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+{\noindent\LARGE\sc Letter from the Editor}
+\vspace{\credgap}
+
+\vspace{\ackgap}\noindent
+Dear reader,
+
+\vspace{\credgap}\noindent
+As my work on this year’s Feminist Edition comes to an end, it is
+tempting to speak of it only fondly. After all, as a philosopher, it
+has been an intensely joyful experience to work with such a talented
+team of editors, writers and philosophers to produce this year’s
+edition.
+
+However, as a feminist academic, this year has been challenging.
+Misogyny and gendered violence against women is on the rise, and
+academic work studying women’s health, lives and experiences is being
+defunded, censored and framed as ‘frivolous’ or ‘unnecessary’. It is
+not. This work – our work as feminist philosophers - undergirds
+general feminist efforts in an essential way. It grants us the
+theoretical tools to grapple with viscerally real problems, and it
+therefore is in times like these that our research matters most.
+
+As such, I would like to extend my immense gratitude to all the
+philosophers who submitted their research and writing to The Feminist
+Edition this year, as well as my congratulations to those who were
+published. Your inquiry matters, and I am very proud to have worked to
+provide a platform where your thoughts can be shared.
+
+I also deeply thank this year’s editorial team, with a special tip of
+the hat to my highly skilled colleagues Kirsty Graham and Joe
+Bradstreet. You have all volunteered your time and brains over the
+course of this year towards the noble cause of platforming young
+academics and helping them develop their philosophical acumen. Thank
+you so much for your hard work – it makes a difference.
+
+Lastly, like last year, I want to express my gratitude to – and awe
+for - all the inspiring women and feminist academics in the Philosophy
+Society as well as the St Andrews Philosophy Department. To be
+surrounded by you all is all the affirmation needed to know that what
+we are doing here is worthwhile, and an academic necessity.
+
+If you made it this far, I must also say – it is with great sadness I
+now leave The Feminist Edition behind, but with great joy I leave it
+in very competent hands. I cannot wait to see what the future holds
+for this journal and the people who work so hard to bring it forth.
+
+\vspace{\credgap}\noindent
+Signing off,
+
+\vspace{\ackgap}\noindent
+Christina Landys Herre
+
+\noindent
+Editor-in-Chief, \emph{Aporia: The Feminist Edition}