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CFP: A QUEER GAZE: MEDIA AND THE GLOBAL LGBT COMMUNITY

Posted by Robyn on January 26, 2012 in Queer | ∞

Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell are seeking articles for their upcoming anthology, A QUEER GAZE: MEDIA AND THE GLOBAL LGBT COMMUNITY. We are looking for essays of about 15-20 pages that address how the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gendered communities are represented both in the U.S. and around the world. We would like to hear from scholars and activists about how these communities are silenced or given voice through the media. Please send all abstracts and inquiries to Theresa Carilli, Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323 by Feb 1, 2012. Final articles are due by June 1, 2012.
Theresa Carilli
Department of Communication and Creative Arts
Purdue University Calumet
Hammond, IN 46323
(219) 989-2628
Email: carilli@purduecal.edu

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Queer Potential is the long-game

Posted by Robyn on January 25, 2012 in iLife | ∞

Yesterday I prayed the following prayer:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.–Reinhold Niebuhr

I don’t really know what it means to pray in today’s context.  I hadn’t prayed in years.  Can’t remember the last time I prayed…yet, these were words that I uttered, the words and cadence that lifted my spirit.  These words became the driving force that altered the energy around me; my body was materialized or constituted in a new way.  I was free.  I was loved/I am loved.  I realized that I have my life back in ways that help me.  It was in these moments that I realized that achieving or reaching my queer potential is the long-game.  Sometimes, as I told my hermana, Dr. Nikki Young, we learn things that help us live into our queer potential.  Its the year of the Dragon, and Nikki has been telling me that good things are in store…The other thing I told Nikki was that often we don’t repeat that hardships that cause us the greatest pain.  I’m hoping that the pain that I have caused others and the pain that I have experienced will subside and a pathway of peace and happiness emerge.  Nikki gave me grounding and heard me into painful speech.  Her support buttressed by weak spirit.

Nikki didn’t act alone yesterday.  My amiga, Dr. Kelby Harrison, was right there with me and held me in sacred light.  We laughed.  We shared in the perplexities of life, and we strengthened community bonds.  My amiga, Kelby, and I will live into the project of queer fidelity, and the lessons we have encountered will serve as rich fodder for this project.  Kelby, you truly gave me a sense of hope, and I am grateful.

And so I echo again:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace…

I’m so grateful that I laughed today and that the hardships I face are only momentary and the community of scholars around me help me (each day) live into my queerness, my potential, and my beauty.  Here’s to letting go, reaching in, and loving out loud.

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Shit (Young, White, Class-privileged, City-based) “Radical Queers” Say to Each Other

Posted by Robyn on January 20, 2012 in Queer | ∞

I can get on board w/ these folks and the awareness they’re bringing to the Queer community!  Make certain you watch til the very last screen shot!

How rampant is trans-masculine centrism/radical queer snobbery/jargon and extreme anti-lesbian sentiment show up in young WHITE ‘radical queer’ communities?

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ROUNDTABLE on LATINA FEMINISM

Posted by Robyn on January 16, 2012 in Race, Research | ∞

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
ROUNDTABLE on LATINA FEMINISM
April 27-28, 2012, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH

Abstract Deadline FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Invited Speakers:  María Cotera, University of Michigan
Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College

You are invited to participate in the 2012 meeting of the Roundtable on Latina
Feminism, a forum for discussion of Latina feminist theory and Latina feminism
in general. Abstracts exploring all themes on Latina feminism are welcomed.
Suggested themes include but are not limited to the following:

*Immigration                                            *Selfhood
*Frontiers and Borders                          *Latina Embodiment
*Visual Representations of Latinas              *Latina Activism
* Group Identity/Cultural Identity              *History of Latinas in the U.S.
*Mestizaje                                                      *Mulataje
*Latina Sexualities                                     *Epistemology
*Queer Latinidad                                        *Latina Theology
*Latina Pedagogy                                        *Latina Aesthetics
*Latina Literary Theory                         *Coalitions across difference
*Works on individual Latina/Chicana feminist writers and theorists

Guidelines for Sumission:
1.      Abstracts should be approximately 1000 words.
2.      Abstracts should be suitable for anonymous review.  In a separate
document, please include your name, affiliation, contact information, brief bio,
and the title of your presentation.
3.      Please submit all proposals electronically to Mariana Ortega at
mortega@jcu.edu. Please note “Roundtable Submission” in the subject line.
4.      For more information on past roundtables go to  http://sites.jcu.edu/lfr/

If you have any questions about the roundtable please contact Mariana Ortega at
mortega@jcu.edu

Please Note:  Participants are expected to attend all sessions of the Roundtable

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Chimeras, domestication of genetic engineering, and the death of Evolution

Posted by Robyn on January 14, 2012 in Ethics, Technology | ∞

Today I listened to Radiolab on NPR.  It was a fascinating show today about chimeras!  If you have a chance, check out the episode.  The episode is “Mix & Match.”

I have some thoughts about the episode that I’d like to put down here in blogging.

