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Fall 2020
Meeting #1
September 29, 2020
Reading:
“Academia in the Time of COVID-19: Towards an Ethics of Care” by Esteve Corbera , Isabelle Anguelovski , Jordi Honey-Rosés & Isabel RuizMallén
https://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 It’s Fun”: How COVID-19-Related School and Childcare Closures are Damaging Mothers’ Well-Being by Jessica Calarco, Elizabeth Anderson, Emily Meanwell, and Amelia Knopf
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jyvk4/
We discussed challenges of balancing the roles of mother and professor and working to stay sane in these difficult times.
Meeting #3
November 23, 2020
We discussed our successes and challenges balancing work and home life this semester while working primarily (if not exclusively) away from campus. We talked about lessons we learned from this year to shape our practices and choices next year and planned for the fig next semester.
Additionally, we discussed ways our identities shape the way we are perceived in the classroom and professionally.
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 strategies we have used to support our students and to take care of our bodies, health, and sanity.
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 evaluations, both the current research and our own experiences.
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, ways to maintain positive relationships with students, as well as safety and surveillance. We also talked about what it means to be a public intellectual and professor. We bounced around ideas concerning identities for both professors and students.
May 7, 12:40-1:40pm
We discussed issues that have come up in our classroom and professional careers where our identities, bodies, and sexualities have had an impact on the way we have seen things and the ways we have been treated. We discussed mentoring others and creating supportive communities and conversations.
May 28, 12:40-1:40pm
We talked about race, class, and gender in hiring, promotion, and tenure and brainstormed ways to support each other and junior faculty more broadly through promotion and tenure, realizing ways people with different social locations and identities experience these milestones differently and may be treated and seen differently.
