30627 - I’ll Labor How I Choose: Queering the Framework of Futuristic Laboring Practices

Description

The future of work is one in which people’s labor must constitute body autonomy. For this proposed thematic session, a bodily autonomy perspective of work seeks to advance analyses of how people labor in manners that correspond to their identity, abilities/disabilities, or political and social ideas around liberation. Broadly defined, this includes scholarship and research around sex work, entrepreneur endeavors, care work, bodywork, micro-businesses, organizing, etc., and centers on the experiences and choices of historically marginalized workers – nonbinary, trans, immigrant, differently abled/disabled, and racialized, to combat and challenge external subjugation within a capitalist structure. By engaging in such analyses, what is realized is an understanding of the multiple ways in which people are trying to survive capitalism and other forms of power (i.e., racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, etc.) to define their existence, capabilities, and work on their terms. Because capitalism reproduces devasting forms of dispossessed, commodified, and exploitative labor, we must highlight how workers themselves are changing the parameters of work that create pathways for more protected material livelihoods and fully actualized forms of selfhood.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Christopher Rogers, California State University-Sacramento

Panelists

• Christopher Rogers, California State University-Sacramento

• Michelle Marie Christian, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• Celeste Curington, Boston University

• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Jullanar Zakiyyah Williams, University of California Merced

• Liat Ben-Moshe, University of Illinois-Chicago

Session Organizer

• Christopher Rogers, California State University-Sacramento