Sexual Behaviors, Politics, and Communities Division SSSP Fall 2019 Newsletter I hope this email finds you well and into the rhythm of your Fall Teaching and Research activities. Please note the important announcements below for the Sexual Behaviors, Politics, and Communities (SBPC) Division of the SSSP: CONTENTS: I. Nominations for Division Chair (2020-22) II. Nominations for NEW division position Association Chair (2019-20) III. Nominations for Newsletter Editor (paid position) (2019-20) IV. Graduate Paper Award (2020) V. NEW Published Article Award (2020) VI. List of Division-Sponsored Panels for the 2020 Conference VII. Other Relevant Panels for 2020 I. Nominations for Division Chair (2020-22)   It’s that time again when we will have a changing of the guard in August for leadership of the Division. All members are welcome to run for the position, and you may nominate yourself. The position lasts for three years, starting in Aug. 2020. First year responsibilities overlap with the outgoing chair (me); second year is solo run; third year you’ll overlap with the incoming chair. Send your questions or nominations (including self-nominations) to me by the end of October, and I’ll send you further instructions for the election process. todd.ormsbee@sjsu.edu II. Nominations for NEW division position Association Chair (2019-20) At our August 2019 meeting, the division decided to add an Associate Chair position to the division to take on responsibility for the new publication award that the division decided to add to our roster at the 2018 meeting. The associate chair will co-lead division meetings and will be in charge of the new published article and published book awards (see below). Terms will be one year long, with opportunity to run again. All members of the division are welcome to run for the position, and may nominate themselves. Send your questions or nominations (including self-nominations) to me by the end of October, and I’ll send you further instructions for the election process. todd.ormsbee@sjsu.edu III. Nominations for Newsletter Editor (paid position) (2019-20) The division is in need of a Newsletter Editor. The position has a small stipend; to receive the stipend, the SSSP requires that the Newsletter Editor publish at least two newsletters during the academic year preceding the annual conference. Editor responsibilities include solicitation of articles, announcements, etc.; publishing the newsletter; creating a plain-text version of the newsletter for accessibility. Ideally, the division would like to see a newsletter in December & in May. All members of the division are welcome to run for the position, and may nominate themselves. Send your questions or nominations (including self-nominations) to me by the end of October, and I’ll send you further instructions for the election process. todd.ormsbee@sjsu.edu IV. Graduate Paper Award Nominations & