Feminist Citational Praxis and Problems of Practice

Abstract:This article critiques current citational norms and advances feminist citational praxis. Through the process of writing a dissertation collaboratively, we developed our feminist citational praxis. We share the development of our praxis and highlight three problems of practice we have discovered. We reject normative citational rituals and encourage authors to center scholars and scholarship that are often silenced through academic citational exclusion. Intentionally citing Authors of Color, women, trans-gender, and nonbinary scholars as well as disabled authors/authors with disabilities is feminist citational praxis. We ground our feminist citational praxis within the feminist killjoy paradigm and encourage readers to develop their own feminist citational praxis.