Proud / Loud / Heard ...?
– exploring LGBT+ identity, being and experiences
Friday 19 May 2023, 10.30am – 4.30pmLocation: in person at the University of Manchester and online
One-day hybrid conference for academics, researchers and activists conducting research on sexual orientation and gender identity issues and/or bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, trans, queer ... lives.
The aim of this conference is to explore how LGBT+ people have experienced and /or are experiencing actions and discourse around their self-identities. This may include gender and sexual identity, intersectionality, desire, relationships, experience across the lifespan, politics and solidarity.
This conference is open to all, you don’t have to be a UCU member to attend this event. The conference is free to attend.
Call for papers: deadline 27 February 2023
Proposals (of no more than 500 words) are now invited.
The deadline date for submission is 4pm Monday 27 February 2023..
There will be a peer review process following submission.
Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to:
- Hetero and Cis normativity as context for LGBT+ identity
- Liberation – LGBT+ and intersectional approaches / aspirations
- Good As You, not the same as you: LGBT+ identity, stories & struggles
- Gender Identities: trans, non-binary, queering, querying, power
- Histories of and present difference – margins, competing, contestation
- Locating identity - levels of outness, digital expression, communities
- Deconstructing binaries
- Intersectional LGBT+ identities – class / disability / race / religion
- International perspectives: stipulations, struggles, self-actualisation
- Cultural differences
- Impact of and overcoming prejudice and discrimination
- Differences across the lifespan: childhood, teenage, adult, older age
- LGBT+ in policy and practice: equality, legislation, usualising diversity
- Realisation or otherwise of life aspirations and expectations
- Negotiating invisibility and visibility – personal, culture, society, media
- Recovering LGBT+ histories
- Disparities and dialogue: access to services, money + social resources
- LGBT+ identities and impact in public health research and advocacy
- Differences in thinking about sexuality and sexual practices
- Collectivity and Solidarity – sites and means of organising and action
- Understandings of sex: protected characteristic, intersex, biodiversity
- Histories of and present difference –margins, competing, contestation.
Proposals to deliver the research papers can be for academic or action research covering theory and/or practice.
Proposals should include a 50-word statement explaining the relationship between the paper and the theme and how it relates to LGBT+ issues/lives.
If you have any questions please email Seth Atkin:
satkin@ucu.org.uk