March 2 – 4, 2012

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: Sunday, January 15 2012

Submit 300 word panel or paper abstracts to:

elijah.edelman(at)american.edu and dklein(at)laverne.edu

For submission and additional conference information please see http://agreaa.org/conference/

Current speakers include:

Formats:

The conference organizing committee is looking for proposals for panels of papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, dialogues, performances, artwork/poster sessions, storytelling, media arts/digital media, or individual papers.

Commitment:

We are looking for work that discusses new movement strategies for gender [...]]]> Proposals Due: 1 February 2012
Conference Date: 5-6 October 2012
Conference Location: Austin, Texas

Formats:

The conference organizing committee is looking for proposals for panels of papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, dialogues, performances, artwork/poster sessions, storytelling, media arts/digital media, or individual papers.

Commitment:

We are looking for work that discusses new movement strategies for gender justice that work at the intersections of citizenship status, ethnicity, gender identity, indigeneity, nationality, race, and sexuality. We are particularly interested in work that engages and reimagines human rights language (addressing the usefulness of grassroots human rights strategies and/or the harm of neoliberal human rights appropriation) regarding the following issues: Incarceration/Immigration Detention, Forced Displacement and Gentrification, and Gender Violence.

We are concerned with organizing in – or in relationship to – the Americas that is grounded in community organizing, and connected with issues and activism at the transnational level. We also warmly welcome applications that focus on regions and societies aside from the Americas as long as the proposal specifically addresses how the given issue relates across these geographic contexts. We prioritize the work of those directly affected by or self-reflectively allied with people affected by these issues.

This is a bilingual conference in Spanish and English.

Topics:

• Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Alliances among Feminists of Color & Indigenous Feminists
• Challenges to Gender Binaries/Support of Transgender Organizing
• Citizenship/Nationality
• Economic & Political Justice
• Education for Liberation
• Gender, Detention, and Justice
• Space/Borders/Land Rights
• Welfare & Healthcare Justice
• Youth Organizing/Intergenerational Empowerment

Proposal Submission:

Send your 1-page proposal and short bio to genderandhumanrights@gmail.com before February 1, 2012.

Organizers:

• This conference is a project of the University of Texas at Austin Center for Women’s & Gender Studies Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative.
• This conference work is supported and co-organized by local organizations including:
• Alma de Mujer: tinyurl.com/almademujer
• allgo: Statewide Queer People of Color Organization: www.allgo.org
• Austin Black and Brown Alliance
• Hutto Visitation Program: www.grassrootsleadership.org
• Mamas of Color Rising: mamasofcolorrising.wordpress.com/
• Texas after Violence Project: texasafterviolenceproject.org
• This conference work is co-sponsored by University of Texas at Austin units including:
• Center for Asian American Studies
• Center for Mexican American Studies
• Community Engagement Center
• Department of English
• Gender & Sexuality Center
• Humanities Institute
• Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
• Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• University of Texas Libraries

Convocatoria: Re-imaginando el Poder y la Resistencia: Género y Derechos Humanos Desde lo Local Hasta las Américas Transnacionales

Fecha límite para las propuestas: 1o de febrero 2012

Fecha de la conferencia: 5-6 octubre 2012

Lugar de la conferencia: Austin, Texas

Formatos:

El comité de planificación de la conferencia está buscando propuestas para paneles compuestos de papeles, mesas redondas, talleres, diálogos, presentaciones, sesiones de arte / carteles, narración de cuentos, medios de las artes / medios digitales, o papeles individuales.

Compromiso:

Buscamos trabajo que analiza nuevas estrategias de movimiento por la justicia de género que trabajan en la intersección de ciudadanía, etnia, identidad de género, indigenismo, nacionalidad, raza, y sexualidad. Estamos particularmente interesad@s en el trabajo que aborda y re-imagina el discurso de los derechos humanos (hablando a la utilidad de las estrategias de base relacionadas a los derechos humanos y/o el daño de la apropiación neoliberal de los derechos humanos) con respecto a los siguientes temas: Encarcelamiento / Detención de Inmigrantes, Desplazamiento y Aburguesamiento Forzado, y Violencia de Género.

