From the Lesbian Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association:
The Lesbian Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association invites submissions for a sponsored session on “The Revolutionary Lesbians of the 1970s,” to be held at the annual conference in Milwaukee, WI on November 12-15, 2015.
Panel Title: The Revolutionary Lesbian 1970s
Conference Sub-Theme: Precarity, Distortion/Dispossession
The 1970s is well known as a particularly intense time for radical lesbian activism and new experimental lesbian sexualities, lifestyles, cultural production and living arrangements. The “Lesbian 70s” is now the object of a growing scholarship which has generated panels at professional meetings as well as some conferences on their own. However, until now, specifically revolutionary lesbian-positioned analyses, activisms and practices of the 1970s, by lesbians of color and lesbians of all colors, have received less attention. And yet, to remember them and the solidarities they created could be very fruitful for our times. This panel engages with 1970s revolutionary lesbian analyses of how multiple relations of power such as gender, sexuality, capitalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, genocide, racism, religion, ethnicity and specism, operate together, inseparably. It also addresses the revolutionary activisms and transnational solidarities in the 1970s of lesbians
– as individuals and in lesbian groups- within and allied with people’s liberation and anti-colonial movements in the U.S. and across the globe.
Some keyword topics might include:
*Historical erasures of revolutionary lesbians of color, and of all colors, of the 1970s
*race, class, colonial and sexual politics of (non)citational violence
*production of knowledge, concept-terms and re-languaging by revolutionary lesbians of the 1970s
*revolutionary lesbian 1970s modalities of transformative resistance
* 1970s revolutionary lesbians within, out of and allied with people’s movements for liberation in the U.S. and transnationally
*1970s revolutionary lesbians’ analytics of oppression, repression and the inseparability of multiple relations of power (gender, race, class, cpitalism, imperialiam, sexuality, colonialism, specism, etc)
*coalitions, collaborations, alliances, assemblages
*politics of alter-modalities of inter-subjectivity and community
*politics of 1970s revolutionary lesbians living together
*lesbian issues and actions of revolutionary lesbian 1970s
*1970s revolutionary lesbian re-inventions of sexualities and the erotic
*illegibilities of 1970s revolutionary lesbians today
*new epistemologies and methods for understanding 1970s revolutionary lesbians
*prior and current precarities of revolutionary lesbian theorists and activists of the 1970s
*1970s revolutionary lesbians and the State (State repressions, prison, exile, as well as lesbian analytical and activist responses)
*why remember the revolutionary 1970s today?
*the revolutionary lesbian 1970s and feminist, lesbian, queer and transgender inter-generational community and politics
To submit, please send a proposed title and an abstract of no more than 150 words, along with a current CV to the session organizer, Paola Bacchetta at pbacchetta@berkeley.edu and the Lesbian Caucus chair, Jaime Cantrell at jaimec@olemiss.edu no later than 5pm on February 18th, 2015.
See here for the link for the CFP for other proposals.
