1) Make Your Voice Heard
Join NWSA's executive
director Allison Kimmich and contribute to public debates. Learn why she dreads Women's History
Month and what she hopes to change for next year.
Read her OpEd in the Philadelphia Enquirer
Learn to write an op-ed
yourself as part of The Op-Ed Project Training at NWSA's 2010 conference.
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2) New Plenary Session: Complicating the Queer
Featuring Juana Maria Rodriguez and Gayatri Gopinath
Saturday, November 13
Juana Maria Rodriguez Juana Maria Rodriguez  | is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley where she is also the Director of the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
She is the author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU 2003) and has published numerous
articles related to her research interests in sexuality studies, queer activism in a transnational context, critical race theory, technology and media arts, and Latin and Caribbean studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the discursive uses of sex in queer politics and culture.
Gayatri Gopinath  | With research interests that include queer studies, post colonial studies, and feminist theory, Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
She is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005), and has published articles on gender, sexuality and South Asian diasporic culture in journals such as GLQ, Social Text, Positions, and Diaspora. Her most recent publication is entitled "Archive, Affect and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions," forthcoming in the anthology Political Emotions (eds. Ann Cvetkovich, et al, Routledge, 2010). She is currently at work on a new project on critical regionalities and comparative queer studies in the global south.
More details, events and speakers on our conference site.
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3) NWSA 2010
Registration Launch
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start and register early.
Registration for the 2010 Conference is now open.
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