2 Calls for Submissions!
Passing 'em along for Joe. :)
IDKE.X Conference Call for Submissions
More than a decade of grassroots networking will have passed when IDKE.X ROUNDTRIP HOME kicks off its first event on October 16, 2008. This year's focus is set to expound upon and illuminate the topic of cultural depots and queer destinations. We are looking for proposals that critically address issues related to gender, including documented accounts of our historical presence as gender-queer beings; gender performance beyond the scope of the stage; gender and queer theory; mass popular culture and critical race theories; gender-queer community viability; the function of familial relations both past and present; King community health & wellness. If this sounds interesting to you, then share your thoughts, work, and energy with the IDKE.X King community.
Whether it is a response paper, term paper, thesis draft, panel presentation, roundtable discussion, workshop, or demonstration, we want you! Please consider these questions as points of departure for what is certain to be a fantastic conference. Where they take you, we can hardly wait to see!
Where role have drag kings had in the queer/lgbt community in the last decade?
Who have we seen/become and how does this impact our future and our youth?
Where/what are the cultural depositories for our "drag king community" memoirs?
What role does (or should) documentation have in the gender-queer and drag king community? What is our collective gender-queer legacy?
What roles do politics and feminism have in the drag king community and what roles do they have on the stage?
How is king community maintained off stage? What sustains it and what purpose does it serve?
What happens to butch identity in the king community?
What is the role and effect of femininity (both FTF and MTF) in queer spaces?
How do transmen negotiate the LGBT and king communities and the stage?
How does appropriation (racial, ethnic, religious, etc) affect the king community and expectations and understandings of diversity in the community?
The workshops/presentations will be featured during the daytime sessions of the Academic portion of the conference on Friday, Oct. 17, 10am- 3pm and Saturday, Oct. 18, 9am-4pm, 2008. There are 28 sessions, & session is 50 minutes long.
We will accept proposals May 1st-August 1st or until full. You will receive notice of acceptance August 20th, 2008.
Please email your proposals to idkexcolumbus@yahoo.com or mail to:
FFP-Attn: IDKE X Academic Conference
1160 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43201
Be sure to put "Academic Proposal" and your name in the subject line or lower portion of the front of the envelope.
Guidelines
1) IDKE.X Roundtrip Home: Cultural Depots & Queer Destinations is the theme to keep in mind.
2) If there are multiple submissions about the same topic, we may approach you about participating on a moderated panel.
3) Be specific in your proposal. What specifically are you offering IDKE.X?
4) Proposal length: 300 words or less.
For more information please contact Miz Ginger Jones at miz_ginger.jones@yahoo.com
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Call for Submissions for Spilling Over: A Fat, Queer Anthology
As fat studies begins to emerge as a viable academic location of inquiry, questions surface as to how fat bodies, deemed "excessive" in their trespasses of size and space, create even more complex subject positions when compounded by queer desires. This proposed anthology seeks contributions addressing junctions of "fat" and "queer" in pieces that consider the representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality and also writings considering the theoretical conceptions of these intricate subjectivities.
By December 1, 2008, please send your 2,000 - 6,000 word submission of scholarly writing, creative non-fiction or essay, along with your complete contact information and a 50-100 word biography, to spillingover@gmail.com with the subject line of "Spilling Over - Submission." Submissions must be received in 12 point Times New Roman font and sent in via Word documents (PDFs will not be accepted). Pieces will be reviewed and decisions made by April 2009.