Estamos interesad@s en el trabajo activista que se realiza en – o en relación a – las Américas que se basa en la organización de las comunidades y que está conectado con los problemas y el activismo al nivel transnacional. También aceptaremos las aplicaciones de personas cuyo trabajo se centra en regiones y sociedades fuera de las Américas, siempre y cuando la propuesta se refiere específicamente a cómo el tema dado se relaciona a través de estos contextos geográficos. Damos prioridad a la labor de las personas directamente afectadas por estos temas y de sus aliad@s.

Esta será una conferencia bilingüe en español e inglés.

Temas:

• Los temas incluyen pero no se limiten a:
• Alianzas entre Feministas de Color y Feministas Indígenas
• Desafíos a los Binarios de Género / Apoyo a la Organización de la Comunidad Transexual
• Ciudadanía / Nacionalidad
• Justicia Económica y Política
• Educación Para la Liberación
• Género, Detención, y la Justicia
• Espacio / Fronteras / Derechos a la Tierra
• Justicia de Asistencia Social y de Cuidado de la Salud
• Organización de la Juventud / Empoderamiento Intergeneracional
• Entrega de Propuestas:
• Envíe su propuesta de una página y una breve biografía a genderandhumanrights@gmail.com antes del 1o de febrero 2012
• Organizadores:
• Esta conferencia es un proyecto del Iniciativo Embrey de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres en el Centro de los Estudios de las Mujeres y el Género en la Universidad de Texas.
• Las organizaciones locales que apoyan – y están ayudando a organizar – esta conferencia incluyen:
• Alma de Mujer: tinyurl.com/almademujer
• allgo: Statewide Queer People of Color Organization: www.allgo.org
• Austin Black and Brown Alliance
• Hutto Visitation Program: www.grassrootsleadership.org
• Mamas of Color Rising: mamasofcolorrising.wordpress.com/
• Texas after Violence Project: texasafterviolenceproject.org
• El trabajo de esta conferencia es co-patrocinado por unidades dentro de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, que incluyen:
• Center for Asian American Studies
• Center for Mexican American Studies
• Community Engagement Center
• Department of English
• Gender & Sexuality Center
• Humanities Institute
• Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
• Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• University of Texas Libraries

In celebration of the centennial of the birth of LGBT pioneer Harry Hay, CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at CUNY) and the Harry Hay Centennial Committee invite proposals for a broad-reaching conference exploring key facets of LGBT life and their evolution over the last six [...]]]> September 27-30, 2012, New York City

In celebration of the centennial of the birth of LGBT pioneer Harry Hay, CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at CUNY) and the Harry Hay Centennial Committee invite proposals for a broad-reaching conference exploring key facets of LGBT life and their evolution over the last six decades.

Harry Hay’s life and his impact on LGBT history and culture were extraordinary, and the range of his activities was terrifically diverse. In the 1930s and ’40s, his involvement in progressive politics, avant-garde art, and the Communist Party all shaped and influenced his formulation of the idea that LGBT people were a distinct “cultural minority” who needed to become conscious of themselves as a people and organize for their own liberation. With that insight, he co-founded the Mattachine Society in the 1950s and helped launch the modern LGBT liberation movement. He was an organizer of the first Radical Faerie gathering in 1979 and remained an active participant and inspirational figure in LGBT movements until his death in 2002. In addition, as a gay activist Hay committed himself to a larger progressive agenda, working in the anti-war movement, on behalf of Native Peoples, and within Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition. As an intellectual, Hay devoted himself to anthropological and historical research about the origins and meaning of LGBT lives, social roles and consciousness. His research focused particular energy on two-spirit people among Native Americans and matrilineal cultures.

Given this rich array of interests, the conference organizers seek to gather scholars, public intellectuals, activists, students, and artists who will take inspiration from Hay’s life and ideas in order to think together about several strands of LGBT living. In particular, the conference will explore four central themes inspired by and reflective of Hay’s life and times: LGBT arts, political activism, spirituality and sexual identities.

We welcome proposals for full panels, individual research papers, artistic presentations, and “state of the debate” discussions. While some of the conference presentations can focus on Hay himself, we very much encourage proposals that explore and debate how the questions raised and confronted by Hay have continued to evolve. To that end, papers may be historical, theoretical, contemporary or future-oriented and may address, but need not be limited to, any of the following thematic topics:

LGBT POLITICS:

• Significance of Mattachine and homophile political groups, their evolution, and relation to gay liberation activism
• Importance (or not) of homophile and other LGBT political leaders
• Sexuality on the Left
• LGBT radicalism and separatism vs mainstream politics and assimilation
• Coalition-building vs single-issue politics
• Youth as a political constituency
• Assessing LGBT organizing strategies and utopian goals
• Mapping an LGBT agenda for the 21st-century

LGBT SPIRITUALITY

• Historical, cultural, and religious aspects of the Radical Faerie movement
• LGBT perspectives on religion, theology, and spirituality
• LGBT influence on, and conflicts with, mainstream and alternative religions
• Linking the spiritual and the sexual
• Politics of spirituality
• Connections to the natural world
• Queer mysticism, shamanism and spiritual practice
• Ancient roots of queer spirituality
• Native Peoples’ spiritualities

LGBT ARTS

• Harry Hay’s artistic world: John Cage, Will Geer, Lester Horton, Leftist theater, etc.
• Past/present fears of LGBT artistic power (e.g. 1950s “homintern”)
• Representations of LGBT lives in contemporary/historical popular culture
• Past/present uses of art as tool of LGBT political activism (e.g. Gran Fury)
• Role of folk & popular music for political organizing (e.g. People’s Song)
• LGBT contributions to 20th-century avant-garde and popular arts
• Defining a queer aesthetic sensibility
• Studies of specific significant queer artists

LGBT IDENTITIES

• The evolving identities of LGBT/Queer/Questioning/Hetero-flexible/Trans People and others
• The meaning of gender in the LGBT world
• Homophile ­Gay Queer: differences, overlaps, and relations
• Lesbians & Gay men: past/present/future alliances and cleavages
• Class and socioeconomic issues within LGBT organizing
• Transgender inclusions/exclusions
• Queer archetypes
• Meaning of “gay consciousness”
• Identity as “natural,” “historical,” or “learned”
• Two-spirit tradition and alternative gender roles in non-Western cultures
• The future of sexual identities

For each paper proposed, please submit a 300-word abstract and a 2-page CV for the presenter. If you wish to propose a 3 or 4 person panel, please submit a separate abstract & CV for each paper, and an additional abstract of the panel. All proposals should be sent to Daniel Hurewitz at daniel.hurewitz(at)hunter.cuny.edu by January 31, 2012, with “Hay Centennial” in the subject line. You can also visit the conference webpage to submit proposals at: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/pages/hay.html

We may have space to display/screen some artworks and present some performances along the thematic lines above: if that interests you, please email Daniel Hurewitz at the address above and submit a handful of images or performance selections either as a zip file, downloadable file, or DVD by January 31, 2012. If the latter, please send to Daniel Hurewitz, c/o CLAGS, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7115, New York NY 10016

Presence Power Progress

A National Conference of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders to network, organize, agitate, educate, and build capacity of the nation’s LGBT AAPI community.

For more information: http://www.nqapia.org/

Crystal Gateway Marriott 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, [...]]]> July 17 to 22, 2012
Washington, DC

Presence Power Progress

A National Conference of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders to network, organize, agitate, educate, and build capacity of the nation’s LGBT AAPI community.

For more information: http://www.nqapia.org/

Crystal Gateway Marriott
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202

Highlights:

• Desi/ South Asian Programming
• Women’s/ Feminist Programming
• Parents Convening
• Youth Gathering
• Trans Programming
• Workshops and Nationally Renowned Speakers and Keynotes
• Cultural performances
• NQAPIA Community Catalyst Awards Banquet
• National Strategy Meeting of LGBT AAPIs

Request for Proposals: Propose a session for the conference and help build this important space!

For more information contact: nqapia(at)gmail.com
NQAPIA
P.O. Box 65238
Washington, DC 20035

The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance is a federation of LGBTQ Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander organizations. NQAPIA seeks to build the capacity of local LGBT AAPI organizations, invigorate grassroots organizing, develop leadership, and challenge homophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant bias.

For more information: http://www.queermuseum.com/home/

Pop-Up is 100% volunteer staffed and run. You can learn more about the current staff at www.queermuseum.org/staff. It has always been a goal of the [...]]]> The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History invites all interested parties to join us as we begin to develop community-driven working groups to support the organization.

For more information: http://www.queermuseum.com/home/

Pop-Up is 100% volunteer staffed and run. You can learn more about the current staff at www.queermuseum.org/staff. It has always been a goal of the Museum to reflect the diversity of LGBTQ communities not only in its shows, but also in its staffing, structure and vision. With the success of the last three exhibitions (Bushwick, SoHo, and Bloomington), and we believe now is an ideal time to bring new people and fresh perspectives into the organization. In the next two months, we are, in particular, looking to build internal organizational structure and policies, as well engaging our board of directors more effectively and beginning a strategic planning process.

Core Group: The Core Group is currently comprised of the Development Consultant, Curator, Assistant Curator, and CFO (yet to be hired). It will also include an elected representative from each working group and potentially other volunteers on a show by show basis.

Working Groups: Working groups consist of interested community members who want to shape the organizational structure of the Museum and oversee valuable aspects of its day-to-day functioning. Working groups meet 1-2 times a month to review priorities, check in on project progress, and make recommendations to the Museum’s core staff. Each working group elects a representative to attend core organizers’ (aka Core Group) meetings and report on the group’s progress. Detailed descriptions are available below.*

We ask that all working group members make a six-month commitment in order to encourage group efficacy and cohesion, as well as continuity throughout the production of Pop-Up’s upcoming events.

If you are interested in participating in a working group, please email us at queermuseum(at)gmail.com with your name and the working group you’re interested in as the subject line, as well as a little bit about yourself, your background, particular skill sets, and any other relevant information. We’d love to have your specific talents represented here and we’re open to hearing your recommendations for members if you’ve got collaborators and colleagues you’d like to bring on board.

*The working groups listed below represent the more present needs of the organization, and are not intended to reflect all the opportunities available with the Museum. We encourage people to become a Fan of the Museum on Facebook to stay abreast of additional opportunities to work with us.

Communications: The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History seeks members for a Communications working group to oversee the structuring and execution of a comprehensive communications strategy for the Museum.

The Communications team will share responsibility for the Pop-Up website, listserv, and social media presence, as well as making recommendations to the Core Group regarding best practices. Working group members may also work on press releases and media outreach to promote individual shows or projects.

This group will work closely with the Development working group to create and launch a community outreach strategy to cultivate a strong, grassroots supporter base that affirms and reflects the Museum’s mission.

Development/Fundraising: The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History seeks members for a Development/Fundraising working group to, among other priorities, establish and grow a sustainable funding stream for the museum.

The Development team will be responsible for the identification and vetting of potential funders, as well as writing letters of interest, grant proposals, and funder reports. They will also develop and make recommendations to the Core Group regarding annual donor solicitation campaigns.

This group will work in conjunction with the Communications working group to create and launch a targeted donor acquisition strategy, the goal of which is cultivating a strong, grassroots funding base that affirms and reflects the museum’s mission and target audiences.

Funding Model: The Pop-Up Museum is currently 100% funded by individual donors and local partner organizations/ Funds are raised on an exhibition by exhibition basis through friends-asking-friend style emails and on-site donation opportunities. As part of our strategy of community ownership and involvement in shows, we require that all exhibition hosts raise a portion of the funds necessary to hang the show. While we feel it is important to have a strong individual donor-base, we are also aware that cultivating an institutional funding stream will allow us to expand and pursue new opportunities that may arise where additional funds are required.

Assistant Professor position in sexuality studies and Africana/critical race studies, housed in the Dept. of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Please circulate widely.

