[ecrea] CFP Queer, Feminist and social media praxis Workshop

CFP Queer, Feminist and social media praxis Workshop (Deadline 31st January)

The Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies

announces the

Queer, Feminist and social media praxis Workshop
17 May 2013 -- University of Sussex, Brighton
Keynote speaker: Prof Alex Juhasz (Pitzer College US, Fembot)

Call for papers
How do social media enable queer and feminist activism?
How does imagining queer & feminist futures link with social media?
How can we understand the interconnections between radical art practices 
and cyberfeminisms?
What role does science and technology play in shaping social practices 
and cultural identities?

Feminism, queer activism and queer studies have engaged with questions 
of technology, computing, and social media. In this workshop we are 
interested in exploring a range of themes around mediation and 
gender/sexuality activism -- and particularly how digital technologies, 
art and social media can present possibilities or impossibilities for 
social equality.

The aim of the workshop is to enable a productive dialogue between 
different researchers, activists, artists and dimensions of community. 
We hope that this will lead to new forms of engagement and new 
collaborations between communities and academics. The workshop is linked 
to the second annual conference of the International Feminist Journal of 
Politics, (Im)possibly Queer International Feminisms, between May 17-19, 
2013. We are inviting local activist groups to participate.

Alongside traditional academic formats (panels, papers), we are 
interested in critical interventions that open up spaces for 
conversation and collaboration, such as creative work, workshops or 
other formats that cut across these practices.

Sub-themes include, but are not limited to:
Digital storytelling, sexuality & gender
Transnational feminist/queer networks & mapping
LGBTQ Youth & social media
Trans identity online
Blogging, micro-blogging, video-blogging and activism
Cyberfeminism/artistic practices
Memory & digital archives

We invite submissions for individual papers, panels, workshops and/or 
creative work on any of the above themes or related themes.
Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to (r.tavernor /at/ sussex.ac.uk) by 
January 31, 2013.
For more information visit our blog: http://queerfemdigiact.wordpress.com/
On Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Queer-Feminist-and-Social-Media-Praxis-Workshop/434729706593342

Conference Directors: Dr Aristea Fotopoulou, Professor Sally R Munt
Co-organisers: Rachel Tavernor, Tanya Kant