3548 - Embodied Resistance: Activism and Protest for Social Justice (Cosponsored with the Section on Sociology of Sexualities)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

We invite submissions that address body politics and social justice. Broadly defined, we are interested in papers that examine embodied resistance, activism, and protest connected to marginalized sex and sexualities. Ideal papers for this panel will employ an intersectional lens. We encourage submissions that document how people use their bodies to resist or disrupt oppressive forces embedded in toxicities of racism, cissexism, xenophobia, heterosexism, mononormativism, nativism, sexism, ableism, classism, and/or nationalism. (Cosponsored with Sexualities Section.)

Sub Unit

• Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment / Embodied Resistance: Activism and Protest for Social Justice (Cosponsored with Section on Sociology of Sexualities)

Session Organizers

• Apoorva Ghosh, University of California-Irvine

• Kjerstin Gruys, University of Nevada, Reno

Presider

• Sonny M. Nordmarken, University of Houston

Individual Presentations

• Black Swans: Black Female Ballet Dancers and the Management of Emotional and Aesthetic Labor - Sekani Robinson, University of California-Santa Barbara

• Border Queers/Queer Borders: Dragtivism with The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Soka University of America

• Secrets and Ties: The Power of Collective Resistance in Underground LGBT Social Movements - Jeff T. Sheng, Stanford University

Discussant

• Victoria L. Pitts-Taylor, Wesleyan University