CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Call for Workshops, Papers, Performance, and Art
Femme2008: The Architecture of Femme
Chicago, IL
August 15th - 17th, 2008
www.femmecollective.com
Femme2008: The Architecture of Femme is a multi-threaded conference and forum for those who
think about, talk about, and create Femme as a queer gender and identity.
Following our Femme2006 conference in San Francisco, where over 400 femmes and allies gathered for three days of
workshops, panels, and performances, we again invite community members, artists, academics, homemakers, geeks, techies, activists, femmes of all kinds, and their allies to continue the conversation by participating in Femme 2008 as presenters and participants.
We are invested in having Femme2008 continue to reflect the diversity and complexity of femme gender, identity and ontributions. We hope for this conference to be a community building event, as well as an exploration and celebration of what it means to
build and live queer femme identities.
Submissions of all kinds are welcome, particularly submissions by femmes. We encourage proposals by and for people of color, working-class people, fat folks, and people with disabilities. We encourage submissions that work outside and alongside identity
and gender, as well as those reflecting directly upon identity and gender.
Femme2008 will continue the community dialogue begun at Femme2006. In particular, we hope that the intersections of femme with race, region, class, access, ability, privilege, and marginalization will be talked about, given space, meditated upon,
constructed, and deconstructed.
We began this conference in 2006 out of a desire to see femme explored and discussed from a variety of perspectives. We wanted a conference that held the complexities of Queer Femme as its central focus, while building community. We feel we accomplished that in 2006, and in 2008, we want to continue to build femme community and bridges, supporting each
other across borders and differences.
We hope to draw participants from across disciplinary, medium, and social boundaries. We encourage submissions from anyone interested, regardless of gender or sexual identity. We do ask that you read our mission statement before submitting.
We are are soliciting contributions from anyone
interested, including (but not limited to):
> workshops
> performances
> research presentations
> skill shares
> activist & organizational topics
> visual art
> video or film
Submission deadline is May 1, 2008.