Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division (SBPC)
Annual Business Meeting
Saturday, August 10, 2024
10:30am-12:10pm, Ballroom West
Le Centre Sheraton Montréal Hotel 


AGENDA

* Sign-in and introductions
o Brett Cumberbatch, alithia zamantakis, Terrell Winder (UC-Santa Barbara), Hannah Regan (Flora Stone Mather Center), Lloyd Klein (LaGuardia community college), Ellen Benoit (NJ community research institute), Jacqueline Dougherty (Miami University)
* Welcome from incoming Division Chair alithia zamantakis & Associate Chair Brett Lesley Cumberbatch 
* Recognition of our 2024 award recipients
	Outstanding Article Award co-winners: 
Minwoo Jung, Queer Theory Impossible, published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
	AND
Terrell Winder, The Discursive Work of “Bottom-Shaming”: Sexual Positioning Discourse in the Construction of Black Masculinity, published in Gender & Society 
Note: The Division did not award an outstanding Graduate Student Paper award due to a lack of submissions. Please encourage your graduate students and colleagues to submit their work (self-nominations are also welcome)!
* Brainstorming Session Topics for 2025 Program in Chicago (August 8-10)
	Theme: “Insurgent Sociology in a Time of Crises”
o The new DEI laws and their impact on our students – Jacqueline Daugherty and Hannah R. Reagan
* Access to reproductive care
* LGBTQ students/athletes
* K-12 
o Decline in public health support for STI prevention
* Different streams for STI vs. HIV funding
* Gender aspect around who has access to STI prevention
* To whom are we marketing biomedical interventions
* Tensions between funding for DoxyPEP and potential decrease in funding for MPOWERMENT programs and education and self-efficacy
o Community based sexual and reproductive care programming – Jason Dotson & Ellen Benoit
o Repro Justice 
o Round Table
* Can have a grad student organize with mentorship from someone
* Can co-sponsor with crime & justice 
* Other Business/Open Forum 
o Discussion on combining with gender and renaming to Gender & Sexualities
* Discomfort with removing politics & communities 
* Feeling that sexualities only encompasses identities, which loses a lot to cut the name to sexualities 
* Put gender after sexualities
* Tone deaf to cut politics & communities 
* Ensure that name represents pursuit of social justice
* Great with merging but not renaming 
o Have annual Zoom meeting 
* Can be good way to introduce more undergraduate students to the division/SSSP
* March/April
* Lloyd can chair graduate student paper award 
o Hannah Reagan can help 
* Terrell can help with outstanding book award
* SBPC Dinner/Reception Next Year 
o Could collaborate with ASA Sexualities


* Thank You