[Commlist] CFP: LGBTQ Protests: A global perspective

*CFP: LGBTQ Protests: A global perspective*

Call for chapter proposals

Proposals for chapters (300 words) must be sent to Dr. Paromita Pain 
((paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com)>) by Oct 15, 
2022, for consideration.

Mashable recently described LGBTQ activism as “bold, colorful and 
unapologetic.” Lesbian and gay activism may now circle the globe, but it 
is vastly understudied (Brown, 2009). This edited collection aims to 
bring together voices from different parts of the world to examine LGBTQ 
protests and the impact of cultural beliefs, media and sociopolitical 
structures, and individual and different LGBTQ behaviors on protests. 
Why do individuals participate in protest activities? How do cultural 
beliefs, personal attitudes, and subjective perception influence the 
potential protester? The book seeks to move beyond an oversimplified 
examination of queer protests and show, through the voices of activists, 
the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer protests throughout the 
globe. How have struggles over LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and 
police violence created a sense of vulnerability that has an impact on 
culture and the law?

This will look at critiques, concepts, case studies of LGBTQ protests 
around the world.

Authors are invited to send in abstracts on associated topics that can 
address the issue of agency in protest and why protestors enlist 
different tactics to achieve their goals. Why are some protests violent 
and others nonviolent? When and why do activists conclude that it is 
better to accommodate than confront? Finally, and crucially, what are 
the consequences of protest movements in the LGBTQ context?

This edition welcomes work that seeks to understand media and digital 
protest cultures created, for, about or by queer and transgender people, 
activists, educators, and artists who work with or research ways to use 
digital means and measures to combat different forms of oppression, 
whether digital or otherwise.

Although LGBTQ+ people in every region of the world face marginalization 
and repression, their human rights have steadily advanced. Much of this 
advancement has happened because of the relentless protests and activism 
that activists and ordinary people have waged often at great personal 
cost to ensure that human rights are maintained and protected. August 
11, 1992 may have marked the first LGBTQ protest in Delhi India but 
LGBTQ protests have a longer and richer history than scholarship has 
previously examined. Traditional media and digital platforms have all 
had a role to play to legitimize or diminish protest actors especially 
in the sphere of LGBTQ protests. More recently, in the process of 
opening new spaces for discussions of queer sexuality, the internet and 
digital technologies have facilitated, a process of connectivity that 
have created important nodes of identification, belonging, and support 
(Pullen, & Cooper, 2010). These spaces, in different parts of the world, 
symbolically, have evolved to become collective sites of resistance to 
sources of oppressive power, encouraging the active exchange of queer 
ideologies across distant spaces and facilitating the formation of 
‘queer counterpublics’ (Soriano, 2014).How have different media and 
digital platforms contributed to highlighting or diminishing these 
protests? There is little doubt that sexual minorities can use online 
and traditional media to strategically contextualize their struggle as 
part of a transnational LGBTQ rights campaign that reverberates across 
national borders (Soriano, 2014).

*This collection is particularly interested in examining and learning 
more about LGBTQ protest and activism from different countries: *

Critiques, concepts, case studies of LGBTQ protests around the world.

How are social media and digital technologies used in the sphere of LGBT 
activism and empowerment

How are LGBTQ activism and protest framed and what do we learn from that 
framing?

Activists and their use different media to educate and mobilize audiences.

The potential of social media and how can this be further extended for 
LBGT activism.

LGBTQ Youth Activism and the transformative capability of digital and 
other media platforms

Proposals for chapters (300 words) must be sent to 
(paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com)> by Oct 30, 
2020, for consideration.

*Editor:*Paromita Pain
Assistant Professor
Donald W Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media 
Studies, University of Nevada — Reno
Reno, Nevada

Email: (ppain /at/ unr.edu) <mailto:(ppain /at/ unr.edu)>

*Editor Bio *

Paromita Pain, PhD

Paromita Pain’s research focuses on alternate media and global 
journalism practices from feminist and LGBTQ perspectives. Interested in 
epistemological concerns raised by emerging forms of media that are 
hybrids between old and new forms, between citizen and professional news 
practices, she has published various book chapters on the intersection 
of gender and social media besides looking into areas of online 
commenting and uncivil behavior and its impact on journalistic 
practices. LGBTQ rights, themes and practices are a special area of 
interest which developed when she was an activist for LGBTQ rights in 
India.Before receiving her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, 
she was a journalist with The Hindu Newspaper, India’s most respected 
broadsheet. Her most recent publication 
include:https://www.routledge.com/LGBTQ-Digital-Cultures-A-Global-Perspective/Pain/p/book/9781032050003 
<https://www.routledge.com/LGBTQ-Digital-Cultures-A-Global-Perspective/Pain/p/book/9781032050003>Her 
published work and research work can be found at: 
https://paromitapain.com/research/ <https://paromitapain.com/research/>


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