sjz is lovingly cut and pasted together by the academic program in Women’s Studies at New Mexico State University. Its current iteration is a collaboration between undergraduate students, graduate students, alumni, and faculty. We would like to also include voices from our larger community, region, and beyond in future issues. This inaugural issue centers on the notion of positionality—a term that draws attention to the forces that produce and maintain subject positions as well as to the dynamics and implications at play when subject positions appear stabilized—and features several different works operating through multiple mediums that interrogate the very notion of subject position from its most subjected spaces