With a bittersweet feeling, we introduce the first issue of JAWS: Journal of Art and Writing under its new name, but also mark the moment where we step away from the journal under our leadership, bringing over two years of working together as a duo – alongside a wonderful team – to an end. Noting the issue’s theme, ‘Bodies in Process’, we reflect on the forms and pulses that have kept us going, that keep us curious, even as the landscape changes shape. This marks a final glance backwards as we leave the evolving, communal thing that is JAWS under the care of others.
Hill-Woods et al. (2025) studied this question.