*CFP* "GLOBAL TV IMAGES OF FEMALE MASCULINITY IN THE 2010S", VOL. 15., NO. 3., THE SPECIAL FORUM OF COMMUNICATION, CULTURE AND CRITIQUE

In the past decade, TV representations of female masculinity have proliferated and diversified worldwide. Notable examples include the white lesbian landowner Anne Lister in the historical drama Gentleman Jack (BBC/HBO, UK/USA, 2019-), the African American lesbian Denise in the web series Master of None (Netflix, USA, 2015-2017), the tomboyish participants of the girl group elimination shows Youth With You 2 (iQiyi, China, 2020) and Sisters Who Make Waves (Mango TV, China, 2020), the cross-dressing female protagonist raised as a boy in the drama Bromance (SETTV, Taiwan, 2015-2016), the butch lesbian beauty contest segment, “That’s My Tomboy,” in the Philippine daytime variety show It’s Showtime (ABS-CBN, Philippines, 2009-), and the Taiwanese-American K-pop girl band member, Amber Liu who has been famous for her gender-nonconforming persona and homosocial-natured group singing and dancing performances on Asian TV in the early 2010s. 

Along with this surge in masculine female TV culture, there has been a growing body of scholarship on media and public imaginaries of female masculinity in different geo-locales since the late 1990s. J. Jack Halberstam (1998) famously noted that “far from being an imitation of maleness,” female masculinity is one of many “alternative masculinities” that manifests a continuum of various masculine traits and identities embodied or enacted by cis-females, such as tomboyism and butchness, the definitions and calibration of which are often socioculturally and racially modelled (p. 1). Moreover, the culturally specific understandings and imaginaries of female masculinity have been important threads in world gender studies and global queering theory, as research by Helen Leung (2002), Audrey Yue (2008), Todd A. Henry (2020), and others has discussed.

*CFP* "SEX, GENDER, SEXUALITY AND COMMUNICATION", VOLUME 30, ISSUE 5, REVISTA PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN

Profesional de la Información seeks cutting-edge research studies, theoretical essays, and state-of-the-art critical review articles for a special issue dedicated to sex, gender, sexuality, and communication to be published in Volume 30, Issue 5 (September-October 2021) to be published in the journal. Articles with a pedagogical focus, especially those that elucidate specific concepts, technologies, or processes, will also be considered. This special issue will celebrate methodological and theoretical plurality, with the primary goal being to publish an excellent collection of research and theory that advances thinking about sex, genders, sexualities, and communication.

To that end, the editor will accept manuscripts featuring research using quantitative and/or qualitative social scientific methods; critique-oriented methods such as rhetorical, cultural, or media criticism; and scholarship that is highly creative, especially as it advances theory.

 

Manuscripts submitted for consideration must clearly advance communicative aspects of one of the following special issue areas:

*CFP* "GENDER AND EMBODIMENT IN NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT", SPECIAL ISSUE, FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS

According to the United Nations, more than 70 million people have been displaced worldwide. The UN monitors statistics on internally displaced persons, refugees, and asylum-seekers, and within those groups there are nuanced experiences of displacement based on gender, race, sexual expression, class, religion, and ability. Experience of forced displacement—whether because of civil unrest, natural disaster, government-induced development, or climate change—is more and more a shared experience, and the narratives of these experiences can both bring together and challenge us. The recent global Coronavirus pandemic affects us all, and yet it exacerbates the inequities in medical care, services, and ability to adhere to stay-at-home mandates. Forced in-placement is another form of bodily control highlighting the ways vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected by crises.

For this special issue of Feminist Encounters, we focus on interdisciplinary approaches to displacement, mobility, migration, and resettlement, and the embodied narratives produced around these issues. The body often serves as the site where discourses of identity and discourses of power overlap and intersect. With an understanding that displacement involves the movement of actual bodies across space, place, and time, we seek essays and other creative works that address the complexities of embodied displacement from interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches.

*CFP* “NEW DISABILITY POETICS”, SPECIAL ISSUE, AMODERN JOURNAL

This issue draws together poets, critics, and hybrid practitioners in the fields of contemporary poetics and disability studies to posit new approaches to experimental aesthetic practices that interrogate and represent the social, political, and mediated realities of disability. The issue will bring together work on contemporary poets and artists with new takes on earlier experimental poetry, and will build on the work of Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, and Michael Northen, editors of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011) to include new work in disability poetics from a wide range of aesthetic practices, media, and orientations. 

We welcome papers that situates disability in dialogue with analyses of class, race, sexuality, immigration status, and other forms of social precarity, as well as work that situates disability poetics within local, national, transnational, and planetary scales of instability and shift. We encourage essays that will read disability across fields and situate the body as a site of lived experience within environmental and social systems that press upon it. This special issue is in dialogue with the New Disability Poetics Symposium, that was held at the University of Pennsylvania in October of 2018. As a continuation of that symposium, we encourage new points of collaboration between disability studies and poetics that provide new avenues of inquiry for work by poets and theorists with disabilities.