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Publications

Textual Publications

 

ACADEMIC BOOKS (MONOGRAPHS)

 

  1. Kather, Cara-Julie (2025): Narrative Gewalt. Autotheoretische Essays über Stalking. (Narrative Violence. Autotheoretical Essays on Stalking.) Münster. Unrast. 120 pp.

  2. Forthcoming: Kather, Cara-Julie (February 2026): The Epistemic Violence of Mathematics. Decolonial-Feminist Re-Writings of “the Rational” and “the Human”. Bielefeld. Transcript. Ca. 250 pp.

  3. Forthcoming: Kather, Cara-Julie (Fall 2026): Narrative Violence. Autotheoretical Essays about Stalking. Trasnlation of ‘Narrative Gewalt’. Victoria, British Columbia. Fernwood Publishing. Ca. 120 pp.

 

ANTHOLOGIES

 

  1. Schützele, Lena/Schellhammer, Barbara/Yadav, Anupam/Kather, Cara-Julie/Thomine, Lou: Knowledge, Participation, and Power. Epistemic Injustice and Violence in Philosophy. Transcript. 2024.

  2. In the Making: Spectrums of Sexuality. Neurodiverse Perspectives on Sexuality and Intimacy. Publication planned for 2026.

 

OTHER BOOKS

 

  1. Kather, Cara-Julie (2024): there are gingko leaves on the window. letters to my deceased grandmother. Portland, Oregon. Fuente Founatin Books. 46 pp. (poetry, letters, transgenre feminist work)

  2. Kather, Cara-Julie (2024): Warme Kerne Spucken. Hamburg. Indepentenly Published. 99 pages.

  3. Kather, Cara-Julie (2025): tastes of silence. Independently Published. (explorations of silence with regards to feminist epistemology, neurodiversity and systemic racism)

  4. Kather, Cara-Julie (2025): On the Quest for Histories. A Fragmented Study of Autistic Lives in the GDR. Independently Published. (experimental text that explores autistic ways of life in the GDR)

  5. Kather, Cara-Julie (2025): Dear Math. Letters to an Image of Thought. Independently Published. (A literary exploration of my PhD research: decolonial-feminist perspectives on mathematics)

  6. Under Review: Kather, Cara-Julie: Letters to the Men I Slept With. (a fictional-essayistic exploration of sexuality and gender-specific power relations)

 

 

ACADEMIC PAPERS (PEER REVIEWED)

 

  1. Forthcoming: Kather, Cara-Julie (2026): We, who are not innocent: Autistic Girldhood, Sexuality and Worlding. In: Feral Feminisms.

  2. Forthcoming: Kather, Cara-Julie (2025): The more-than-human bodies of survival: PTSD, Neurodiversity, Sexual Assault and the Re-Doin of Living. In: Body & Society.

  3. Kather, Cara-Julie: The Commonground is Epistemic Violence: Biologization as Hermeneutical Connectivity between Neoliberalism and Fascism. Distinktion. 2025.

  4. Kather, Cara-Julie: Constructing Autism. Norming Thought through Math, Masculinity, Whiteness, and Fascism. Krisis. 2025

  5. Kather, Cara-Julie Kather: To Die For. Modern Feminity and the Quest for Anti-Hegemonic Anthropomorphization. Journal of Ecohumanism. 2024.

  6. Kather, Cara-Julie Kather: Mathematik, Rationalität und Humanismus. Paradigmen gegenwärtiger Westlicher Bedeutungsgebung. Polylog. Sonderausgabe: Epistemische Gewalt. 2023.

 

 

ACADEMIC PAPERS (WITHOUT PEER REIVIEW)

 

  1. Forthcoming in Fall 2026: Kather, Cara-Julie: A Bulletin for more-than human sex: the neurotypicality of consent and the neurodiversity of exctasy. Spectrums of Sexuality – An Anthology. (Publisher not yet decided).

  2. Kather, Cara-Julie Kather: Abolish Math: 6 Lists on Math and Power. In: Knowledge, Participation, and Power. Transcript. 2024.

  3. Kather, Cara-Julie Kather/Nana, Paloma: Revolutionary Intellect. A Conversation on Becoming and Unbecoming Intellectual. In: Knowledge, Participation, and Power. Transcript. 2024.

  4. Kather, Cara-Julie/Agbih, Sylvia/Adam, Nela: Embodied Knowledge. In: Knowledge, Participation, and Power. Transcript. 2024.

  5. Kather, Cara-Julie (2024): Who are you to say what light is? In: Text Power Telling, Online Magazine.

  6. Kather, Cara-Julie Kather: Ein sicherer Ort? Rortys liberale Ironikerin und der Gewinn der Utopie. Leipziger Schriften. 2020.

 

 

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

 

  1. Under review at Theory, Culture & Society: Does one plus one equal two? Notions of Proof in Conversations on Sexual Violence.

