Sociology and Gender DPhils at Sussex

'We want to offer the opportunity for and of sexual violence to be heard through our project.

Our anonymous, 10 minute questionnaire is open for you to tell us about your experience of accessing (or not accessing) support services.

We're offering a £50 Amazon gift voucher prize draw for taking part.'

Sexual Violence/Abuse Support Services: Accessibility for BMER (Black, Minority Ethnic/Migrant &... Consent to participate in a research Study We would like to invite you to take part in our research study the ‘My Voice Project’. This study focuses on identifying the barriers that BMER (Black, Minority/Migrant, Ethnic & Refugee) and LGBT (Le***an, Gay, Bisexual & Trans*) individuals face in access…

From Survivors' Network's My Voice project (https://www.facebook.com/myvoiceresearch):

"Are you a professional working in East Sussex with LGBT or BMER people?

Fill in our 15 minute survey to help us identify the best ways to support LGBT and BMER survivors of sexual violence.

You don't have to work directly in the field of sexual violence support - any organisation or service with specialist services with these under-represented groups are included in our survey."

Professionals questionnaire We are interested in hearing about your organisation, who you provide services for and how. Please answer as many questions as you can. The full questionnaire should take no more than 15 minutes.

Can you help Survivors' Network improve access to their sexual violence support services to under-represented groups?

The My Voice project aims to:

Identify needs from BME and LGBT survivors of sexual violence and abuse

Develop links with BME and LGBT people who have experienced sexual violence and abuse, and those who support them.

Work co-operatively with other organisations in order to develop service provision and good practice in Sussex.

Like their page here: https://www.facebook.com/myvoiceresearch

My Voice | Survivors' Network Funded by Awards for All, My Voice is a one-year project that aims to increase access to emotional and practical support for BME and LGBT survivors, improving their ability to cope with the impact of sexual violence.

If you think you can step in and help, please message Catherine Will at [email protected]

"We have had someone drop out of teaching on my module (Designing Qualitative Research; 2nd year Sociology undergraduate module) and are struggling to fill the gap.

Do any of you happen to know people in the postgraduate community who might be interested?

It’s a practically focussed module introducing basic issues in qualitative data collection and analysis, and is well established. I don’t think there are huge amounts of preparation to do, and certainly minimal reading, as I will share lecture slides each week and suggest exercises for the seminars.

Any suggestions much appreciated, as this is really urgent.

Best wishes

Catherine

Dr Catherine Will, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, Freeman Building G44, University of Sussex, BN1 9QE. Tel: 01273 678449. [email protected]"

This term's Sociology Seminar Series kicks off on February 4th with a talk on Asexuality:

"Date: Wednesday 04th February 2015 / Time: 13.00-14.30 / Location: Freeman Centre/Building (Moot Room – Ground Floor)

Speaker: Susie Scott and Elizabeth McDonnell

Seminar Title: ‘Asexual Lives: everyday experiences of intimacy and identity’

Seminar Topic: The “Asexual Lives: everyday experiences, relationships and stories of becoming” project has produced a rich data set that we have analysed in varied ways. This presentation focuses on patterns in the narrative styles or ‘storylines’ generated by our 50 participant interviews. Guided by our twin foci of identity and intimacy, we grouped together participants’ stories within a typology that showed various intersections of identity and intimacy. In other words, stories of becoming asexual were interweaved with stories of romantic attraction and/or sexual desire, or their absence. We have identified five different storylines or types of storyteller (Resolved, Pioneering, Negotiating, Seeking and Questioning), which we shall discuss with case examples.

Biography: Liz McDonnell is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, working on this Leverhulme-funded asexuality project. Liz has worked as a qualitative researcher for a number of years across a range of areas e.g. health, family/parenting, education and disability. Her PhD explored fertility decision making using narrative research methods. She also teaches data analysis using NVivo 10.

Susie Scott is a Reader in Sociology with research interests in Symbolic Interactionism and Goffman’s dramaturgical theory, social identity and everyday life. She is the author of Shyness and Society, Making Sense of Everyday Life and Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities. Susie teaches modules on Identity and Interaction, the sociology of Everyday Life, and the Sociology Project."

"But as it develops the impact programme, the Higher Education Funding Council for England should acknowledge that impact is not neutral. I imagine that an analysis of the REF 2014 impact case studies would find that the majority of them came from white men – not because their research is better, but because they are likely to have the social and cultural capital required to make a splash and to be taken seriously. Furthermore, in a social media age there is a price to be paid by anyone who gains a public profile – and this is especially true for women who talk about gender."

From Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, Alison Phipps

The dark side of the impact agenda Academics’ engagement activities are valuable, says Alison Phipps. But a public profile comes at a price, especially for women who study gender

