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Subject: Call for Proposals-DISABILITY AND QUEERNESS: The First International Conference, June 2-3, 2002 at San Francisco State University
DISABILITY AND QUEERNESS: The First International Conference
June 2-3, 2002 at San Francisco State University
Call for Papers, Workshops, Performances, and Art of All Kinds:
Due February 1, 2002
In the last three decades disabled people and
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered people have taken to the streets and
entered the academy. We've built movements for social change, created
culture and community, and shaped our own theory and analysis. But the
issues, concerns, and experiences of queer disabled people have rarely been
placed front and center. The Queer/Disability Conference aims to bring
together artists, activists, and scholars to explore the matrix formed by
queerness and disability.
INTERESTED? COME JOIN IN:
--Disability activists engaging in issues concerning queer identities
--Queer activists grappling with disability issues
--Artists pulling together strands of crip and queer cultures
--Scholars making connections between Disability Studies and Queer Studies
--Queers/crips looking for community
--Advocates and allies invested in these intersections
We are looking for papers, panels, performances, videos, paintings,
workshops, readings, and more to create three concurrent tracks: 1)
scholar/theory, 2) activist/community, and 3) artist/cultural.
Possible topics include:
--Histories of disability, homosexuality, and transidentities
--HIV/AIDS, cancer, and disability
--Genetic testing the notion of a cure, the medicalization of our bodies
--Intertwining of race, class, sexuality, gender identity, and disability
--Sex, sexuality, desire, erotica
--Representations of queerness/disability
--Deaf/Queer issues
--Global LGBT disability activism
--Impact of disability on gender identity and of gender on disability
--Passing, Pride, and non-apparent disabilities
--Violence, hate crimes, and abuse
--Compulsory heterosexuality and able-bodiedness
--Q/D marginalizations: bi&trans identities, cognitive&psych disabilities
--Ableism, homophobia, and transphobia
--Queers, disability, and services
--Blind/Queer issues
--Connections between intersexed people and disabled people
Sponsored by the Disabled Women's Alliance, the Presidential Chair for
Undergraduate Education at UC Berkeley, the Disability Studies Program at
UC Berkeley, and the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State
University.
If you'd like to present at the conference, please send the following
information to [log in to unmask] or Alison Kafer, 310 N. Indian Hill,
Box 325, Claremont CA 91711. All proposals are due by February 1, 2002.
Presenters will be notified by March 21, 2002. Sessions are 90 minutes long.
Name:
E-mail address:
Postal Address (optional):
Phone (optional):
Title of Presentation:
If presenting with others, names of co-presenters:
Abstract or Description of Presentation (500 words maximum):
Brief Description of Presentation for Use in Program (50 words maximum):
Track:
____Academic
____Community
____Cultural
Format:
____Panel
____Performance
____Workshop
____Other (e.g., Poster, Exhibit, Display. Please explain)
Access Needs:
____Sign Language Interpreter
Language Preferred: __ASL __Signed English __Oral __Deaf/Blind
____Wheelchair Access
____Braille
____Audiotape
____Large Print
____Real Time Captioning
Audio-Visual and Other Equipment Needs:
____Overhead Projector
____Slide Projector
____VCR / Monitor
We are looking for a wide range of people to present at the conference. To
help us pay attention to the diversity of the presenters, please briefly
describe your relationship to, or interest in, queerness and disability. No
one will be excluded on the basis of their response.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER:
Email [log in to unmask]
On the web at
REGISTRATION INFO: Available on website after February 1, 2002
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