About the Journal

Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance is a peer-reviewed, open-access digital journal dedicated to the rigorous exploration of embodied knowledge, artistic practice, and aesthetic resistance. Centering Africana, diasporic, Indigenous, and Global Majority perspectives, the journal examines how creative and performative practices function as sites of theory, archives of history, and modes of political and cultural intervention.

The journal is grounded in the understanding that the body is not merely a medium of expression, but a repository of knowledge—one that carries memory, ideology, technique, and historical consciousness across time and space. Through movement, sound, visuality, ritual, spatial practice, and material culture, communities have long theorized their worlds, preserved collective memory, and resisted erasure. Voiceless Shouts foregrounds these practices as legitimate and essential forms of scholarly inquiry.

Committed to interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches, the journal welcomes scholarship that challenges inherited epistemologies and expands methodological possibility. We publish work that interrogates how the “unruly arts”—those that refuse aesthetic containment, institutional domestication, or disciplinary conformity—operate as forms of resistance and world-making. This includes both critical analyses and practice-based research that bridge the academy, creative spaces, and public life.

As a digital journal, Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance embraces multimodal scholarship, recognizing that some arguments cannot be fully articulated through text alone. Submissions may incorporate video, sound, image, and interactive media alongside written analysis, provided they meet the journal’s standards of intellectual rigor and peer review.

The journal is also attentive to contemporary questions surrounding technology, archives, and knowledge production. Where digital tools and artificial intelligence intersect with creative practice, we insist on humanistic and ethical frameworks that honor embodied ways of knowing and cultural accountability.

Ultimately, Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance serves as an intellectual home for scholars and artists committed to documenting, analyzing, and advancing knowledge that has too often been marginalized or misrecognized. By centering the body as archive and the arts as theory, the journal contributes to global conversations about power, memory, resistance, and the future of the humanities.