Posts tagged sexuality

MORE sex, then…

Interesting. My last post on this topic – trans sexuality – which was mostly the dipping of a toe into water, evoked a bit more controversy than i expected.

In part, i think, because the language was not entirely familiar: one peep appeared to think that “sexual narrative” was journo-speak for smutty story. But also because of some of the reasons i alluded at and more.

So i’m going to take a second bite of the cherry here (ooer, missus!) and try and put my thoughts in order. Read the rest of this entry »

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no sex, please; we’re trans

As so often, it is a comment on a related issue that has set me off on this one. So while this post is about sex, trans and porngraphic imagery, it should not be taken as direct response to the original.

Merely a train of thought leaving the station tangentially. It starts with an appeal to keep direct pornographic linkage out of a serious treans forum. Read the rest of this entry »

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Event: Critsex up north: sexuality and age (june)

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Publication: Genre, sexualité & société (French)

Genre, sexualité & société, revue électronique, à comité de lecture, pluridisciplinaire et internationale, de langue française, entièrement dédiée aux recherches sur le genre et la sexualité, lance un appel à articles pour les prochains numéros à paraître (rubrique « VARIA »).

Tout type de contribution inédite sera étudiée, qu’elle provienne de jeunes chercheur-e-s ou de chercheur-e-s confirmé-e-s.

La revue Genre, sexualité & société souscrit pleinement aux principes de l’évaluation par les pair-e-s. Tous les articles proposés sont soumis de façon anonyme.

Pour soumettre un article, suivre les instructions en ligne.

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Where’s Jane?

Mostly, recently, hibernating.

April so far has been a fraught month, with loads of work and loads of other stuff going on, including, this weekend, a major conference on Sex and Sexuality in the media – Onscenity – at which i am both presenting (in about an hour’s time) and acting as onsight press and publicity person.

For the next 48 hours or so, therefore, i am going to be fairly unfaithful to this blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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Event: Love your body (April/May)

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Event: Girls and digital culture: transnational reflections – Call for papers (March)

This is an international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London on September 13 & 14 , 2012

Papers will be welcomed from across the social sciences, arts and humanities, including sociology, geography, media and communication studies, digital humanities, web science, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies and postcolonial theory, as well as from artists, activists, grassroots and community initiatives and policy makers/think tanks.

Themes of the conference include:

Girls experiences of digital culture
Gender and social media
Sexuality
Activism and politics
Identity and subjectivity
Development
Gender and blogging
Gender, play and digital culture
Power and digital divisions
Convergence
Intersectional and transnational approaches

Abstracts of up to 200 words should be sent to girlsanddigitalculture@gmail.com, by 31st March 2012

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Event: ‘Children, sexuality, sexualisation’ – Call for chapters (April)

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Event: Critical Sexology Seminar: Sexuality and Time (March)

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Event: Summer Institute for Sexuality, Culture and Politics

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