Queer Speculations: Twitter archive
Almost a week ago, we had the culmination of my first year at UMD: the DC Queer Studies Symposium, Queer Speculations. From the opening sessions to the celebratory dancing afterward, it was a really...
View ArticleTiptree Fellowships 2015: call for applications
I’ve just come back from WisCon, the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention (now in its 39th year), where I am now co-chairing the academic track. It went fabulously, and I’m looking...
View Article#transformDH Conference: Call for Video Contributions!
I’m incredibly excited to announce that on October 2 and 3 2015, the University of Maryland Women’s Studies Department will host a gathering for scholars and practitioners doing gender, race,...
View ArticleTwo deadlines
This site may have been quiet of late, but its writer has been extremely busy. Two of the projects I’m most excited to be working on this semester have deadlines today, so it seemed like an excellent...
View ArticleNWSA 2015: tweets from Sara Ahmed’s magnificent keynote on Feminism and...
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View ArticleTiptree Fellows of 2015: Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée
I am exceedingly delighted to announce that the 205 cohort of Tiptree Fellows has been announced. They are the truly fabulous Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée. LaPensée expresses herself through...
View ArticleWisCon 40: academic and non-academic programming
It’s my second year as co-chair of Academic Programming at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon – which has its 40th anniversary this year. Here’s our call for papers: WisCon, the world’s...
View ArticleA digital amphibian moving through transformative worlds
Last week, I was invited to participate in the Composing Disability conference at George Washington University. Jonathan Hsy organized a wonderful panel titled Digitial Amphibians: Parallel Lives and...
View ArticleTiptree Fellowships 2016
The deadline for the second year of the Tiptree Fellowships program is coming up on September 1. The Tiptree Fellowships are my main project within the James Tiptree, Jr Award organization. Here’s...
View Article#tiptree16 and science fiction for transformative change
So long has passed since I last wrote here (I have been finding that so much of the labor of faculty life takes the form of writing that I have few surplus words left over) and the political world is...
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