Race and Sexuality (12/15/02; 5/31/03-6/2/03)

The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association will convene its annual conference May 31-June 2, 2003 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The conference coincides with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. This year's conference theme is "Conflict and Cooperation."

To that end, a panel titled "All the Men Are White, Looks Like the Women Are Too, But Some of Us Know Better" is being proposed that will discuss how this theme of conflict and cooperation is reflected and/or refracted through the lens of race and sexuality.

Papers might explore (this is a partial list; presenters are, of course, welcome to discuss their own thoughts about the panel's focus):

*Racism in the LGBTQ communities
*Homophobia and homoignorance in communities of color
*Literary representations of LGBTQ people of color
*How critical race theory and "queer studies" can be integrated
*How the intersection(s) of race and sexuality are negotiated through theory and/or practice
*Eminem/Marshall Mathers/Slim Shady
*Interracial dating in LGBTQ communities
*The representation of people of color in gay pornography
*(Re)Viewing the Stonewall Uprising from the perspective of LGBTQ people of color
*The virtual dearth of LGBTQ individuals of color on such ostensibly groundbreaking television programs as "Ellen," "Will and Grace," and "Queer As Folk"
To allow time for audience interaction, papers must be read in a twenty-minute time-frame. Please submit abstracts, completed papers, or questions by December 15 to (e-mail submissions preferred):

Chris Bell
7752 South Luella Avenue
Chicago, IL 60649
USA
tooferbell@yahoo.com

All participants must be CLGSA members at the time of their presentations. For more information about membership registration and/or the conference, please visit http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~clgsa/.