Conference Web Site: http://www.now.org/organization/conference/2010/
“Loving Our Bodies, Changing the World” is the theme of the 2010 National NOW Conference, and this year’s event features a summit on health and body image issues.
CFP # 1: Embracing Fat-Positive Feminism: Gender Freedom, Size Acceptance and Social Change
For this panel, I am seeking two other folks with an interest in talking about the intersections of fat liberation and feminism. I am particularly interested in activists working for feminist and fat social change, and scholars working in the fields of women’s/gender studies and fat studies. The panelists would talk about their scholarly, activist and policy work and discuss how feminism needs to coalesce more with the fat rights movement, and vice verse. We will discuss the so-called “war on obesity” and the need to mobilize size-positive and feminist communities to fight back against fatphobia and show that fat liberation is a feminist issue. I particularly seek abstracts that include an intersectional analysis that also takes into account issues of race, ethnicity, class, disability and other categories.
If you are interested, please send me an email (Joelle.Ryan@unh.edu ) ASAP (no later than April 19) with a short abstract about your presentation for the panel and full contact info.
(See http://www.now.org/organization/conference/2010/workshop-proposal.html for the info that I will be required to enter when I do the submission.)
CFP # 2: Transgender Feminism: Activist Approaches to Fostering Inclusion, Justice and Transformation
For this panel, I am seeking two other folks who are interested in talking about transfeminism from both theoretical and activist standpoints. In particular, I am interested in how transfeminist analyses can be deployed to make concrete changes in institutions, organizational settings and activist movements. How can transfeminism strengthen the movement for women’s liberation, and vice verse? How can we combat transphobia in the feminist movement and anti-feminism in the trans community? How do we promote unity and dialogue between diverse gendered populations in order to work together for common goals? The goal of the panel is to highlight people working in the scholarly and activist fields of transfeminism and to use our insights to promote transfeminism as a pivotal critical intervention in the contemporary feminist movement. In addition, we will discuss how transfeminism can be positioned in ways that are not “divisive” but that can promote an inclusive, coalitional!
politics. Intersectional analyses that are inclusive of race, ethnicity, class, disability and other categories are highly encouraged.
If you are interested, please send me an email (Joelle.Ryan@unh.edu ) ASAP (no later than April 19) with a short abstract about your presentation for the panel and full contact info.
(See http://www.now.org/organization/conference/2010/workshop-proposal.html for the info that I will be required to enter when I do the submission.)