[Commlist] Call for Papers: “Resistance and Resilience: Gender/Sexuality in Digital Culture”

*Call for Papers: “Resistance and Resilience: Gender/Sexuality in 
Digital Culture” *

*May 16, 2024 *

*Exeter, UK *

*Department of Communications, Drama, and Film, University of Exeter *


Deeply embedded in our everyday life and our body, digital media have 
transformed gendered and sexual cultures and practices. Gender and 
sexuality as the performative have also transformed digital cultures, 
carving out important spaces for resistance and resilience in the face 
of systemic dehumanization. We have been witnessing how increasing 
(self-)representations of feminisms and LGBTQ people in the digital 
media landscape challenge and provoke backlash and how digitally 
mediated bodies (expressive form of gender and sexuality) complicate 
sexual and gendered norms. For example, the #MeToo movement has since 
evolved into a global phenomenon, symbolising the anti-sexual harassment 
movement in the digital age. Critical analysis within tweets, vlogs, 
TikToks and memes have become essential to deconstructing the 
transphobic rhetoric of the mainstream media.

The dialectics of gender/sexuality and digital media urge us to question 
changing forms, nature, and modes of resistance and resilience practices 
around patriarchy, heteronormativity, and cis-normativity at the 
intersection of racism, nationalism, colonialism, and neoliberalism. To 
tackle this question, and to launch a new Research Centre for Gender, 
Sexuality, and Digital Culture, we invite scholars from all disciplines 
to join us at the Resistance and Resilience conference to engage in 
conversations about how networked digital media complicate national and 
cultural belonging and rearrange gendered, sexual, and bodily norms that 
move beyond colonial and neoliberal resilience.

The topics include but are not limited to:

  * Feminist and LGBTQ digital activism, solidarity, and resistance in
    the rising backlashes
  * Popular feminisms and/or neoliberal feminisms
  * Digital embodiment of gender and sexuality
  * Fandoms, celebrity and influencer culture
  * Representations of women and LGBTQ people in games
  * Queer Diasporas
  * Body weight, health, beauty, cisnormativity and queer bodies online
  * Digital sex work and heteronormativity, romance and intimacy online
  * Postcolonialism and critical race theory in digital spaces
The conference organizers welcome abstracts from Early Career 
Researchers and particularly encourage academics from marginalized 
groups to apply. The conference committee invites proposals for 
individual 20-minute papers: Please email a 350 word abstract (+50word 
bio) in a single Word document to Dr. Woori Han ((w.han /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(w.han /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>) by Jan 18, 2024.

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*Key dates: *

Submission Deadline Jan 18, 2024

Decision Notification: Feb 26, 2024

Conference: May 16, 2024

*Keynote speakers: To be Confirmed *

Organizing Committee

Drs. Amelia Morris, Haili Li, and Woori Han

Department of Communications, Drama, and Film, University of Exeter


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