Looking Back, Looking Forward Friday 30th June 2017, University of Surrey, Guildford BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event Contemporary queer studies increasingly focus on broad areas of sociological concern. It is therefore common to find early career researchers working on… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘sexuality’
DEADLINE TOMORROW: Sex and Sexualities in Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives 2016
Sex and Sexualities in Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives 2016 Call for Papers for a 1-day postgraduate symposium hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre Abstract deadline: April 15th, 2016 Conference date and location: September 3rd, 2016, Digital Cultures Research Centre, The Watershed,… Read More ›
Celibacies: American Modernism & Sexual Life
Benjamin Kahan, Celibacies: American Modernism & Sexual Life, 2013, United States of America, Duke University Press, 235 pp., There is a degree of difficulty inherent in reviewing texts from outside your discipline and certain risks attached to evaluating research… Read More ›
The Sex Myth
I first encountered the work of Rachel Hills in 2012, when she interviewed me for an essay in the Atlantic exploring asexuality. The conversation itself was incredibly stimulating and the ensuing piece of work was the best thing I’ve read… Read More ›
Taking the Cake: Reflecting on A/Sexuality
A documentary project I was interviewed for earlier in the year:
CfP: Queer Partnering 2016
QUEERING PARTNERING 2016 – CALL FOR PAPERS Queering Partnering is the 1st International Conference stemming from the large ERC funded study INTIMATE: Citizenship, Care and Choice – The micro-politics of intimacy in Southern Europe (www.ces.uc.pt/intimate). This year the Conference will… Read More ›
What does it mean to be asexual?
This feature in Vice I produced with my friend Holly Falconer was discussed in this interesting Slate podcast: (edit to add: turns out we weren’t discussed at all, only included as supplementary reading. oh well!)
CfP: I Confess: An Anthology of Original Essays on Constructing the Sexual Self in Contemporary Moving Image Art, Media and Culture
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS I Confess: An Anthology of Original Essays on Constructing the Sexual Self in Contemporary Moving Image Art, Media and Culture (title-in-progress) edited by Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo, Concordia University A twenty-chapter collection of essays on confessionality… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Remembering Operation Spanner: Culture, Law, History, Crime
Remembering Operation Spanner: Culture, Law, History and Crime 10th & 11th September 2015 Two interdisciplinary workshops at the University of Essex & Royal Holloway, University of London Keynote Speakers: Professor Ken Plummer (University of Essex) Professor Carl Stychin (City University)… Read More ›
CfP: The Neoliberal University: Gender, Class, & Sexuality
This panel intends to investigate processes of bureaucratization and business-afication of the university and the role that these have in re-shaping the interrelations of class, gender, and sexuality; and the specific ways that the change from educational pedagogy to business… Read More ›
The Association of (Gay) Suburban People
It’s easy to associate gay culture with urban life, as if the two are inextricably linked and always would be. But this fascinating work of social history offers an illuminating perspective on organised gay suburban life in the 1970s and… Read More ›
Queering ESOL: towards a cultural politics of LGBT politics in the ESOL classroom
‘Queering ESOL: towards a cultural politics of LGBT politics in the ESOL classroom’ UCL Institute of Education 19 – 20 June 2015 For info about previous seminars go to:https://queeringesol.wordpress.com/ Plenary speakers Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes (Federal University of Rio… Read More ›
Queer Kinship & Relationship Conference 2015 – Registration till 17th og May (only few places left)
We are pleased to announce the registration for non-presenting participants for the Queer Kinship And Relationship Conference (8-11 June 2015, Zalesie, Poland). During the conference we will concentrate on different understandings of queer kinships/relationships, and present more insights into the… Read More ›
‘Media, Gender & Culture’ Summer School, King’s College London
King’s College London Summer School 2014 ‘Media, Gender & Culture’ 6-24 July 2015 How does gender organize contemporary life? What role does media play in shaping individual identities, cultural attitudes and social practices? How can we understand… Read More ›
Call for papers: Queer Methods
WSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue QUEER METHODS Guest Editors: Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In… Read More ›