As someone who tends to think about creativity and generativity, I wonder about the domestication of genetic engineering and biotechnology.  What are the implications of the intentional creation/procurement of chimeras?  I value reality of “mixing” and likely think we can’t get away from it, but what does it mean for us to “push” embryos together to make a geep? (A geep is a mixture of a sheep and a goat, and is a chimera.)  What about when the embryos of twins are pushed together in utero and the fetus that is born actually has 2 sets of DNA?  And, furthermore, what of the domestication of genetic engineering?

Are we at the end of Evolution and are, in fact, being creative with the notion of life? Are we all participating in creating life?  Today we can buy DNA dust to create living or organic things.  What does this mean for the question of “life?”  Does life have a much more broader meaning?  Have we evolved into this stage of scientific inquiry?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, but found this episode to provoke lots of ethical questions that are yet lingering in my mind!  And, I am a mixed-raced person, but I am no chimera.  Or, am I?

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The Transgender Roundtable @ Pacific School of Religion’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry

Posted by Robyn on January 11, 2012 in Queer, Religion | ∞

Well, I’ve just had my 1st conference call with members of the CLGS’s Transgender Roundtable.  I’m honored to be a apart of this very engaged group and look forward to the work we will do together.  If you are reading this blog, then perhaps you can leave a comment on what work this Roundtable should do!  I’d like to hear from folks in the community who have concerns about the visibility of Transgendered folks, how ever Trans is materialized.

Please consider commenting, and keep in touch on this blog to hear of what the Roundtable will do!

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The discipline of Blogging

Posted by Robyn on January 4, 2012 in iLife | ∞

I have found it a challenge to blog on a regular basis.  As I enter into the dissertation stage of my degree, I wonder how I can incorporate the “stream of consciousness” and more personal reflection writing with the academic writing that I am doing?  I don’t have a quick answer other than perhaps choosing each week to blog about a topic.  With the election year getting into full-swing, my guess is that there will be lots to talk about…or at least I hope there will be!

I do think that blogging is a discipline.  For some, perhaps Tripp Hudgins, it is a spiritual discipline or theological commitment.  I am unsure?  He’s just added his 1st thoughts series, and you should check it out!!  I’ve thought about incorporating video blogging into the iRobyn blog.  I did that a bit last year when I went to San Francisco.  I enjoyed the vlogging; I wonder how I can have more vlogging on things like pursuing ideas…

At any rate, I’m conscious about this blog and hope that 2012 gives shape to a more robust blog!

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The MAZE called life and divinely doubting

Posted by Robyn on December 31, 2011 in iLife | ∞

It’s no surprise to my friends that I enjoy getting inked.  And, my most recent trip to the desert to do humanitarian work gave me a real gift in the “man in the maze” story.  I spent time in Pima county, and the man in the maze was a prominent symbol.  Its on my body now, and I’m thrilled!  I’m hoping that 2012 helps me achieve balance in all areas of my life, and this symbol is a great reminder for me to search deep for the real things in life that bring me joy and happiness.  I do love my life, and I love the deep connections that compel me to live life well!

The Great Seal of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community is an ancient pattern. The pattern has been used for untold years in Pima baskets and represents the MAZE, or house of “Se-eh-ha”. The legend of the “Man in the Maze” helps children understand the meaning of life. The maze depicts experiences and choices we make in our journey through life. It illustrates the search for balance – physical, social, mental and spiritual. In the middle of the maze are found a person’s dreams and goals. Legend says when we reach the center, the sun god is there to greet us, bless us and pass us into the next world.

And, one must know that “to believe is human; to doubt, divine.”  As a QueerEthicist who is closely connected to varying theologies, I have come to be a divine doubter.  I value the ways of Jesus, and look forward to this next year to see where my scholarship will go and the path that will.

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How to End a Revolution? — The Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference

Posted by Robyn on December 26, 2011 in Research | ∞

“How to End a Revolution?” – CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE: JANUARY 31st,
2012)
The Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States
April 13-14, 2012

How to begin a revolution is a question that has received much attention
from many great thinkers.
The goal of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Mahindra
Humanities Center is to
reverse that perspective and ask:
How to end a revolution?

The end of a revolution is not something inherently given, but a process
in the making that serves
different perspectives and interests. At the same time, the phase of
transition characterized by
chaos and instability very often opposes and challenges the attempts of
making an end – from both a
theoretical and a practical perspective. Is an end of a revolution even
possible if history is
understood as a constant process based on a linear definition of time and
temporality? What
challenges does the idea of a leaderless movement pose towards traditional
views of political
authority and authorship? What happens when unity and cohesion break apart
and many different
individual interests and powers evolve? What comes after the revolution?

The ongoing revolutions and uprisings in the Arab world highlight both the
challenges of making a
(constructive and collective) end, as well as the significance and
timeliness of these questions to
be addressed at the conference. Drawing upon contemporary and historical
examples like the Arab
Spring and the French Revolution, we invite you to examine the complex,
multifaceted and mutable
discourse that is shaped by historians who define, politicians who
declare, writers who narrate and
lawyers who legitimate the end of a revolution. In what violent and
non-violent ways have people
tried to stop, use or influence a revolution? Which strategies, tools and
techniques are employed
to end a revolution and how are they determined by underlying concepts of
time, history and change?
Through our collective inquiry – by analysing how people deal and dealt
with moments of transition
and by comparing their strategies, interests and narratives – our goal is
to better understand the
phenomenon of social and political change. With this approach we hope not
only to expand the
knowledge of revolutions but also to develop new ideas and strategies that
will potentially prove
to be practically important and relevant.

