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Hello all, I hope everyone is well and making a good start on our new year. I find it a bit awkward, but also difficult to refrain from picking up on the patriarchal language employed in this posting. I think that referring to our community as a fraternity is unnecessary and unhelpful in relation to the gendered associations with this term. I hope other colleagues will join me in an appreciation of language that promotes equality. I am happy to hear about alternative understandings of the use of ‘fraternity’ and other words. I understand that fraternity can be taken to mean a group sharing common values, interests and goals, but it is more specifically relating to a brotherhood, and seems to have evolved in language to refer to everyone regardless of gender, in a similar way to how ‘he’ is sometimes used in text as a generic pronoun. I think that in our context this risks ignoring the history of psychological research in which male (often white, often western educated, largely heterosexual) norms are taken for granted as the norm in relation to psychological measurements and standards against which alternative presentations are construed as deviant, and as a result of this, other groups can easily be marginalised, pathologised and disempowered. I know my own use of language is often lazy, uncritical and built on pernicious assumptions, and I do appreciate critique that helps me to reflect on how my words can have a negative effect on others and myself and the inequalities we experience. Thanks for your thoughts on this (here I will resist referring to you all as my sisters). With warm wishes, Wendy From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Burton Sent: 11 January 2016 13:01 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Fwd: ICCP2016 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: ICCP2016 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:48:07 +0000 From: ICCP2016 <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Having trouble viewing this correctly? Click here to view it safely online. Image removed by sender. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED Dear Mark The Abstract Submission Deadline Has been extended to Monday, 8 February 2016 So we invite the global fraternity of psychologists, activists, researchers and students to make their abstract submissions as soon as possible and contribute to enacting the conference as a re-shaping and re-defining moment. Affirming and troubling global and localised events all point to the significance of understanding the knowledge creation-community-liberation nexus. We look to submissions that will support the enactment of ICCP2016 as a liberatory dialogic space. We look forward to hosting you in South Africa in 2016. Click Here to submit your Abstract Sincerely Mohamed Seedat, Conference Chair Image removed by sender. If you do not wish to receive future UNISA information please click here Confidentiality Note: This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and legally privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by replying and destroy all copies of the original message. Image removed by sender.Image removed by sender. ___________________________________ The list is jointly managed by David Fryer [log in to unmask] and Grant Jeffrey [log in to unmask], either of whom are able to deal with queries. To unsubscribe or to change your details on this COMMUNITYPSYCHUK list, visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMMUNITYPSYCHUK ___________________________________ The list is jointly managed by David Fryer [log in to unmask] and Grant Jeffrey [log in to unmask], either of whom are able to deal with queries. To unsubscribe or to change your details on this COMMUNITYPSYCHUK list, visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMMUNITYPSYCHUK