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
The last three decades have witnessed the emergence and growth of both the disability rights movement and the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered rights movement. Disability Studies has laid ground in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, establishing disability as a vital, viable field of research. Queer Studies has developed an equally dynamic scholarship. Both activist movements grapple with questions of oppression, working to create social change, while both academic disciplines deconstruct the "normal," examining the processes through which certain bodies, identities, and behaviors are normalized. Rarely, however, have the two fields and two movements been brought together, with scholars, artists, and activists exploring the matrix formed by queerness and disability. The Queer/Disability Conference aims to enter the discussion precisely at this intersection.
Interested? Come join in:
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Queer studies scholars making connections with disability studies
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Disability activists engaging in issues of queer identities
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Artists pulling together strands of crip and queer cultures
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Queer/crips looking for community engagement and theoretical frameworks
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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:
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Histories of disability, homosexuality, and transgender/transsexual identities
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HIV/AIDS, cancer, and disability
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Genetic testing and narratives of cure: the medicalization of "problem" bodies
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Intertwining of race, class, sexuality, gender identity, and disability
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Sex, sexuality, desire, erotica
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Representations of queerness/disability in literature, film, and popular culture
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Deaf/Queer issues
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Global LGBT disability activism
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Impact of disability on gender identity and of gender on disability identity
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Passing, Pride, and non-apparent disabilities
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Violence, hate crimes, and abuse
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Compulsory heterosexuality and able-bodiedness
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Q/D marginalizations-Bi and trans identities, cognitive and psychiatric disabilities
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Ableism, homophobia, and transphobia
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Queers, disability, and services
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Blind/Queer issues
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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.
Proposal Information
If you'd like to present at the conference, please send the following information to
QDprogram@hotmail.com or
Alison Kafer,
310 N. Indian Hill,
Box 325,
Claremont CA 91711.
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Name:
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E-mail address:
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Postal Address (optional):
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Title of Presentation:
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Abstract or Description of Presentation (500 words maximum):
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Track:
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Academic
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Community
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Cultural
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Format:
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Panel
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Performance
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Workshop
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Other
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If presenting with others, names of co-presenters:
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Brief Description of Presentation for Use in Program (50 words maximum):
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Access Needs:
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Sign Language Interpreter (Language Preferred: ASL, Signed English, Oral, Deaf/Blind)
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Wheelchair Access
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Braille
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Audiotape
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Large Print
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Real Time Captioning
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Audio-Visual and Other Equipment Needs:
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Overhead Projector
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Slide Projector
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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.
All proposals are due by February 1, 2002. Presenters will be notified by March 21, 2002. Sessions are 90 minutes long.
For more information or to volunteer:
Email QDConference2002@hotmail.com.
On the web at www.disabledwomen.net/queer
Registration information available on website after February 1, 2002.
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