Affilia
Affilia foregrounds critical feminist research and praxis in social work. In 1986, the founding editors created Affilia as a dedicated space for feminist voices. It aimed to fill a gap in mainstream social work journals that did not publish articles that focused on issues concerning women, thus creating space for discourses on topical and methodological challenges that have shifted over time. We, the current editorial board members, take an intersectional approach to gender to address challenges that minoritized scholars and practitioners experience in the discipline.
In the forged space of Affilia, we are intentional about including the perspectives of those who are at the margins, the experiences of minoritized bodies, and the contributions of scholars from diverse social, geographical, and theoretical locations. Meanwhile, we embrace our responsibility to trouble our own views and assumptions and to reflect the diverse feminist perspectives driving ongoing debates and considerations. Within our editorial process we are committed to centering an ethics of care, foregrounding relationships, and facilitating the development of critical feminist perspectives.
Contemporary feminisms are rooted in critical, intersectional analyses of the lived experiences of individuals and groups in the context of complex structures, systems, and discourses of power and privilege. We stand firm in resisting the erasure of histories of social movements and liberation struggles. Indeed, we are committed to interrogating social work’s own complex discursive histories, which include harms, erasures, discipline, and liberatory practices.
Affilia publishes interdisciplinary, groundbreaking, and thought-provoking scholarship, book reviews, and artwork that challenge taken-for-granted knowledge, raise new questions, generate innovative theories and methodologies, reflect global diversities, and illuminate divergent, liberatory, action-oriented pathways for social work theory, research, practice, and teaching.
See the latest winner of the Affilia Award for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship and Praxis in Social Work here.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work is dedicated to the discussion and development of critical feminist values, theories, and knowledge as they relate to social work and social welfare research, education, and practice. The intent of Affilia is to bring insight and knowledge to the task of eliminating discrimination and oppression, especially with respect to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, and disability.
| Margaret (Meg) F. Gibson | Renison University College, Waterloo, ON, Canada |
| Sharvari Karandikar | Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Mery Diaz | New York City College of Technology, New York, NY, USA |
| Salina Abji | Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Janet L. Finn | University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA |
| Nicole Moulding | University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
| Bridget Livingstone | Comox, BC, Canada |
| Lindsay B. Gezinski | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| Ramona Beltrán | University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, Denver, CO, USA |
| Xiaobei Chen | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
| Sam Harrell | Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Kelly Jackson | Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
| Kalei Kanuha | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Reshawna L. Chapple | University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA |
| Sandra M. Leotti | University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA |
| Gita Mehrotra | Portland State University, Portland, OR |
| Gina E. Miranda Samuels | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Nicole Moulding | University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
| Sarah Mountz | University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, USA |
| Antonia R. G. Alvarez | Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Nadine Shaanta Murshid | University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA |
| Quenette L. Walton | University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Houston, TX, USA |
| Charmaine C. Williams | University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| Ben Anderson-Nathe | Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA |
| Samira Bano Ali | University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA |
| Stephanie Begun | University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Sandra Butler | University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA |
| Cyndirela Chadambuka | University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Candace Christensen | University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA |
| Carol Cleaveland | George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA |
| Molly Driessen | Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island |
| Marta Graça | University de Coimbra Instituto, Jurídico, Portugal |
| Vern Harner | University of Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington |
| Jane Hereth | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Jocelyn Hermoso | San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California |
| Ran Hu | Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| Sid Jordan | Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Lisa Young Larance | Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Sandra Leotti | University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA |
| Kathryn Libal | University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, USA |
| Jessica Lidell | University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA |
| Maria Liegghio | York University, Toronto, ON, CA, Canada |
| Rebecca A. Matthew | University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA |
| Mahasin Saleh | Doha Institute for Graduate Studies |
| Sunny Sinha | Marywood University, Scranton, PA, USA |
| Eliana Suarez | Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, CA, Canada |
| Emma Tseris | University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| Miriam Valdovinos | University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Jijian Voronka | Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, CA, Canada |
| Corinne Warrener | Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Sarah Wendt | Flinders University, Australia |
| Tina Wilson | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Carole Zufferey | University of South Australia, Magill, SA, Australia |
| Barbara L. Simon | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| Sara Goodkind, Co-President | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Jennifer Zelnick, Treasurer | Touro College, New York, NY, USA |
| Mimi Kim, Co-President | California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA |
| Yoosun Park | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Fariyal Ross-Sheriff | Howard University, Washington DC, USA |
| Barbara Levy Simon, Secretary | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| Karen F. Wyche | The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA |
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