[IGALA] Gender and Language: A farewell, a thank you, and a welcome

[Rodrigo Borba]

Dear IGALA colleagues,

We are writing to share the publication of Gender & Language 19.3, now
available online:

https://utppublishing.com/toc/gl/current

This issue is especially meaningful to us, as it marks the final issue of
the journal under the coeditorship of Kira Hall, Mie Hiramoto, and me,
bringing to a close six years of collective editorial work (2019–2025). It
has been an honour to steward the journal during a period marked by
profound intellectual ferment alongside global upheaval, crisis, and
transformation.

We'd like to invite you to read our farewell editorial, which closes our
tenure with what we describe as an anticipatory retrospective. Rather than
offering a simple backward glance, the editorial reflects on the
orientations, commitments, and affects that have shaped the journal during
these years, foregrounding stubbornness as a trans-queer-feminist mode of
scholarly and political future-making. We reflect on stubbornness not as
rigidity, but as an ethical and affective commitment to persist, to refuse
erasure, and to continue imagining otherwise in inhospitable times.

Our deepest thanks go to the authors, reviewers, editorial board members,
guest editors, and the broader IGALA community. Your intellectual
generosity, critical engagement, and trust made this work not only possible
but genuinely sustaining. Editing Gender & Language has been one of the
most demanding and rewarding collective projects of our academic lives.

At the same time, we are delighted to welcome the new coeditors of Gender &
Language: Farhana Abdul Fatah, Sandhya K. Narayanan, and Lexi Webster. We
are confident that the journal is in exceptionally thoughtful and capable
hands, and we very much look forward to seeing how their editorial vision
will continue to expand, challenge, and reanimate the field.

Thank you for accompanying us over these past six years, and for continuing
to support Gender & Language as a key space for critical, engaged, and
transformative scholarship.

With gratitude and solidarity,

Rodrigo Borba

(on behalf of the outgoing coeditors)

Kira Hall, Mie Hiramoto, and Rodrigo Borba
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