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Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference
Care and Joy in Precarious Times: The 3rd Annual WGSS Interdisciplinary Conference
The USF Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies invites the USF community to attend the Care and Joy in Precarious Times Conference on February 21, 2025, at the USF Tampa campus.
As Audre Lorde once wrote, “Caring for myself is not a self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Lorde was writing about living with breast and liver cancers and about her life and work as a queer Black woman. Honoring Lorde’s legacy in the contemporary moment asks us to rethink the possibilities of care and joy that emerge from authenticity, community, accountability, resistance, and resilience.
Care & Joy in Precarious Times asks us to rethink questions such as: What does it mean to care for the self? How can we care for ourselves and one another responsibly? In what ways does joy show up in times of precarity? What kinds of self-reflection and responsibility do these uncertain times call for? In what ways are care and joy acts of resistance or preservation? In what ways are acts of care and joy mutually constituted? In what ways can acts/outcomes of care and joy transcend embodied labor? In what ways might care and joy be politicized?
Important Dates
- Notifications of submission acceptance: January 21, 2025
- Conference registration deadline: February 3, 2025
- Conference: February 21, 2025
Conference Location & Time
The Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference will take place in TECO Hall, located in the David C. Anchin Center on the USF Tampa campus. The conference day will be from 9:30am-6:00pm.
Schedule
The conference schedule will be available here on January 21, 2025.
Registration
Registration is now open for the conference.
Disability Accommodations
If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in a WGSS event, please contact us at 813-974-5520 at least five (5) working days prior to the event.