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.