The University of South Dakota’s Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (Web)

Venue: University of South Dakota
Time: March 12-14, 2019
Proposals by December 15, 2018

In the past year, the #MeToo movement catalyzed an international discussion about continuing widespread sexual harassment and sexual violence. It has also raised awareness about the context in which stories are told, heard or silenced.

People have asked a variety of questions in efforts to understand how and why marginalized figures are able to speak, be seen and be heard. What role does community play? Narrative and discursive frameworks? Who is being represented and who remains invisible? Where does lack of coverage persist? How does storytelling function as healing and self-care, as a form of resistance, but what risks does it also invite?

This year, the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program invites individuals across disciplines to present their work on (Un)Told Stories and grapple with the personal and societal politics of storytelling at the intersection of gender and sexuality and other marginalized group identities, both today and historically. Read more … (Web)