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January 2026

  1. The New Woman and Visual Resistance: A Feminist Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Hard Labor
    doi:10.37514/pei-j.2026.28.2.22
  2. Contemporary Mural Art, Personhood, and Utopic Visions of Reproductive Justice
    Abstract

    This essay argued that, in the post-Dobbs era, reproductive justice-themed mural art serves a memorializing function as well as a site of utopic imagining in a time of declining access to reproductive healthcare. The author has used personal experience as a clinic escort to ground a visual rhetorical analysis of three reproductive justice-themed murals across the United States. The essay has identified recurring aesthetic elements in the murals’ compositions, including the female gaze, flowers in bloom, haloes, bold directional symbols, and affirming text. Drawing on reproductive justice scholarship and feminist rhetorical theories of place, the author argued that these aesthetic elements counter fetal personhood rhetoric and assert reproductive justice principles.

    doi:10.37514/pei-j.2026.28.2.17
  3. Materiality of Memory: Firelei Báez & A Path Toward Feminist Visual Rhetorics
    doi:10.37514/pei-j.2026.28.2.19

January 2025

  1. Deconstructing The Body Papers: Multimodal Memoir as Feminist Archival Practice
    doi:10.37514/pei-j.2025.27.2.18
  2. Pain and Relief Come of Themselves: A Digital, Multimodal, Fictocritical Archive
    doi:10.37514/pei-j.2025.27.2.19