These conference proceedings are based on the 2021 Deakin University Postgraduate and ECR Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Studies conference: Imagining New Futures: Provocations in Gender and Sexuality Studies. The papers draw together work from literary studies, postcolonial theory, management studies, education, media studies and more to investigate how social justice movements, minority media, and feminist/queer communities have continued to grow and reshape themselves to new challenges. The writers investigate how queer folk have navigated the muddy political waters of a hostile world that sometimes extends liberal affordances of legitimacy and acceptance to queer and feminist bodies, often with an insistence on the value and importance of difference. Crucially, they rehearse a tension central to gender and sexuality studies between the need for social and political transformation against more humble liberal values of inclusivity.
IMAGINING NEW FUTURES
Current issue
Conference proceedings, Vol 6, No 1 (2023) editors: Jack Kirne, Emma Whatman, Gilbert Caluya, Hannah Garden
Associate editor: Elizabeth Little
Editorial
Introduction: Imagining New Futures in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Imagining New Futures “The work presented demonstrates a growing interest in inclusive projects in education, health and other institutions, such…
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Alternative Models Of Care And Sex Work: Sex Workers’ Activism Disputing Public Policy In Brazil
Alternative Models Of Care And Sex Work: Sex Workers’ Activism Disputing Public Policy In Brazil “social movements’ resistance but also their public policy alternatives often emerge in contestation to how…
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Experts of seduction: Construction of performable ‘love player’ characters in men’s advice manga
Experts of seduction: Construction of performable ‘love player’ characters in men’s advice manga “A highly specialised semiotic repertoire connects a growing transcultural discourse produced by self-proclaimed seduction experts, who promote…
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The amazing true story of where she and they hide: Regulation of gender and female sexuality in sexual education picture books.
The amazing true story of where she and they hide: Regulation of gender and female sexuality in sexual education picture books. “I argue that two information picture books, Fiona Katauskas’…
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Queering the Census: Demographic considerations of adding (and changing) questions on gender and sexuality
Queering the Census: Demographic considerations of adding (and changing) questions on gender and sexuality “I look at the current precedents and considerations for capturing the LGBTQ+ population in substantively meaningful…
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Queer and Crip Instagram Practice: Rejecting Compulsory Cis-het-ability
Queer and Crip Instagram Practice: Rejecting Compulsory Cis-het-ability “Social media can facilitate queer and crip counterpublic-making, identity formation and community building..." MON INCE University of Melbourne Bio Mon Ince…
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Disruptive Brides and (un)Manly Eunuchs: Reading the Bible as genderqueer to reimagine inclusive faith
Disruptive Brides and (un)Manly Eunuchs: Reading the Bible as genderqueer to reimagine inclusive faith “When Christians re-emphasise the ‘feminine’ and gender-fluid images and people which have always been present in…
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Women’s football, hope labour and mainstream-independent media collaborations
Women’s football, hope labour and mainstream-independent media collaborations “I want to question the separation between gender performance and gender performativity, pondering what opportunities would arise if there was an expansion…
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Fiction as Gender
Fiction as Gender: Historicising the intersections between creative writing, gender portrayal, and gender identity “I want to question the separation between gender performance and gender performativity, pondering what opportunities would…
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Beyond Consent towards Sexual Agency
Beyond Consent towards Sexual Agency: Queer Insights on Negotiating Sex “ sexual agency framework may be more fruitful in exploring more ethical sexual communication practices beyond consent .…” Sophie Hindes University…
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