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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:31:42 -0800
From: Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
Disability and Queerness Conference
January 2002 update
Well, it’s not only happening – it’s happening fast. With less than 6
months to go to the first international Disability and Queerness conference,
lots of activity is going on. Here is the first of many conference updates.
CONFERENCE DETAILS AT A GLANCE
DATES: June 2-3,2002 (with housing available June 1-4,2002)
LOCATION: San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California USA
SPONSORS:
Primary Sponsors: San Francisco State University's: Disability
Programs and Resource Center; Human Sexuality Studies Program; and the
Institute on Disability. Disabled Women's Alliance, a project of the San
Francisco Women's Centers, Inc.
Additional Sponsors: University of California at Berkeley's
Disability Studies Program, National Lesbian Rights Center
PROGRAM: To submit a proposal for the conference, see the CFP at:
www.disabledwomen.net/queer
COST: still be determined, but with your donations, it will hopefully be
$50-100 sliding scale
DONATIONS: To put on an accessible conference is very expensive
($10,000-14,000 per day). San Francisco State University has donated a lot.
But we need YOUR HELP. Every dollar counts.
GOAL: $25,000
Raised: $1,000 from the National Center for Lesbian Rights
Promised: Conference organizers will raise $1,000 each * 6 = $6,000
HOUSING: San Francisco State University will provide very low cost housing
for conference participants
VOLUNTEERS: This conference is an all-volunteer effort. If you can, we
have many opportunities for volunteering from anywhere in the world. If you
can volunteer, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] and say
you are available to volunteer
CONTACT US:
General: [log in to unmask]
Volunteer: [log in to unmask]
Program/proposals: [log in to unmask]
Financial Donations: Mail to: QD/D.W.A., PO Box 6008, Albany, CA 94706-6008
CONFERENCE INFO IN DEPTH
PROGRAM
In the last three decades, disabled people and lesbian/gay/bisexual/
transgendered people have taken to the streets and entered academia. We
have built movements for social change, created culture and community, and
shaped our own theories and analyses. Within these movements, however, the
joint identities of disabled queers have gone unnoticed; rarely have the
issues, concerns, and experiences of queer disabled people been placed
front and center. Fortunately, this situation is changing: queer disabled
people are beginning to create community, develop leadership, and conceive
strategies for challenging societal prejudice and ignorance. In this
spirit, the Queer/Disability Conference aims to bring together artists,
activists, and scholars to explore the matrix formed by queerness and
disability.
This two day conference will address a variety of issues important to the
queer disability community, including: violence, hate crimes, and abuse;
global LBGT activism; sexuality and queer disabled people; ableism,
homophobia, and transphobia; cultural representations of disabled queers;
HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and disability; and intersections of race, class,
sexuality, gender identity, and disability. Although presentations by
academics and scholars will play an integral role in the conference, equal
emphasis will be given to queer disability activists engaged in social
change and artists committed to creating a vital queer crip culture. The
program will encompass a wide variety of presentation formats: workshops,
performances, poetry readings, displays of artwork, and paper panels. To
submit a proposal for the program: www.disabledwomen.net/queer To
communicate with the program staff: [log in to unmask]
COST:
It will hopefully be $50-100 sliding scale. We are determined to have an
economically accessible conference. The vast majority of people with
disabilities are not employed (the actual figure is between 76-90%
unemployment depending on the source). That means that most of our audience
will be unable to attend the conference if the cost is very high, since they
will also have to pay for housing and transportation, plus any disability
related expenses like attendants. The national U.S. statistics is that even
when disabled people work, their annual income is less than $18,000 (and
that is the high end).
DONATIONS
San Francisco State University, which has generously donated meeting space.
Organized entirely by volunteers, the conference has already garnered
support from the Disabled Women’s Alliance, a Bay Area nonprofit
organization, John Killacky, the Director of the Yerba Buena Arts Center,
and the Disability Studies Program at the University of California,
Berkeley. Most of our funding support to date is in the form of in-kind and
volunteer donations. Since one of our primary goals is to make the
conference accessible to low-income people and youth, we seek additional
funding in order to provide registration, travel, and housing scholarships
to low-income attendees. In order to have a fully-accessible conference, we
also require funding for interpreters and other assistive technology.
WE ARE ASKING FOR DONATIONS. If you are well networked, we are asking
that you commit to raising $1,000 for the conference. If 25 people do
this, we will have full conference funding.
To raise $1,000, you can ask:
10 people for $100
OR 50 people for $ 20
OR 100 people for $10
If you want to donate directly, please send a check to: QD/D.W.A., PO Box
6008, Albany, CA 94706-6008
D.W.A./SFWC,Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Tax ID #: 94-1730620
HOUSING:
Housing will be available for less than $30/nite per person on the campus
of San Francisco State University. It will be in the dormitories, most of
which are grouped into apartments with private bathrooms. Since we will
be the only group using the dormitories at that time, we expect that many
informal activities will happen in the housing areas – such as caucus
meetings and 12 step meetings and affinity groups. Each dormitory has
group meeting space that is available during non-conference hours.
There is no other housing near to San Francisco State University. We are
encouraging all conference participants to stay in University housing. It
will be available beginning Saturday June 1 and ending Tuesday June 4,2002.
VOLUNTEERS
This conference is a total volunteer effort. WE NEED YOU If you have time,
please contact our volunteer coordinator Laura Hershey at
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*** GET INVOLVED FOR A GREAT CONFERENCE ****
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