SSSP GENDER DIVISION 2024 SUMMER Meeting Minutes 
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 12:00 PM PT via Zoom
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Present: Pallavi Banerjee, Meghna Bhat, Melinda Chen, Laurel Westbrook, Lauren Danielowski, Raquel Guzman Delerme, Taylor Sumpter, Raphia Mallick, Ange La Furcia, Amani Awwad, Asmita Asaavari, Kat Fuller, Sarah Jane Brubaker, Anthony J Stone, and Veronica Salcedo
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Meeting Minutes
1. Welcome and Introductions


2. Announcing our Award Recipients
   * Raquel Guzman Delerme’s “State Predation?: How the Carceral Care Economy Harms Black and Latine Mothers” with the SSSP Gender Division’s Student Paper Award
   * Paper Award Honorable Mention: “The Lived Experiences of Beauty and Grammars of the Maricada in the Colombian Insular Caribbean,” Ange La Furcia, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
   * Article Award Winner: Westbrook, Laurel. (2023). “The Matrix of Violence: Intersectionality and Necropolitics in the Murder of Transgender People in the United States, 1990–2019”. Gender & Society, 37(3), 413-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231171172
   * Article Award Honorable Mention: Chen Melinda. “‘Are You-?’ ‘Are You?’ Queer Advocacy at Contemporary Neoliberal Rape Crisis Centers”. Violence Against Women, 29(15-16), 3072-3100. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231192606


   * All four award Recipients were present at the meeting and shared a few words with the group. 
   * Pallavi thanked all the award committee reviewers for both awards:
   * Student Paper Award: Thanks to Laurel Westbrook, Michae Halpin, and Melinda Chen for volunteering their time to review the applications and for their contributions
   * Outstanding Article Award: Thanks to Sarah Jane Brubaker, Lauren Danielowski, and Kayla Martensen for volunteering their time to review the applications and for their contributions.


3. Gender Division Budget (2025)




	DESCRIPTION: Budget Items Requested
	BUDGET
	1
	Stipend to Division Newsletter Editor (2 newsletters per year for 2 years)
	$200
	2
	Cash Award to the Division’s Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner
	$150
	3
	Plaque for Student paper honorable mention 
	$50
	4
	Cash Award-$50 & Plaque-$25 to the Outstanding Scholarship Award Winner and Plaque-$25 to the Outstanding Scholarship Award Honorable Mention 
	$100
	5
	Division-Sponsored Reception at the Annual Meeting
	$50
	6
	Social Media Coordinator 
	$50
	

	Total Budget Requested
	$600
	







4. Call for New Newsletter Editors: Our fabulous current newsletter editor Isabel Geisler has earned her PhD degree and has graduated so an announcement was made during the meeting to seek a new newsletter editor for our Gender Newsletter. Raphia Mallick, a current division member offered to serve as the incoming Newsletter editor for our newsletters. 


5. Division Session Ideas – Conference Theme: Toward a Sociology of Violence 
* Can organize up to 10 total sessions: 3 Division-Sponsored Sessions (1 thematic); 7 Co-Sponsored
* Sessions Types of Sessions: Regular Paper Sessions, Tables in the Round, Critical Dialogue 


Session ideas generated from the discussion:
* Sexual harassment experienced by young faculty on campuses and Title IX policy compliance (Amani Awwad)
   * Street and sexual harassment in public spaces: Global (Raphia Mallick)
   * AI and Gender/ Surveillance and Gender: Global Implications– capturing race in AI, Black women’s experiences, how women are surveilled, or how surveillance is gendered (Raquel Delerme)
   * Increased level of technology-assisted violence/ revenge porn- different terminology- connecting to AI (Sarah Jane Brubaker)
   * Session on feminist perspectives on life course, aging, and how structural racism, sexism, ageism, and austerity measures affect employment trajectories intersectionally (Asmita Aasaavri)
   * how structural violence shapes and perpetuates intimate partner violence and limits women's mobility (Asmita)
   * Reproductive Justice and Gender: War/ Violence- for example, Gaza, Sudan, Congo genocide (Lauren suggested, Pallavi and Raphia)
   * Pallavi/ Meghna will connect with the members listed above once the 2025 themes are announced to make sure we can finalize a few sentences for the division meeting at the conference. 


6. Reminders to Submit Nominations for the 2025 SSSP General Elections were made during the meeting. 
   * Nominations for the 2025 SSSP General Election positions are due no later than 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Saturday, June 15, 2024. https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/2178  


7. Call for Interest: Gender Division Chair and Vice Chair effective August 2025:
   * Pallavi and Meghna invited members to think about considering running for the Gender Division Chair and Vice-Chair position effective August 2025 (next year). They will provide the support to help with the role, responsibilities, and the transition. 


8. 2024 SSSP Preliminary Agenda:
   * Pallavi and Meghna encouraged members to check out the 2024 Preliminary Program for SSSP Conference in Montreal this August and to attend the reception and networking events created for the members: https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/988/2024_Preliminary_Program/ 


9. Closing Comments




Meeting Adjourned at 12:45 p.m. PT.