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GEXcel Conference of Workshops – Örebro University 22-25 May 2008

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Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council Centre, Örebro University and Linköpings University launched a project to establish a European Center of Gender Excellence based in Sweden– Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment . In 2007-08, the theme of research sponsored by GEXcel has been “Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change,” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. (For a full description of the theme, go to http://www.genderexcel.org)

We invite applications for this conference of workshops from junior and senior scholars whose research directly addresses one of the following three sub-themes: 1) Sexuality, Love and Social Theory; 2) Power and Politics: A Feminist View; and 3) Common and Conflicted: Rethinking Interest, Solidarity, and Action.

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an image and its message

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apropos of the old “sexual politics of meat” debate…

here is a classic misogynistic illustration used to promote meat by telling us to “break the dull beef habit” (by imagining a woman‘s body made up of “tender juicy” beef cuts);
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and here are two possible ways of making use of that image in order to promote vegetarianism:

  • peta‘s take, which casts a real woman in the same pose, makes the same “cuts of meat” markings on her body and just adds the text “all animals have the same parts”:
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  • an example of what i would consider a critical take, whose message to the viewer is no longer a plea to look at a cow’s body in the same way as at a woman’s body and viceversa, but rather to STOP viewing anyone – human and non-human animals alike – as being made up of “cuts” and ready for consumption, because we all should have the same right to bodily autonomy and integrity (the ecofeminist message):
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    • women and tech stuff

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    because unfortunately the tech-related discussions planned for ladyfest were all cancelled in one way or another, i’m listing here the materials i’d prepared for some of it, in case someone finds them useful as resources:

    Call for Papers: Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2008

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    Call for Papers: Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2008

    23 March – 29 March, 2008
    Mexico City

    Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15. November 2007

    The International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS), AIDSinCULTURE.org and Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City invite the global community to a vibrant and exciting multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and multi-cultural Queer Studies Easter Symposium in Mexico City in March 2008.

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    Call for Papers : Writing Lesbian Culture: Theories and Praxis’

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    (closing date for proposals is 14th of december)

    Lesbian Lives XV: Friday 15 – Saturday 16 Feb 2008

    Writing Lesbian Culture: Theories and Praxis’

    A 2-Day, International, Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland

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    POSTER & PROGRAM LF RO 07

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    afis_lf_net.jpgLADYFEST BUCHAREST
    12-14 october 2007
    “Whatever your fight, don’t be ladylike!”
    – art and grassroots activism on gender themes

    [1 RON suggested donation for during the day]
    [10 RON concert entrance / 25 RON pass-par-tout]

     
    >> WORKSHOPS, ACTIONS, DISCUSSIONS, SCREENINGS
    @ H.arta
    str. Pictor Arthur Verona nr. 19, sector 1
    (entrance from B-dul Magheru)


    * Friday (12/10)
    13-14:30 Anti-racist strategies
    14:30-16:30 Self-defense – gender attacks
    20:00- “The borders of transition”… D MEDIA discussion on transition and post-communism
    ACTION
    18:00-20 Take Back the Night rally (for all) and march (women-only)
    [leaving from Piata Constitutiei]
    D MEDIA FILMS
    20:00 “Paint Romanian”; “Border diaries”

    * Saturday (13/10)
    10-12 Vegan baking
    12-13 Discussions about “women and science/technology”
    13-14:30 Queer vs. heteronormative identities
    14:30-15:30 Discussion/workshop on non-hierarchical, feminist, non-violent communication and group organizing
    15:30-17:00 Maternity and its social and political implications
    17:00-19:00 H.arta: how to address fear and radical reading
    20:00- “Women’s work”… D MEDIA discussion/round table about the work situation in romania and the discrimination that still exists towards women
    D MEDIA FILMS
    20:00 “Made in Italy”; “Eden”

    * Sunday (14/10)
    10:00-11:30 Gender and wikipedia/women’s presence in internet spaces
    11:30-13 Workshop/forum/panel on prostitution, trafficking, violence against women
    13-14:30 Video activism
    14:30-16:00 Feminine corporeality, our corporeality
    16:00-18 “Radical Tour” through Bucharest
    16:00-17:30: Preconceived ideas: a day in the media.
    18:00-19:00: Intro to open source software
    19:00- “Precarious lives”… D MEDIA discussion about the concept of precarity

    During the entire festival:
    ZINE-MAKING, ACTIVIST FAIR, TRAVELING ZINE LIBRARY
    SCREENINGS from the Ladyfest videotheque: “Ladyfest Grenoble”, “female+queer words+beats”, “Bought and sold”, “Behind the labels”, “If hope were enough”, “War zone”, “Mami”, “Hot and bothered – feminist pornography”, “Grrlyshow”, “Clitfest 2004 – the documentary”, “Born in flames”, “Market this!: queer radicals respond to market assimilation”, “The art of hollering”, “Barely audible”, “Flori de mac”

    >> CONCERTS & EXPO
    @ PUNKOTECA,
    str. Atelierului nr. 14
    (near Gara de Nord)

    * Friday (12.10) from 22:00:
    STACEY CAPOOT – acoustic / indie (San Diego, U.S.A.)
    NOT YOURS – rock (Deva, Romania)
    DJ: K* (Bielefeld, Germany)

    * Saturday (13.10) from 21:00:
    HEADPHONE KICKS – funk / ska / alternative (Bacau, Romania)
    THE FITS – pop (Orebro, Suedia)
    DJ PINKTROL (Poland/Stockholm, Suedia)

    * Sunday (14.10) from 21:00:
    VIVE LA NOIZ – alternative / ska / punk (Bistrita, Romania)
    MEANOX- aternative / rock / indie (Bucharest, Romania)
    DJ IF (Munchen, Germania)

    During the entire festival:
    ART EXPO
    —-photography: Mira Marincas (Cluj); Luiza Puiu (Timisoara); Elena Stoehr (Köln, Germany); Adina Rafaila (Brasov)
    —-painting: Iulia Nicolaie (Brasov); Maria Ivan Gurzu (Bucharest); Ana Maria Dinescu (Bucharest); Eliza Gereanu (Bucharest)
    —-engraving/painting: Laura Partin (Iasi)
    —-engraving/collage: Olivia (Bucharest)

    Cosponsors: ACCEPT, Alert Fund, D Media, Indymedia Romania, Komunitas, Ladyfest Frankfurt, Ladyfest Mannheim, Project Space, XminY Solidariteitsfonds

    ++++++++ Details: https://fia.pimienta.org
    ++++++++ Contact: ladyfest-ro@lists.riseup.net

    really perfect definition of feminism

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    reading through “The Books that changed our lives”, i came upon this perfect description (lots of other great comments from some awesome feminists in the article):

    “feminism isn’t an argument or a position but a kind of sanity … a way of looking at the world that takes the humanity of female people seriously” – ariel levy [some discussion of levy’s most famous book mentioned in an older post here].

    a bit about the books that changed my life here. to which i’d add this about bell hooks, this about gloria anzaldua, this on jane eyre and this on fiul risipitor. and a feminist reading list i made a while ago here.