CFP: Queerness and Violence (2/19/07; 6/2/07)
CFP: Queerness and Violence
Queer Studies Graduate Symposium
University of California, Davis
June 2, 2007
The war on terror has become the monolithic face of violence in dominant
cultural discourse at the same time that hate crime legislation has been
positioned as a marker of progress for the gay rights movement. Both of
these moves create an obsession with safety while simultaneously ignoring
other violences, such as police violence, domestic violence, the prison
industrial complex, and violences produced by medical establishments,
that continuously take and harm lives.