"On Friday, May 2nd, The ADVANCE Journal: Individual and Institutional Transformation for Social Justice received its termination notice from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the NSF grant supporting the journal. While we are saddened, we are not broken. In fact, we see this moment as an opportunity to continue our work for gender and intersectional equity freed from the constraints of institutional dictates in the current political situation. We are defiant.

"We are only one of hundreds of NSF grants focused on broadening participation of women, BIPOC, and 2SLGBTQIA+ in STEM higher education that have been abruptly terminated. As other such projects are receiving their notices and the destruction of the ADVANCE program at NSF continues, the ADVANCE Journal invites submission of personal or collective essays and impact statements about positive experiences of these NSF grant programs and the negative impacts of their cancellations. This is for scholars working on issues of gender, race, inclusion, equity, and justice through ADVANCE and other NSF grants, such as LSAMP. We are interested in highlighting how these cancellations impact PIs, co-PIs, postdoctoral and international scholars and other participants, institutions, and science itself.

"These essays will not be peer-reviewed but will be reviewed by the journal’s editorial team. They will be published on the ADVANCE Journal site as a blog series that bears testimony to the fallout of this administration’s targeting of women, BIPOC, people with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people within the academy."

Essays should be no more than 2,000 words and should be submitted by Monday, May 26, 2025. "We also welcome submissions of poetry, photographs, and hyperlinks to projects and publications that convey the significance of your project and the impact of the grant termination."

See the complete call and link for submission online.