**Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research: Editors and Authors Dialogue about a Beyond Now

This panel showcases a discussion between editors and authors who are published in the fall 2025QSE special issue (SI), “Beyond Now: Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research Futures in Education.” This SI featured ten critical qualitative methodological articles that questioned and responded to traditionalist research assumptions, practice meta narratives, and taken-for-granted classed, gendered, and racialized scripts. Curated across disciplinary, generational, and professional backgrounds, panelists will engage in a dialogue about the necessity of feminist political, policy, and research futures beyond now—a horizon of possibility that resists the constraints of the present and insists on future-making grounded in abolitionist, decolonial, and feminist commitments. Mindful of our current regressive political moment, this dialogue is fueled by the kind of renewal, repair, and remedy that feminist and other critical praxes offer educative spaces and the commons.