Call for submissions: The Body as a Site of Discrimination - A Multidisciplinary, Multimedia Online Journal
The Body as a Site of Discrimination will be an interactive,educational, multi-disciplinary, high quality, critical, and cuttingedge online journal. This creative project will fulfill the degreerequirements for two Master's of Social Work students at SFSU. This is a call for submissions to explore the following themes, but other interpretations are also encouraged.
- Disability and Ableism
- Fatphobia or Size Discrimination
- Ageism
- Racism
- Gender Discrimination
- Transphobia, non-conforming gender identities, sexual assault, sexism, and reproductive rights
Cultural and academic communities are invited to contribute for a well-rounded exploration of the theme. The significance of this project is to examine the intersectionality between varying forms of body-based oppressions. Crossing disciplines is necessary to understand this matrix of discrimination and will lead to inventive strategies of change and resistance. The outcome of this journal will contribute to the body of knowledge and serve as a resource for subsequent generations of social workers and other helping professionals.
Entries can explore activism and resistance around these issues, focus on social justice, and implications for social work practice and policy. Representative voices from the identified communities are encouraged to submit. Submissions can include personal narratives, research articles, performance and visual art, fiction, poetry, music, etc. Electronic copies of submissions will be considered for publication.
All submissions must be received by January 15, 2009 to bodydiscrimination@gmail.com
Please pass on this call to any interested parties and contact us if you have any questions.
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Editors-in-Chief
The Body as a Site of Discrimination
h/t to Charlotte at Obesity TimeBomb, and Shelly Tremain, What Sorts of People
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5 comments:
It seems to me that feminist analyses of disability almost always focus on the body. As an autistic person, the prejudice I experience is not directed at my body, but my mind. I think it would be good to do an examination of developmental disabilities sometime. I read somewhere that developmentally delayed girls tend to feel better about being disabled than developmentally delayed boys - probably because girls aren't expected to be smart. In contrast, high functioning autistic girls are often seen as being somehow 'male', as with Simon Baren-Cohen's 'extreme male brain' theory of autism.
can we send in more than one submission?
Yes, please let us know if we can send in more than one submission. I would be interested in sending in both a commentary piece and a personal narrative.
Hello,
I am one of the editors for The Body as a Site of Discrimination.
Normajean- Yes, feel free to submit more than one entry.
Ettina- I hear what you are saying. However, I think it would be awesome and relevant to receive submissions addressing developmental disabilities.
Contact us at bodydiscrimination@gmail.com with any other questions.
Thanks!
Ettina - that would be a fabulous topic for a paper. There are quite a few feminist analyses of developmental disabilities - I will post some links to some that I know of soon.
For questions about submissions, contact the conference organizer. There is a link to 'submissions" included in the cfp.
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