SSSP Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division Annual Meeting
Thursday, May 15th, 2025, 1:00 - 2:00 pm (PST), Zoom
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Present: Rafia Mallick, alithia zamantakis, Meghna Bhat, Natalie Dickson, Cary Costello, EttaMathews, Ellen Benoit, Kat Fuller, Wendy Simonds, Hannah Regan, Nancy López, Gunercindo Espinoza, Jennifer Carpenter, Ami Frost, jonzelle bell, Ying-Chao Kao, Pallavi Banerjee, Lloyd Klein
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Meeting Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions [10]
   1. Tough year - meeting is perhaps more inaccessible than ever
2. Award Announcements [10]
   1. Graduate Student Paper Awards: Olivia Hu (Gender) “What’s Behind the ‘Oxford Study?’ Relationship-Based Stigma and the Symbolic Significant of Eastern Asian Women/White Man Unions” and Jinsun Tang (Sexuality) “Localization of Sex Testing: Transnational Knowledge Production of Sex”
   2. Outstanding Scholarship: Eman Abdelhadi and Anna Fox (Gender) “Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct their Gender Ideologies” and Ying-Chao Kao (Sexuality) “The Coloniality of Queer Theory: The Effects of Homonormativity on Transnational Taiwan’s Path to Equality”
   3. Thank you to our reviewers!
3. New Division Leadership [5]
   1. Hannah Regan will be taking over as one co-chair
   2. There is an ongoing election for a second co-chair - vote by 5/30! (You should have received emails)
   3. We greatly miss Brett Cumberbatch, who we lost a few months ago, and his contributions to our division. Moment of silence for Brett. 
   4. Pallavi Banerjee will also be stepping down from auxiliary advisorship - thank you Pallavi!
   5. Thank you to outgoing chairs Meghna and alithia!
4. Division Budget for 2025-2026 [5]
   1. $600 approved budget
5. Session Suggestions for 2026 [15]
   1. Gender and Violence (Lloyd Klein) (co-sponsor with crime - Rafia is incoming chair)
   2. Policing of binary sex/gender (Cary Costello)
   3. Disinformation within digital spaces and gender (Kat Fuller)
   4. Gender, Sexualities, and Disabilities (Ying-Chao Kao)
      1. Autism and LGBTQ+ (Etta Mathews)
   5. US Imperialism and Gendered Orientalism (Pallavi Banerjee)
   6. Immigrant women and experiences of racism and discrimination in the US (Rafia Mallick)
   7. Mothering/Caregiving during the rise of facism (Pallavi Banerjee)
   8. Facism and masculinity (Kat Fuller)
   9. Anti-Gender Ideology and Global LGBTQ+ Resistance (Ying-Chao Kao)
   10. Gendered Spaces (Rafia Mallick)
   11. The effects of abortion bans (Jennifer Carpenter)
   12. Medicalization and Institutionalization of Trans lives (Etta Mathews)
   13. Mental Health and Gender (Kat Fuller)
6. Questions? [10]
   1. “South Asian Immigrant Experiences in the US” session needs another paper - reach out to Rafia if you are interested - rmallick1@gsu.edu