Racializing Space, Gendering Place: Intersectional Challenges in Gaming Research.

Utilizing Nirmal Puwar’s concept of space invaders, I explore the interconnected relationship between space and bodies, wherein specifically minoritized populations are stigmatized and framed as deviant when they are occupying spaces constructed by and for privileged bodies. The concept of digital space invaders refers to the process wherein minority bodies residing in institutionalized spaces are considered to be out of place, becoming ‘space invaders’, disrupting spaces and locations ‘which have not been “reserved” for them’. In the current context, I utilize the metaphor of the space invader to consider Black women’s occupation in digital gaming communities. Employing both Black feminist traditions with ‘post’- colonial feminisms, I draw connections in how these women are perceived, exploring the reproduction of deeply rooted prejudices and colonial legacies expressed in territorial concepts of belonging.

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Whitehall CB 118

ENS Undergrad Meeting

Choose one of these two dates to attend:



Wednesday, Aug 31st or Friday, Sept 2nd



Both meetings will be from 3:00 - 4:00 pm in Room 301 of the Whitehall Classroom Building



Contact Tony Stallins if you have questions.

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Room 301 Whitehall Classroom Building

Black Women's Conference: Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities

Please register for the conference at:  https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kd-2oqjwrHNK456UpiyUVBxjL_0IVpm…;

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the links to join the conference. 

 

27th Annual Black Women’s Conference:

Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities

April 15, 2022



10-10:15 AM:  Welcome

Anastasia C. Curwood, Director, CIBS and AAAS

10:15-11:45AM:  Covid, Clapbacks, and Curation:  Blackness in the Digital Era

Kim Gallon, Purdue University,

Regina Hamilton, UK,

Kishonna Gray, UK

Moderated by TBD

12:30-1:45PM: Appalachia Ain’t White: Locating Black Feminists in the Region

Jillean McCommons, University of Virginia

Enkeshi El-Amin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

Moderated by Kishonna Gray, UK

2:00-3:15PM Reading Buy Black: An Author and Critics Conversation

LaKisha Simmons, University of Michigan

Oneka LaBennett, University of Southern California

Aria Halliday, UK

Moderated by DaMaris Hill, UK

3:30-4:30PM:  Keynote: Nazera Wright:  Digital Gi(rl)s: Mapping Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

Moderated by Aria Halliday, UK

4:30-4:45PM:  Wrap Up

Gallery

 

 

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Virtual- registration required

Sexual Violence and the State: A Racial History of Legal Castration

Friday, April 8th
 
Dr. Greta LaFLeur, Associate Professor of American Studies, Yale University
 
11 am, Gaines Center for the Humanities, Bingham-Davis House
Work-in-Progress Discussion with Dr. LaFleur: “Trans Feminine Histories, Piece By Piece” 
All are welcome! Download a copy of the essay to be discussed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-t89dqjpHiyiZxmcsPSoDHdz2Ccpzwn/view?…;
 
2pm, The Cornerstone - UKFCU Esports Theater
Keynote Address: "Sexual Violence and the State: A Racial History of Legal Castration"
 
CO-SPONSORS: English Department, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Early American Literature
 
Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), reveals how eighteenth-century race science contributed to emerging sciences of sex in the colonial Atlantic world. Other publications include Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell UP, 2021) and an award-winning special issue of American Quarterly, “Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas.” Dr. LaFleur is currently at work on a new project, tentatively titled A Queer History of Sexual Violence (under contract with The University of Chicago Press), which examines the role of cultural and legal responses to sexual violence in the development of modern understandings of sexuality. Her works-in-progress discussion will be drawn from this project.
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The Cornerstone - UKFCU Esports Theater
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