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly Issue 3 Volume 4, 2016
> Special issue on Trans- Political Economy
> Co-editors Dan Irving ([email protected]) and Vek Lewis ([email protected])
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> Trans* embodiment, subjectivities, networks, advocacy and resistance are mediated by global capitalism and neoliberal regimes of accumulation on national, state and local levels. This issue invites trans scholarship that engages with political economy as an assemblage of dynamic processes that frame but do not completely determine the material lives of non-normatively sexed and/or gendered individuals and communities.
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> This issue aims to problematize the multidimensional circuits and flows of capital, labour and bodies across various types of borders. How do the material experiences of trans* subjects advance understandings of the political economy of intra- and transnational mobilities? What do the politics of trans migration reveal about the gender/labour/violence nexus and racialized hierarchies that facilitate the advancement of passable bodies while hindering others? How is the legibility of gendered, racialized, sexualized bodies contingent on being properly located in relation to social, economic and cultural capital? How do trans/feminist and other social justice scholars and activists hold particular trans subjectivities (especially trans women) personally responsible for their participation in geopolitical and biocapitalist relations in ways that other gender non-conforming individuals are not?
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> Debates concerning post-Fordist productive/consumer relations, gender and immaterial labour represent another point of entry for scholarly-activist inquiry into the political economic relations governing these new times. While the expansion of the service economy within post-industrial societies is characteristic of Post-Fordism (e.g. food and hospitality services, childcare, retail), this regime of accumulation emphasizes the centrality of service relations between workers and consumers in all sectors. Capitalist relations exceed narrowly defined economic processes (i.e. commodity production/consumption) and pivot around affective labour, moral or emotional economies. In other words, individual bodies and personalities are put to work to create positive consumer experiences (i.e. workers’ appearances must be attractive, voices soothing, and behavior must signal enthusiasm, dedication, and/or deference to authority). How do the un/der/employment experiences of trans men and women, demonstrate the failure of particular bodies to produce feelings of security, safety, belonging, and satisfaction? How does trans labour contribute to economies of desire? What logics and interests underline the criminalization and/or precarity of such labour and the lives and status of those implicated?
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> We are producing trans- political economic analysis in times of war, economic and ecological crises. Such precarious times demand inter/disciplinary inquiry into the ways that gender non-conforming bodies and/or Trans Studies as a body of literature, artistic and activist production serve as sites of contestation. How are the logics of capital being embodied and resisted on micropolitical levels, through non-profit organizations, via social service agencies and through other efforts to achieve substantive equality and transformative justice?
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> Possible topics may include:
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> · trans* affective economies
> · trans entrepreneurialism and economic empowerment
> · the structural realities of race and gender in locales of trans* mobilities
> · Trans and allied critical work and activism that seeks to interrupt ruling relations of contemporary capital and Empire to forge a transformative and decolonial project of social and economic justice.
> · trans* intranational and international migration
> · Trans Studies as marketable brand
> · trans theories of value
> · criminalized economies
> · neoliberal biopolitics and/or administering life chances
> · economies of trans representation within neoliberal market society
> · accumulation processes and bodies that matter
> · trans/gender and immaterial labour
> · biomedicine and global capitalism
> · Trans sexualities, commodification and re-appropriation in contemporary junctures.
> · Trans lives in the context of parallel powers, para-state formations and economic contention.
> · Capital and the uses/misuses of stigma
> · substantive equality in contradistinction to formal equality
> · trans necro political economies
> · The profitability of “diversity” in neoliberal contexts and discourses
> · Trans lives, states of exception, disposable labour and market value in the shadow of law and state
> · trans* specific and inclusive social service provision in austere times
> · trans subjectivities and class
> · theorizing economic and ecological crisis
> · Politics of public/private in trans lives
> · Trans sexualities, commodification and re-appropriation in contemporary junctures.
> · trans un/der/employment
> · trans networks and circuits of human, cultural and social capital
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> To be considered, please send a full length submission by October 15th, 2015 to [email protected]. With your article, please include a brief bio including name, postal address, and any institutional affiliation as well as a 150 word abstract with 3-5 keywords. The expected range for scholarly articles is 5000 to 7000 words, and 1000 to 2000 words for shorter critical essays and descriptive accounts. Illustrations should be included with both completed submissions and abstracts. Any questions should be addressed by e-mail sent to the guest editors for the issue: Dan Irving ([email protected]) and Vek Lewis ([email protected]).
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> TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is a new journal, edited by Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Every issue of TSQ will be a specially themed issue that also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, visit http://lgbt.arizona.edu/tsq-main. For information about subscriptions, visithttp://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=45648.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | LGBT Studies Institute for Le***an, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender StudiesUniversity of Arizona 1731 E. Second St., #201 Tucson, AZ 85721-0014 Office: (520)626-3431 Fax: (520)626-1181 login website design: polle.us

Pregnant, and No Civil Rights Anti-abortion measures are used to control childbirth decisions.

CALLING ALL TRANS FOLK who live, work, socialise or study in Brighton and Hove.
Tuesday 21st October 6-8pm @ Marlborough Pub & Theatre
Following on from the excellent work of the Brighton and Hove City Council's Trans Scrutiny, new in-depth research has been commissioned to help in the commissioning and development of local services.
Please come along to find out more, if you would like to be involved in improving the lives of Trans people in Brighton and Hove through this groundbreaking work.

Groundbreaking Research Aims to Expand Our Knowledge of Abortion Stigma Despite its ubiquity in our culture, abortion stigma has garnered relatively little scholarly attention. Now, after two years of effort, there's a new issue of the academic journal Women and Health that focuses entirely on abortion stigma.

You are warmly invited to the Sussex Centre for
Gender Studies annual event!

Thursday 19th June 2014, 2-5pm in the
Fulton Building, room 101
2.00pm: Lecture by Professor Sue Thornham (title TBC)
3.00pm: Tea/coffee, cake and discussion
3.30pm: Gender Studies annual meeting (all invited)
4.30pm Further discussion and networking
All welcome—you do not have to be at Sussex / formally
affiliated with the Centre.
Please RSVP to [email protected]