Editorial Introduction

Welcome to our second issue of 2018—the thirtieth year of Feminist Formations! This year is a landmark year for us, as we celebrate and reflect on thirty years of publishing cutting edge feminist scholarship. Such reflection requires an engagement with the history, as well as the future, of feminist knowledge production, organizing, and resistance—a process we invite you to participate in as we move through the writings in this issue, and throughout the year.

This has been a devastating year in many ways, considering the separation of migrant children from their parents at the US border, the anti-Muslim travel ban, and the continued onslaught of policies from the Trump administration that create and contribute to ongoing forms of gendered, racialized state violence. Considering the history of such events and policies reminds us that the deliberate fragmentation of families has been a cornerstone of US politics, particularly for Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, working-class and poor people, and other marginalized communities. Acknowledging this history allows us to also acknowledge the long history of resistance that has always existed alongside such forms of oppression. Many of the articles in this issue engage multiple ways of reading histories, through archival research, interviews, analyses of film and literature, and within popular and social media. In doing so, the authors detail the strategies of resistance, collective organizing, and coalitions that have emerged within specific communities at certain historical moments.

Our cover features the beautiful art of Wura-Natasha Ogunji, "She moved the road" (2007), thread and acrylic on paper. Ogunji, a visual artist and performer whose works include drawings, videos, and public performances, explores the presence of women in public space. As Ogunji explains, her hand-stitched drawings, made on architectural trace paper, are inspired by the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos, from the epic to the intimate. In "She moved the road," as the title implies, the woman moves the road, rather than (or in addition to) moving herself on the road. The image invites us to ask questions about space and place, especially our different experiences of movement within and through public spaces. References in the piece situate the figure in a specific geographical location, but also indicate an engagement with movement, and with history. The figure represented in this piece could be seen as deliberately acting on the world around her, mobilizing change, imagining something different. Facing forward, arms crossed, eyes alert, she is prepared for struggle. See more of Wura-Natasha Ogunji's work at www.wuraogunji.com.

As always, I am grateful to managing editor, Rebecca Lambert, and editorial assistants, Andrés López and LK Mae. We could not do the work we do at Feminist Formations without the excellent labor of copyeditor Hank Southgate and compositor Jamie McKee, as well as the staff of Johns Hopkins University Press. Thank you, also, to the members of our Editorial and Advisory Boards, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, for ongoing support.

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We begin this issue with a timely article by Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, "The Powers of Testosterone: Race, Nation, and the Regulation of Women Athletes." Karkazis and Jordan-Young introduce their article by describing an image of two white women runners rejecting the outstretched arms of gold medalist Caster Semenya at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on media coverage, scientific publications, interviews, and sport regulation documents, and framing their analysis through intersectional feminist science studies and critical race studies, Karkazis and Jordan-Young investigate how the regulation of testosterone in women athletes disproportionately affects women of color from the Global South. To do so, they introduce the concept of "T talk," in order to "signal a web of direct claims and indirect associations that circulate around testosterone both as a material substance and as a multivalent cultural symbol." Through their reading of "T talk" in multiple discursive spaces, Karkazis and Jordan-Young powerfully demonstrate that racism and colonialism are central to the regulation of testosterone in women athletes.

Kate Boyd, in "Stop Thinking...