Feminist Interventions and Interrogations

We open this issue with two articles about different kinds of playacting. First, we have Alude Mahali's “A Girlhood Disrupted: Performing Memory Using the Girlfriend Aesthetic” in which she discusses her play, Katuntu (…and you too), that she wrote to “depict loss caused by an uprooted girlhood, that portrays the consequences of fragmented memory on Black African women with immigrant pasts, in the hope that it might resonate with others who share the experience of similarly disrupted girlhood.” For her, the girlfriend aesthetic provides a way of “re-membering by providing a reflective surface upon which one sees in the experience of the girlfriend other, something that incites one's own memory.”