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Call for Submissions
Working Title: Spilling Over: A Fat, Queer Anthology
Submission Deadline:
Despite the attention given by queer studies to the materiality of bodies and the cultural and social inscriptions that designate them, still a dearth of both scholarship and literature exists around intersections of gender, sexuality, and fatness. As fat studies begins to emerge as a viable academic location of inquiry, questions surface as to how fat bodies, deemed “excessive” in their trespasses of size and space, create even more complex subject positions when compounded by queer desires. This proposed anthology seeks contributions addressing junctions of “fat” and “queer” in pieces that consider the representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality and also writings considering the theoretical conceptions of these intricate subjectivities. Spilling Over will reflect the notions of excess, boundaries, and containment implied by the labels “fat” and “queer” both singularly and collectively. In the form of scholarly writing and creative non-fiction pieces, essay submissions might consider (but are not limited to):
- theorizing the concept of “excess” as it pertains to fatness and queerness
- fat and queer identities; personal narratives; reclaiming “fat” and “queer”
- notions of (in)visibility, hypervisibility, and passing and/or privilege
- intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, (dis)ability, age, and religion
- the economics of the obesity “epidemic” and the diet industry
- fat, queer art and performance; performativity
- pleasure, sex-positivity, eroticizing non-normative bodies
- acceptance movements, political activism, resistance
- the engagement of feminism with fatness
- global, transnational, transcultural constructions of fat, queer bodies and lives
- critical reflections of fatness and queerness in media, literature, film, music, and visual arts
- the rhetoric of fat oppression, fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, responding to and/or addressing hate speech
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2 comments:
would love to submit. why have I never come across your blog before? I'll be back
lina, you should definitely submit! let me know if you have any questions. i'm so glad you found my blog. i'm excited to read yours!
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