AJAAS Conference at CSULA

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2025 ChangeWire Fellows - Community Change Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the stat...

JQTSIE Special Issue: Call for Papers

Loud, proud, rooted, and resisting: Activism and advocacy in tough times
Co-editors: Liz Meyer (She/her) & Lee Airton (they/them)

Call for papers

“If you’re afraid of drag, you’re afraid of freedom.” ~ Legendary Philadelphia drag queen Sapphira Cristál
“I’m still fu***ng here.” ~ Trans elder and icon Miss Major Griffin Gracy

Movements for equity and justice in K-12 schools have been winning. In recent years, curricula have changed, policies have been developed, and supports have emerged to correct historical
exclusions and redress wrongs done to many equity-deserving groups by institutionalized education. While progress was not experienced universally, progress on the whole has been
undeniable. For q***r and trans people in schools, including students and the adults who work there, the recent past was a time of building and rooting down in schools that–put simply–have not wanted us to be there. We send out this call for papers at a time when our communities are paying a price for our
success in creating schools where every student can be who they are and thrive. The calls for our erasure are not only back but are being instantiated in laws and policies on both sides of the Canada-US border, and in other contexts around the world. Organized political groups have attempted to ban books, limit discussions of racism and LGBTQ+ lives, and erase trans students’ existence in schools. Against this coordinated and polarized backlash, q***r and trans people are remaining loud, proud, rooted, and resisting in our schools and school communities.

This special issue will bring together research on activism and resistance by people in and around K-12 schools who are responding to an increasingly virulent backlash against LGBTQ+
people being present and visible in public education, whether in the United States, in Canada or around the world, and from a transnational and intersectional perspective. As set out in JQTSIE’s aims and scope, we welcome papers that are conceptual/theoretical/critical such as literature reviews, policy and media analyses, and other non-empirical scholarly contributions providing that they directly address activism and resistance (7,000 words max, not inclusive of references, tables, and figures). We also welcome research-based articles (7,000 words max, not inclusive of references, tables, and figures), empirical research, and what

we are calling “From the Field” reports which are shorter submissions (2000 words max) that describe activism and resistance efforts in K-12 education related to the topic of the special issue. From the Field reports should make an effort to connect with relevant education literature, although the focus of the report should be describing and reflecting on (and possibly even critiquing) resistance/activism efforts related to the topic of the special issue. Reports should endeavor to synthesize takeaways, questions or considerations for others seeking to take action in other contexts.

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Assistant Professor of American Studies & Women's and Gender Studies Please review the details for the position before applying for the opening. You should have the required documents ready to upload in a PDF format (.pdf) or a Word document (.doc) format. Enter your education, starting with the highest degree, on the second page. Please upload your Curriculum Vitae....

We present to you La Jotería at AJAAS 2024 in Los Angeles, CA
Association for Jotería Arts, Activism and Scholarship (AJAAS)

Join us! https://www.ajaas.com/conference-2024
Book the hotel by 1/31.

The time you have waiting for is here! Joteria Pleasure... a conference at Cal State LA on 2/15-2/17/24

We're incredibly excited to have the privilege of working with artist Cecilia Luna (***rpendejx). Cecilia's unique approach and creative vision embody the spirit of Jotería Pleasure(s).
🎨 Cecilia Luna: Follow, tag, and share ***rpendejx to support an artist who is reshaping narratives and pushing boundaries through their work.

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Querida Familia, please consider supporting this very important project. My hermanxs Ernesto Martinez, Adelina Anthony, AdeRisa Productions, and many others are the creative masterminds bringing this project to fruition. They need our support to make their full-length film a reality. Please share and donate if you have the capacity to do so.

La Serenata - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark LA SERENATA is a lyrical, intimate, and at times deceptively funny feature film about a Mexican American family reckoning with tradition through the unexpected love story between two boys. There is no other US feature film that showcases the innocence and struggles of elementary q***r school boys.

The Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS) invites you, your students, friends, lovers to submit a proposal and/or attend the conference on Jotería Pleasure. The deadline is September 29th and the conference will take place on February 15-18th at Cal State University, Los Angeles.

Here is the link to the proposal description and submission form: https://www.ajaas.com/call-for-proposals-2024