NWSA job link: http://www.nwsa.org/employ/listing.php?entryid=635

The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at the University of Cincinnati invites [...]]]> Sexuality Studies position at University of Cincinnati

Assistant Professor position in sexuality studies and Africana/critical race studies, housed in the Dept. of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Please circulate widely.

NWSA job link: http://www.nwsa.org/employ/listing.php?entryid=635

The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for a tenure-track position of assistant professor to begin August 1, 2012. A PhD in women’s, gender and/or sexuality studies or a related field by July 31, 2012 and a specialization in sexuality studies are required. A focus on African/African American studies is preferred; applicants with specializations in critical race studies or ethnic studies will also be considered.

The successful candidate should have the potential for or an initial record pointing toward becoming a leading scholar and generating external research funding. S/he will also have the ability to teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses and to engage in service.

The University of Cincinnati is an urban, public, comprehensive Research I institution, committed to attracting, supporting, and retaining an academically and culturally diverse faculty. The Department of WGSS is an interdisciplinary unit in the College of Arts and Sciences offering BA, MA, and dual MA/JD and MA/PhD degrees. The eleven full and jointly appointed WGSS faculty teach a standard 2-2 semester load. WGSS is affiliated with the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center (www.artsci.uc.edu/taft<http://www.artsci.uc.edu/taft>), which disburses over one million dollars per year in research and travel grants to faculty and students. For more information, please visit our website (www.artsci.uc.edu/womens_studies<http://www.artsci.uc.edu/womens_studies>). Search committee chair Amy Lind will be available for informal meetings at the NWSA conference in Atlanta (amy.lind@uc.edu).

Please apply online at www.jobsatuc.com<http://www.jobsatuc.com> (position #211UC1884). Review of complete applications will begin on December 1, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Candidates must include a letter of application, a current CV and one writing sample. In addition, please arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to Molly Russell, Dept. of WGSS, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 45221-0164 (phone: 513-556-6776; email: molly.russell[at]uc.edu). Applications will not be considered complete until all letters of recommendation have been received.

In a continuing effort to foster diversity on our campus, we actively encourage applications from African Americans and other people of color, women, veterans, people of diverse orientations/identities, people with disabilities, and others who may make a positive contribution to the diversification of ideas and perspectives. For additional information about diversity initiatives at the University of Cincinnati, please visit the UC Diversity website: www.uc.edu/sas/diversity<http://www.uc.edu/sas/diversity>. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

On the eve of the 25th Anniversary of the seminal publication, In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, edited by Joseph Beam, we are currently seeking submissions for an anthology on the legacy of Joseph Beam and In the Life. This anthology [...]]]> Call for Submissions: Black Gay Genius: Joseph Beam and In the Life

On the eve of the 25th Anniversary of the seminal publication, In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, edited by Joseph Beam, we are currently seeking submissions for an anthology on the legacy of Joseph Beam and In the Life. This anthology will provide new interpretations of the late 80s and early 90s black gay arts movement, examine the contemporary political and artistic landscape for black gay men, and explore how In the Life has influenced contemporary critical thought as it relates to black gay men. The anthology will be comprised of scholars from a range of disciplines, writers, activists, cultural workers and artists. This project seeks to build upon the work of In the Life, and perhaps explore where black gay men find themselves today.

Topics might include:
-Black Feminism and In the Life
-Biographical and critical treatments of Joseph Beam
-Memory, mourning and In the Life
-In the Life and Black Queer Theory
-In the Life and the invention of the Black gay soul
-Historicizing the emergence of Beam and his contemporaries
-HIV/AIDS activism and early Black gay identity politics
-Black gay artists/ is there a Black gay aesthetic?
-Black gay men and Black lesbians in dialogue
-Sex, sexuality and the politics of black gay writings

We welcome your participation and we invite you to examine the guidelines listed below. Thank you for your potential participation in this important project.

