already formed a panel? Join us as a mentor and share some wisdom with our next generation of feminist scholars. All are welcome! Register at tiny.cc/Write4Cs.
If your SIG would like to chat with CFSHRC members about your standing group session or workshop proposal process please contact Kelli Gill (kellirgill@gmail.com) and Vee Lawson (vee.lawson@sjsu.edu) for more details.

Peitho 28.3 is live!

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Announcing the Publication of Peitho, Issue 28, Volume 3

The Peitho editors are pleased and proud to announce the publication of Peitho, Volume 28, Issue 3 for Spring 2026. This issue contains three full-length research articles analyzing rhetorics surrounding historical feminist activism, including the Wages For Housework movement and the Equal Rights Amendment campaign, each with implications for archival methodologies. The third article looks to contemporary rhetorics online through a feminist analysis of the ethos of “healthy eating” articles in web magazines and listicles.

Four book reviews offer insights into books that will speak to Peitho readers on the timely subjects of whiteness, motherhood, and immigration. An invited, collaborative piece called “Dispatch from Minneapolis” features creative and reflective contributions from feminist rhetoricians at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities on their experiences during Operation Metro Surge this past winter. Finally, the cover is extra-special to this issue, as Minnesota artist Marta Shore’s crop art piece entitled “They didn’t know we were seeds” represents an activist art form venerated in Minnesota.

We are grateful to all our authors and contributors, and we hope readers find this issue of Peitho thought-provoking and inspiring.


Alt text: Seed art that reads “They Tried to bury us they didn’t know we were seeds.”
Copyright 2019, Marta Shore. Used with the artist’s generous permission.

Peitho Book Club: April 15, 2026

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The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition’s Grad Student Engagement Committee will be hosting a book club to read and discuss articles from the latest issue of Peitho, Volume 28, Number 2.
Join us on Wednesday, April 15th, from 12pm-1pmET/11am-12pmCT/9am-10amPT for this virtual event. You can register at tinyurl.com/PeithoBookClub. All are welcome, but please especially spread the word to grad students!
Flyer announcing Peitho book club on April 15, 2026. Content of flyer is in the body of this post.
We hope to see you there!

CFSHRC Gathering at RSA 2026/Portland Survey

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Dear CFSHRC Members,

This year, the CFSHRC created an ad hoc RSA Event Planning Committee to look into a gathering at RSA 2026 in Portland. They would like to get a better sense of who from CFSHRC is planning to attend the conference, so as to organize a gathering of Coalition members.

To that end, they put together a very short survey to gauge attendance and to see whether members would be interested in a CFSHRC get-together during the conference. Your responses will help us determine whether and how to plan a gathering.

The survey is linked here.

URL: https://forms.gle/7nt4vwvXByyN4SAc6

The survey should only take a minute or two to complete, and your input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for helping us stay connected and build community within CFSHRC.
Please feel free to reach out to any committee members (see below) if you have any questions. We hope to see many of you at RSA!

The RSA Event Planning Committee

Karrieann Soto Vega
Rachael McIntosh
Angela Muir
Elizabethada Wright

CFSHRC Wednesday Night Event at Cs 2026: “Feminist Pedagogies ‘In These Times’– a Teach-In.” 3/4/26 from 6-8pm

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Dear Coalition Colleagues, 

Please mark your calendars for the annual CFSHRC Wednesday Night Event at Cs 2026 on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8pm in the Huntington Convention Center, Meeting Room 203. This year’s event is “Feminist Pedagogies ‘In These Times’– a Teach-In.”

During our CCCCs 2025 event, many attendees wanted to talk about how to do feminist teaching “in these times,” meaning how to build classrooms, assignments, and structures to encourage students to think about inclusion, justice, and writing in the face of so many obstacles. Feminist teaching comprises a wide-range of practices that include: collaboration, community-building, decentering power, engaging the knowledge of students and marginalized people, dialogue, and reflection. The goal of these diverse praxes, according to Dale M. Bauer, is that “The feminist agenda offers a goal toward our students’ conversions to emancipatory social action” (389).