We seek rich, rigorous graduate student contributions from the humanities,
social and political
sciences (in particular from the following disciplines: law, literature,
history, philosophy,
political sciences, sociology), and even natural sciences if relevant.

Discussion themes may include, but are not restricted to:
* What is an End? Thinking About and Representing the End
* The End Versus Ending – Revolution as Process or Given?
* Controlling the End – Controlling the Power. Attempts of Overtaking the
Protest
* Temporality, Change – and Order? How to Transform Chaos into Stability
* New Beginnings. Manifestos and Literary Narratives
* The People, the Media or the Military? Authorship of Revolution
* Continuity of Power. How to Deal with the Old Structures?
* Circular Revolution, Linear Progress and Permanent Evolution?
* Arts, Religion and Empathy. Lessons to Unite the People
* Trials, Constitutions and Elections. The Role of Law in Transitional
Periods

We ask prospective participants to submit a short curriculum vitae and a
500 word abstract that
outlines the paper’s topic, methodology and argument, as well as how the
prospective participant’s
research interests relate to the theme of the conference more generally.
Participants will be
notified by mid-February whether their paper has been accepted into the
conference. Please
note that participants can apply for a limited number of travel grants.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: TUESDAY, JANUARY 31st, 2012

For more information and submission details, please visit:
http://isites.harvard.edu/revolution2012

For further questions, please contact the coordinators by e-mail:
hcconfer@fas.harvard.edu

Conference coordinators:
Eike Hosemann, Harvard Law School
Scott Liddle, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Matthias Meyer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Ani Nguyen, Chemical Biology Graduate Program, Department of Systems
Biology

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Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy “Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy”

Posted by Robyn on December 25, 2011 in Feminism, phd, Research | ∞

Title: Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy

Journal Special Issue: Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Editors: Kristie Dotson, PhD & Donna-Dale Marcano, PhD

Publication Volume: Volume 29, Winter 2014

 

Hypatia Special Issue:

Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy

Call for Papers

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks papers for a special issue on women of color feminist philosophy.  We welcome feminist philosophical scholarship with the aim of interrogating and/or demonstrating work created within the terrain of these three terms- women of color, feminist, philosophy.  As the profession of philosophy has witnessed a small emergence of women of color who are pursuing academic degrees in philosophy as well as those who find philosophy useful in the service of other types of research and activism, women of color feminist philosophers still struggle to negotiate political and/or academic spaces often acknowledged as “interstitial” or “liminal.”  And, yet, when one considers that within the past decade that younger (i.e. newer) feminist scholars now have access to successful and now classic works of a handful of senior feminist philosophers of color, one can instantly recognize that we are at a threshold of expanding the purview of what it means to philosophize as a woman of color feminist philosopher.   This latter circumstance points to a significant transformation.  We are at a juncture that deserves celebration as well as serious contemplation on the presence or lack thereof women of color feminist philosophical work.   To this end, we encourage new essays that explore the promises of scholarship as well as problems of objectives and/or methodologies pertaining to women of color feminist philosophy.

By women of color feminist philosophy, we mean intellectual work done by feminists who take women of color as their primary philosophical touchstones and/or scholarly focus.  As such, we invite papers on a wide range of topics.  We look forward to new insights concerning the identity and/or existence of “women of color” feminist philosophical scholarship as well as whether and what philosophy and philosophical tools aid or prohibit pursuing and addressing women of color feminist work.  We also encourage essays on the process of including women of color’s voices into one’s own academic work.   In particular, we hope that this issue will stimulate articulation of the diverse truths inherent to the diversity of women included in the moniker women of color, as it is understood within and against the American context or post-racial, post-feminist sensibilities.  To this end, we encourage contributors to explore integrating resources from their particular racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background with an attention to the hazards or victories of such an exploration.   We welcome essays ranging from ethical and social political explorations to metaphysical and epistemological concerns.  We invite discussion of ways in which the label “women of color” translates and/or does not translate in contexts outside the US as well as whether and how it can be re-appropriated and transformed within international arenas.  We also encourage explorations of the relationship and distinctions between women of color feminist philosophy and critical race feminism or transnational feminism including articulations of what makes a work philosophical and how it becomes so.

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2012

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.  In addition to articles, we invite submissions for our Musings section. These should not exceed 3,000 words, including footnotes and references, and unless they are invited contributions, they will be subject to external review.  For details please see Hypatia’s submission guidelines, http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/submission_guidelines.html

Please submit your paper to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa. When you submit, make sure to select “Interstices” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor(s) indicating the title of the paper you have submitted:

Kristie Dotson: dotsonk@msu.edu; Donna-Dale Marcano: Donna.Marcano@trincoll.edu

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING!

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