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The Clothesline Project
An interactive art exhibit honoring victims and survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence. The CSDI welcomes you to partake in the clothesline project, make a shirt (all supplies located in the CSDI) , add YOUR story, you are NOT alone. The opening ceremony will take place Thursday, October 3rd at 11 am at the Seal.
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Nina West, as seen on RuPaul's Drag Race is coming to Miami this Thursday, October 3rd at 9 p.m. (Doors open at 8:30 p.m.). Tickets are free, but they are required. Head over to on instagram to secure your ticket today!

We've extended our deadline for submissions to the 2019 US Midwest SWIP Conference (IN CINCINNATI!) to Sept. 1st. Please distribute widely and submit!
U.S. MIDWEST SWIP 2019 CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 1-3 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, OHIO
Call for Abstracts:
The Midwest U.S. Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers in all areas of feminist philosophy, theory, and praxis, including but not limited to ethics, social/political philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, epistemology, and metaphysics. U.S. Midwest SWIP is interested in enriching discussions about contemporary social and political issues, and we welcome work that interrogates how such issues intersect with race, gender, ability, and class.
For our 2019 conference, USMSWIP is pleased to welcome Serene Khader as our keynote speaker.
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit an extended abstract of 800-1000 words with a preliminary bibliography (We will also accept full paper submissions of no more than 3000 words). Please send all submissions as MS word documents, and include as a separate attachment, a cover page with the title, institutional affiliation, rank or occupation, and email address of the presenters to: [email protected] by September 1st, 2019.
In light of recent events, we are particularly interested in submissions that engage with the lives and experiences of q***r, trans*, le***an, gay, and bisexual people of color, and will give preference to submissions that address this topic.
Other potential themes include:
Mass Incarceration, Cradle-to-prison Pipeline, and Carceral Feminisms
Sexual Assault and Gender-based Violence
Police and State Violence against People of Color and Trans* People
Coloniality and Decolonial Methodologies
Queer/Crip Theory and Disability Studies
Insurrectional Political Action and Uprisings
Reproductive Justice
Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Muzzling/Silencing of Climate Research
Indigeneity and Indigenous Rights
Immigration, Assimilation, and Statelessness
Austerity Measures and Neoliberalism
Food Justice and Food Politics
Social Epistemology, esp. investigations into and critical readings of epistemology of ignorance and epistemology of resistance literature
Pluralist and/or Multiplicitous theories of Identity

The program committee gives preference to women and members of other marginalized groups who are working on feminist projects that engage multiple axes of oppression. We also welcome the work of scholars at any stage in their careers.
GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION
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Host Institution
Department of Philosophy
University of Cincinnati
https://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy.html
Local Arrangement Organizer
Sahar Heydari Fard
[email protected]
Program Organizer
Dr. Meredith Verrochi
[email protected]

Philosophy

This Thursday!

Thinking about your Fall Schedule, take a look at this MAC/WGS 461

On Feb 22, the WGS at MU Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program hosted its all-day 17th annual Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality (RCGS) Symposium, with paper presentations, panels, roundtable discussions, performances, and the keynote by Dr. Sami Schalk.
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Global & Intercultural Studies at Miami University

Did you miss the WGS Symposium?
No worries,this article gives a brief summary of this year's successful Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality Symposium.
Hope to see you next year!

Miami's annual Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality Symposium features important conversations about the influence of individual identity on contemporary society On February 22, the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program hosted its 17th annual Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (RCGS) Symposium, an all-day event with paper presentations, panels, roundtable discussions, and performances at Miami University's Shriver Center in Oxford