Editor’s Statement:
Quimbandas: Explorations of Feminisms and Masculinisms is an interdisciplinary, fully refereed, online journal dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship related to the exploration of feminisms, masculinisms, and human development issues--particularly as relates constructions and representations of African diasporic identities. Quimbandas invites the submission of original manuscripts on a full range of topics related to approaches to womanhood, manhood, and human development issues in all disciplines. As an electronic journal, we welcome submissions that are of a time-sensitive nature.
Quimbandas seeks to help transform our collective understandings of the delimiting categories of feminine and masculine and to expose the consequences associated with parceling off aspects of our humanity in the furtherance of promoting normative social mores that may prove impediments to transcendence of the current condition. Underscored by conceptual understandings of the malungos--those same-type, companions of the ship’s hull whose allegiance and dedication to one another cut across lineage--the journal fosters understandings of one gender category: that of human beings. Working to eliminate the distinctions between that considered masculine and that considered feminine, Quimbandas seeks to promote that fullest of potentialities that could only be recognized as human.
Quimbandas seeks to help transform our collective understandings of the delimiting categories of feminine and masculine and to expose the consequences associated with parceling off aspects of our humanity in the furtherance of promoting normative social mores that may prove impediments to transcendence of the current condition. Underscored by conceptual understandings of the malungos--those same-type, companions of the ship’s hull whose allegiance and dedication to one another cut across lineage--the journal fosters understandings of one gender category: that of human beings. Working to eliminate the distinctions between that considered masculine and that considered feminine, Quimbandas seeks to promote that fullest of potentialities that could only be recognized as human.