Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 20:15:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Tarver Black Nations/Queer Nations? Lesbian and Gay Sexualities in the African Diaspora: A Working Conference. New York City, October 6,7,8, 1994 Through a combination of roundtables, panel presentations, worksessions and cultural events, "Black nations/Queer Nations? Lesbian and Gay Sexualities in the African Diaspora: A Working Conference" will provide an occasion for conversation and organizing across communities both inside and outside the African diaspora. The conference will bring together workers, intellectuals, political organizers, scholars, artists, students and everyone committed to the struggle of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people of African descent to claim and live our lives. Our goal is to prove an environment which will facilitate collective discussion and analysis across the many communities of the diaspora where we actively struggle toward our own empowerment. The conference planning committee thus requests that proposals include a brief statement of the strategic and practical relevance of the proposed topic to sexual politics within the African diaspora. The conference planning committee invites submissions of proposals for papers and presentations that discuss, interrogate and contest these and related issues: * The Politics of Black Sexualities * Health, AIDS, Death and Dying * Drug and Alcohol Use/Abuse * Black Feminism as a Catalyst for Political Change * Sexism? Ableism? Classism? Ethnic and National Chauvinism among Black Gay Men and Lesbians * Immigration, Migration, an the State Regulation of Sexualities * Heterosexism of Black Scholarship * Homoerotics and Africa * Lesbian and Gay Childhood in the African Diaspora * Queer Sexualities and the Politics of Parenting * Spiritual Belief and Practices * Black Queer Imagery * Art, Culture, Politics, and Sexuality * Queer Sexuality in/and Black Youth culture * Race, Sexuality, and Work ( Sex Pleasure and the Erotic * Race, Sexuality, and Identity * Science and the Formation of Racial Sexual Identities * The Impact of Lesbian and Gay Movements on Cultural Nationalisms * Rethinking the Basic Categories of Lesbian and Gay Studies * Building Feminist, Anti-Racist, Anti-Heterosexist, Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Movements * Sexual Freedom in/and International Liberation Politics. Black Nations?/Queer Nations? is made possible by the gendered support and assistance of The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Please send submission and queries to BNQN, c/o CLAGS, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. Proposal Deadline: May 31, 1994