Free and open to the public, register here: https:\/\/sfu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/u5IkduyorjkqH9U9a0YT0ZItu00gZaeNYa_5<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Event will be professionally live captioned<\/strong><\/p>\n This talk will explore the proliferation of discourses of care \u2013 including self-care, collective care, and radical care \u2013 as well as critiques of those discourses, both of which have gained additional momentum and urgency in activist and academic contexts during this time of pandemic. Taking up Eli Clare\u2019s notion of \u201cgrappling with cure,\u201d I \u201cgrapple with care,\u201d including its use in addressing the mental health crisis in academia and its use by activists, especially queer feminists of colour working for racial, gender, sexual, and disability justice.\u00a0 Drawing on the work of adrienne maree brown, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, I explore organizing and facilitation as forms of femme emotional labour or care, the somatic politics of reclaiming the body from collective histories of trauma, and creative approaches to practices of care.<\/p>\n Ann Cvetkovich is Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at Carleton University.\u00a0 She was previously Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, and founding Director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.\u00a0 She is the author of Mixed Feelings:\u00a0 Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism<\/em> (Rutgers, 1992); An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures<\/em> (Duke, 2003); and Depression: A Public Feeling<\/em> (Duke, 2012).\u00a0 For additional info, see www.anncvetkovich.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday May 21, 2022 2:00pm – 4:00pm EST<\/strong><\/p>\n Free and open to the public, register here: https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/291340044917<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Event will be professionally live captioned<\/strong><\/p>\n Organized by Dr. Ricky Varghese, recipient of the 2020 Academic Leadership in Sexuality Studies Award.<\/p>\n The philosopher Walter Benjamin famously suggested that \u201callegories are in the realm of thoughts what ruins are in the realm of things.\u201d What kind of ruin is the thing or figure that is queer? Is queerness synonymous to the ruin? What might it mean to queer the ruin or think of it as foundationally queer at its core? If as Benjamin suggested, in the ruin, there are allegories for thinking itself, can queerness be a thought experiment requiring us to think differently, or otherwise, about difference and otherness? As the ellipsis in the title suggests \u2013 the ellipsis, itself a way to signify a sort of ruin in and of a text \u2013 this panel of poets attempts to initiate a conversation regarding what it is that leaves us in ruins, how we may find forms of redemption amidst these ruins, and what may be precisely queer and otherwise about this redemption.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grappling with Care: Femme Emotional Labour, Somatic Politics, and the Black Feminist Breathing Chorus Keynote address by Dr. Ann Cvetkovich Friday May 20, 2022 6:00pm – 7:30pm EST Free and … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ssaaes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cvetkovich-224x300.png\")
<\/strong><\/p>\nPlenary Panel: ruins, queer and otherwise\u2026<\/h3>\n
A panel convened by Dr. Ricky Varghese featuring Canisia Lubrin, Fan Wu, Concetta Principe, sam sax, Trish Salah.<\/h3>\n
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