Sincerely,
Steven G. Fullwood and Charles Stephens, editors
Black Gay Genius: Joseph Beam and In the Life

Deadline: December 16th, 2011

Contact Information:
For inquiries: blackgaygenius@gmail.com
For submissions: blackgaygenius@gmail.com

Please send a copy of your paper, essay, poem, or interview to:

blackgaygenius@gmail.com by December 16th, 2011

Files must be in .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf formats. Files should be named with the author’s name and part of title of submission. For example:

“Stephens_Blackgaygenius” or “Stephens-blackgaygenius.pdf”

Essays, articles, stories or interviews should be between 4-8 pages or less. Poems should be should be a page (let’s discuss.) Please note: the editors seek to collect and publish a monograph that covers a wide range of genres and perspectives.

In your email, please include the following:

• Name
• Address
• Email address
• Phone
• Title of submission
• If your submission was previously published please include the publication title, edition, and date

Thank you. We look forward to reading your work!

Sincerely,
Steven G. Fullwood and Charles Stephens, editors

http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2011

Chamada de Trabalhos: 7th International Gender and Language Association Conference IGALA 7 20-22 de Junho de 2012 São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil

http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/

Prazo para submissão de resumos: 31 de [...]]]> Call for Papers: 7th International Gender and Language Association Conference
IGALA 7
June 20-22, 2012
São Leopoldo, Brazil

http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2011

Chamada de Trabalhos: 7th International Gender and Language Association Conference
IGALA 7
20-22 de Junho de 2012
São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil

http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/

Prazo para submissão de resumos: 31 de Outubro de 2011

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Deadline for Abstracts: 06 January, 2012

This collection will consider how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity (Stein, 2001; Yip, 2005; Taylor, 2009). It asks how these intersections [...]]]> Intersecting Contradiction? Queering Religion, Religious Queers
Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon (eds)

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Deadline for Abstracts: 06 January, 2012

This collection will consider how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity (Stein, 2001; Yip, 2005; Taylor, 2009). It asks how these intersections are formed, negotiated and resisted across time and places: ‘contradictions’ are both privately and publically inhabited in the context of legislative change and increasing, but often competing, socio-legal recognition. Considerations of ‘sexual citizenship’ are still positioned as separate from and indeed negated by, religious rights. Questions around ‘queer’ engagements in civil partnerships and other practices (e.g. adoption) have created a number of provoking stances and policy provisions – but what remains unanswered is how people experience and situate themselves within sometimes competing, or ‘contradictory’, moments (Weeks, 2001, 2007) as ‘religious queers’ who may be tasked with ‘queering religion’.

Additionally, the presumed paradoxes of ‘marriage’, queer sexuality, religion and youth combine to generate a noteworthy generational absence. In looking at interconnectedness, this collection seeks international contributions which bridge the ‘contradictions’ in queering religion and in making visible ‘religious queers’. It hopes to offer insight into older and younger people’s understandings of religiosity (where Anglican-based LGBTQ organisations are also demonstrably those of ‘older’ adults), queer cultures, and religious groups. A small but active religious minority in the US has received much attention for its anti-gay political activity; much less attention has been paid to the more positive, supportive role that religious-based groups play in e.g. providing housing, education and political advocacy for queer youth (see Browne, Munt, Yip, 2010).

Queer methodologies (Browne and Nash, 2010) and intersectional approaches (Taylor et al., 2010), potentially offer a lens both theoretically and methodologically, to uncover the salience of related social divisions and identities: the collection hopes to be innovative and sensitive to ‘blended’ identities and their various enactments.

Abstracts are invited to consider the intersections (and contradictions) between religious and sexual identities, and their possible interplay with other forms of identity, groups, and contexts. This can include, but is not limited to:

• Intersecting inequalities: class, race, gender, sexuality
• Competing equalities, different diversities
• Generational (dis)continuity: past, present, and futures
• Mapping methods
• Queering youth: LGBTQ and heterosexual identities

If you would like to contribute to the collection, please send your abstract (Word document) along with a brief biography to Ria Snowdon (snowdonr(at)lsbu.ac.uk) and Yvette Taylor (taylory(at)lsbu.ac.uk) by 06 January 2012. First draft chapters (8,000 words) due January 2013.
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