Editorial

Abstract

A new issue of Polémicas Feministas is born and this invites us to reflect on the events that marked us in this period, an intense year. A long and complex 2022 marked by bright landmarks and challenges for feminist collective action in academic spaces and activisms. A 2022 marked by a national, regional and international scenario that combines inflationary processes of differential scale and impact, with increasing forms of violence that became manifest, in an extreme form, in the shocking case of the attempted assassination of the Argentinean Vice President Cristina Fernández and in the expressions of racist, sexist and homophobic violence of Brazilian Bolsonarism. All of which, as a whole, renews a series of political, cultural and affective challenges when it comes to resisting and deactivating extreme forms of oppression, some of which are already well known to feminisms and dissidents, but others of which have been intensified in unsuspected ways. Circumstances that, in short, call for an urgent and immediate willingness to articulate and listen, over the accentuation of what separates and stuns. In this scenario, from this new issue of Polémicas Feministas we renew our hopes in the way we can: by making available a singular space for writing, conversation, dispute and creation. And the overwhelming proof of the need for this instance was the reception of more than 30 works which, after peer review, were mostly distributed in the different sections of the journal, headed by the Dossier: "Gender, Affections, Fiction". We also publish Tributes to our great writers who are no longer with us, but whose legacy remains active in our political and academic practices: Angélica Gorodischer, Francesca Gargallo and bell hooks. We also have essays, free articles, and incipient research, an unpublished and necessary translation by the great anthropologist Esther Newton and a Production of Knowledge from Art by the Cordovan collective Bordamos por la Paz. Finally, a publishing novelty brought together in the premiere section: La Polémica. As a way of promoting our name, we invite local referents to discuss a theme - in this issue, a theme linked to the Dossier on practices known by their English names as pinkwashing and queerbaiting - and then open it up to the reading public. Those who are interested can participate from our website, following the link provided in the summary of La Polémica.