Moreover, as bell hooks writes in Teaching to Transgress, “The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy” (12). At this moment of political and financial uncertainty, as we witness challenges to academic freedom and declines in federal funding, we will use our collaborative space as we gather in Cleveland to share strategies for our classrooms so that we may bring these conversations about emancipatory social action back to our home campuses.

 

The first hour (6-7pm) of the event will be announcements, awards, and three teach-ins. Our teach-in presenters (and their topics) are:

  • Jessica Ridgeway, Norfolk State University, “Exploring Black Women’s Digital Rhetoric: from Silenced to Uproariousness  (A Rhetoric for #JUSTus)”
  • Munira Mutmainna, St. John’s University, “Walking as Praxis: Embodied Knowledge in Decentering Power in the Composition Classroom”
  • Melody Bowdon and Xaria Arthur, University of Central Florida, “Rhetoric, Mindframes, and the Intersectional Feminist Classroom”

If time allows, we plan to have table discussions of the teach-ins following the presentations.

 

The second hour (7-8pm) will feature our annual mentoring tables. This year, we crowdsourced topics from you, our members. Here is the list of mentoring tables and the table leaders:

  1. Writing (and Publishing) a Book: Elizabeth Ellis Miller, Jess Enoch, and Krista Ratcliffe 
  2. Community-Facing Pedagogy: Risa Applegarth and David Gold 
  3. Loving the Work But Hating the Job: Timothy Oleksiak and Patty Wilde
  4. Feminist Leadership: Xaria Arthur and Melody Bowdon 
  5. The Job Market: Kate Burt and Sayed Ali Reza Ahmadi  
  6. I Just Wanna Meet Folks–A Table for Feminist Conversations: Kelli Gill And Samira Grayson 
  7. Thriving In (and Surviving) Graduate School: Aubrey Fochs and Melissa Nicolas 
  8. How To Build a Writing Group: Moushumi Biswas, Amy Lueck, and Jenna Vinson
  9. Preparing for Promotions–Tips for the Dossier and Reviewer List: Jen Almjeld and Lynee Gaillet 

 

Many thanks to our table leaders for offering their time and expertise to us! 

Everyone is welcome at our event: members, non-members, friends, children, family, and the like. Like last year, we will attempt to stream the first hour on Zoom for those who cannot attend in person. To register for the Zoom, please use this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/posQ0j5ZR-aC5SXrf-aeWQ

Please note, however, that internet bandwidth at conference centers tends to be unreliable, and I apologize in advance if the Zoom fails. 

Finally, below you’ll find sharable images for the event so, if you’d like, you can invite others to attend. 

I hope you can join us on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8pm! 

 

Best wishes,

 

Becca Richards, President

Flyer for Wednesday Night Event at Cs

Agenda For Wednesday Night Event at Cs (content in body of email)

Peitho Issue 28.2, Winter 2026 is Live

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The Peitho Editorial Team is proud to announce the publication of Issue 28.2, Winter 2026. This issue features three full-length articles on topics including feminist healing practices, social media food diaries, and indigenous archival protocols, as well as a beautiful multi-genre piece on metis. The issue also includes a cluster conversation on feminist visual rhetoric, which spans a variety of diverse and compelling topics from 1970s women’s magazines to drag queens on TikTok.

 

Photo by Dr. Jennifer Nish. A photo of an orange and black Monarch butterfly. The butterfly is in flight against a light blue sky and field of yellow wildflowers. The butterfly is situated toward the upper left hand corner of the image. The background of the field is out of focus, while the butterfly heads toward a foreground of yellow flowers in focus.

Photo by Dr. Jennifer Nish. A photo of an orange and black Monarch butterfly. The butterfly is in flight against a light blue sky and field of yellow wildflowers. The butterfly is situated toward the upper left hand corner of the image. The background of the field is out of focus, while the butterfly heads toward a foreground of yellow flowers in focus.