  2. Under review at Feral Feminism: Theory as a House: Academic Abuse, Healing in Traumatizing Spaces and Inhabiting Theory.

  3. Under review at Virgina Quartely Review: A Theory of Weaponized Consent.

  4. Under review at Theory, Culture & Society: The Man-centric world is the Mathematics-centric world: Regarding Mathematics with Sylvia Wynter.

  5. Under reviews at Posthuman Press: Love me more-than-humanly.

  6. Under review at Feminist Review: 1+1equals2 and 1+1equals0 and 1+1equals1000.000.000: Subverting Math

  7. Under review at Identities. Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture: An Event of Study: On Conversations with my grandmother.

  8. Under review at the Journal of Applied Philosophy: The Complexities of Speaking: A Case Study on Finding Modes.

  9. Under review at Philosophy & Social Criticism: Mathematics, Rationality and Humanism: Paradigms of Contemporary Western Meaning-Making.

  10. Under Review at the Journal of Gender Studies: Kather, Cara-Julie: Gender und Mathematik: Reflexionen über ein brisantes Verhältnis.

 

EDITED BOOKS 

  1. Schützele, Lena/Schellhammer, Barbara/Yadav, Anupam/Kather, Cara-Julie/Thomine, Lou: Knowledge, Participation, and Power. Epistemic Injustice and Violence in Philosophy. Transcript. 2024.

  2. In Process (at the stage of editing the full manuscript):

Spectrums of Sexuality. Neurodiverse Perspectives on Sexuality and Intimacy.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS AT THE INTERSECTION OF LITERARY AND ACADEMIC WRITING

 

  1. Forthcoming in Spring 2026: Kather, Cara-Julie: We, who are not innocent: On autistic girlhood, sexuality, and worlding. In: Feral Feminisms, Special Issue: Autistic A/Genders, A/Sexualities, and A/Socialities.

  2. Kather, Cara-Julie: Who are you to say what light is? Text Power Telling. 2024

  3. Under review at multiple publishers: Dear Math. Writing Letters with an Image of Thought. (finished book manuscript)

  4. Under review at multiple publishers: On the Quest for Histories. A Fragmented Study of Autistic Lives in the GDR. (finished book manuscript)

  5. Under review at multiple publishers: Tastes of Silence. (finished book manuscript)

  6. Under review at multiple magazines: We, who travel worlds: On time and space in survival. (Autotheoretical essay)

  7. Under review at multiple magazines: Kather, Cara-Julie: What is the name for the forced hand of the soft man? (Creative essay)

 

Non-Textual Publications

 

FILMS (PARTICIPATION, NOT PRODUCTION)

 

  1. Documentary on the German chanel ZDF, TeraXplore (Program): No Intimacy Without Boundaries (orginal title: Keine Nähe, ohne Grenzen).

 

PODCASTS

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  1. Philosopher’s nest – Podcast: S1E22 – Cara-Julie Kather on Philosophy in non-Philosophy Departments, Feminism, and Mathematics, and Sexual Harassment in Academia, 2022.

  2. HUNGRY MINDS – Podcast: Is protection of stalking a question of money, Cara-Julie Kather? (original title: Ist Schutz vor Stalking eine Frage des Geldes, Cara-Julie Kather?), 2022

  3. Catcalls of Halle - der Podcast (co-produced): What is a „SYSTEMIC ISSUE“? (original title: Was heißt eigentlich "STRUKTURELLES PROBLEM"?), 2021

  4. Catcalls of Halle - der Podcast (co-produced): Sexualization of Black and of white women – a conversation (original title: Sexualisierung Schwarzer und weißer Frauen* - ein Gespräch), 2020

  5. Catcalls of Halle - der Podcast (co-produced): Sexual Harassment – Definitions, Experiences, Systems (original title: Sexuelle Belästigung - Definitionen, Erlebnissen, Strukturen), 2020

  6. "Reden ist Gold" Podcast by Nora Wunderwald: Stalking and legal issues with Cara (Stalking und der Kampf gegen das Gesetz mit Cara), 2022

  7. "Reden ist Gold" Podcast by Nora Wunderwald: Talking about pregnancy, abortion and more with Cara Kather (original title: Gespräche über Schwangerschaft, Abbrüche und mehr mit Cara Kather), 2021

  8. "Reden ist Gold" Podcast by Nora Wunderwald: Sexuality, Pronography, Consent, and open communication with Cara Kather (original title: Sexualität, Pornos, Einvernehmlichkeit und offene Kommunikation mit Cara Kather), 2021

  9. "Reden ist Gold" Podcast by Nora Wunderwald: Feminism, Harassment and Visibility with Cara Kather (original title: Feminismus, Belästigung und Ankreidungen mit Cara Kather), 2021

  10. Sirens Collective -Podcast: The Private stays political with Cara-Julie Kather (original title: Das Private bleibt politisch mit Cara- Julie Kather), 2024

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