Image shared with permission by the artist, bracho
The Journal of Festive Studies has published its 7th volume under the theme “Joy as Resistance”. The journal is co-edited by GRSJ’s Dr. Isabel Machado (alongside Dr. Martha Radice and Dr. Andrew Snyder) with guest editor for this volume Dr. Miguel A. Valerio. The entire 7th volume is available through the journal’s website, linked below.
About Joy as Resistance
The cover art for this issue (featured at the top of this page) is by the artist bracho and is shared with permission. Dr. Machado introduces the volume with an editorial called “Joy and/in Resistance”.
“As we often discussed throughout this journey, it feels hard to think about joy as we experience the rapid rise of authoritarianism and witness live streamed genocide and the reversal of hard-earned rights in different parts of the globe. I would argue, however, that this is exactly when and why we need to talk about it.”
Dr. Machado will be teaching a special topics course starting in January 2026 about this theme.
Featured Articles
Two other members of the GRSJ community contributed to the “Joy as Resistance” issue of The Journal of Festive Studies.
Dr. Rosanne Sia (Assistant Professor, GRSJ) contributed an article called “Joyful Defiance in Performance: Mexican American Girlhood in 1950s South Texas”.
Coraline Thomas (GRSJ graduate student) contributed the article “Radical Joy: To Choose Every Day to Love”.
Citations
The Journal of Festive Studies (ISSN 2641–9939) is a peer-reviewed open access journal from H-Celebration, a network of H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, and is the inaugural journal published through the H-Net Journals initiative. It can be found online at https://journals.h-net.org/jfs.
Machado, Isabel. “Joy and/in Resistance.” Journal of Festive Studies 7 (2025): 7–10. https://www.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2025.7.1.487.
Sia, Rosanne. “Joyful Defiance in Performance: Mexican American Girlhood in 1950s South Texas.” Journal of Festive Studies 7 (2025): 147–162. https://www.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2025.7.1.295.
Thomas, Caroline. “Radical Joy: To Choose Every Day to Love.” Journal of Festive Studies 7 (2025): 287–296. https://www.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2025.7.1.354.