1st Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference
1st Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference (Sept. 25th–27th, ’15) Call for Contributions – Deadline 18th May 2015 (To see a longer version of this Call for Contributions, please go here) || PLEASE SHARE Research in sociology, psychology, anthropology and contemporary history has shown… Read More ›
Sexual Cultures 2: Academia Meets Activism
Sexuality activists/academics – do consider submitting to this and please pass it on. Due to the huge interest in the Sexual Cultures 2: Academia Meets Activism conference, we have extended the Call for Papers to 15 January 2015. Please circulate widely and… Read More ›
Tales From the Millennials’ Sexual Revolution
This intriguing but somewhat overstated article in Rolling Stone Magazine contests that there’s a distinctively generational dimension to changing relationship practices, with millennials constituting “a generation that has been raised with the concept of sexual freedom and without solid guidelines… Read More ›
Porn Studies is Released
Routledge Journals Publishes Porn Studies March 2014 – Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) publish the first double issue of Porn Studies, the premier dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical,… Read More ›
Launch of ‘SexGen Northern Network’ and seminar on Compulsory Sexualities
We would like to invite you to get involved in the ‘sexgen’ network. ‘sexgen’ is a collaborative interdisciplinary network bringing together gender and sexuality based research centres around the North of England. We aim to bring academic research, writing and… Read More ›
Launch of ‘SexGen Northern Network’ in the UK
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce the launch of the ‘sexgen Northern Network’. ‘sexgen’ is a collaborative interdisciplinary network bringing together gender and sexuality based research centres around the North of England. We aim to bring academic research, writing… Read More ›
“No one is born gay (or straight)”?
Here is a great post by ejaneward at the Social (In)Queery blog discussing the social origins of sexuality and the complexity of notions, such as “choice”, which we are too often keen to simplify. What do you think? Social (In)Queery is… Read More ›
Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
As you’ve probably noticed if you follow this site at all closely, we sometimes post about asexuality. For those who don’t know, asexuality is usually defined as ‘not experiencing sexual attraction’ and is a cultural identity which largely emerged online… Read More ›
Seminar Series on the History of Sexuality
Seminar Launch Event: What is the History of Sexuality? 6 p.m. Tuesday 7th January 2014, The Court Room, Senate House London. The Institute of Historical Research, London, launches its new and exciting research seminar series, History of Sexuality, with a round table discussion… Read More ›
Recognising Diversity? Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice
Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice 20th & 21st June: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice marks the end of the research project ‘Recognising… Read More ›
Why did men stop wearing high heels?
Finally a good article explaining the craze of high heels with the help of some well-researched historical evidence. After years of being baffled why on earth (rather, above earth) half of the (rich) world’s population is expected (and often cherishes… Read More ›
Why sexual people don’t get asexuality and why it matters
I had three initial aims with my asexuality research: mapping out community in a ideographically adequate way, understanding the role the internet played in the formation of the community and exploring what the reception of asexuality reveals about sexual culture…. Read More ›
The cultural significance of asexuality
Until people started calling themselves homosexual, it didn’t make much sense for anyone to refer to themselves as heterosexual. Up until that point, it had simply been taken for granted and, as such, escaped scrutiny either by individuals or by society more widely. As… Read More ›
“It has happened to me”: the untold and unheard stories of male rape
“Everybody has heard the women’s stories. But nobody has heard the men’s.” No one talks of male rape – yet it happens – as an instrument of war, as well as outside war. Yet this systemical silence does nothing to… Read More ›
The Opposite of Crush
Once, in my Introductory Sociology course, I gave a lecture about social oppression. It was fairly abstract. I didn’t talk about any specific kind of social oppression, like gender oppression or racial oppression or sexual oppression. I just talked about… Read More ›