Referring to Justice

This essay presents the author's ongoing reflections on citation inequity in the field of Chinese gender, women, and sexuality studies. Using the lens of citational justice, this essay problematizes the collective unfamiliarity with Black feminist scholarship within this field. It begins with an overview of the citational justice movement's historical development, highlighting Black women scholars’ crucial contributions to it. Next, it discusses the detrimental consequences of citation inequity on both knowledge producers and the entire academy. This essay concludes by proposing three concrete means of achieving citational justice within the field of Chinese gender, women, and sexuality studies—namely, through writing, teaching, and translating.