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Fall 2020
Meeting #1September 29, 2020 Reading:“Academia in the Time of COVID-19: Towards an Ethics of Care” by Esteve Corbera , Isabelle Anguelovski , Jordi Honey-Rosés & Isabel RuizMallénhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2020.1757891 We discussed challenges of moving our work and teaching online and how to center caring in the decisions we make. Meeting #2 October 26, 2020 Reading:“Let’s Not Pretend […]
Spring 2020
working on maintaining our fig in this time of coronavirus. we will support each other in the transition to emergency distance education, as well as focus on self-care during these stressful times. Meeting #1 4/24/20, Meeting #2 5/7/20, Meeting #3 6/5/20 We discussed issues that have arisen through the move to online teaching/learning and the […]
Fall 2019
This semester we are reading Tressie McMillan Cottom’s book Thick. New members always welcome! Meetings: 9/24/19 1:50-2:50pm We discussed the book as well as the legacy of the (former) KCTL Sexualities Reading Group and its impacts on our teaching, scholarship, and professional selves. 11/25/19 1:50-2:50pm We discussed racial bias in the classroom and in course […]
Spring 2019
The Bodies and Sexualities Faculty Interest Group began meeting in Spring 2019. We are very excited for this new FIG! We will be reading and discussing Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions by Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton (Editors) March 28 3:30-4:30pm At our first meeting, we discussed sexual harassment on campus, […]
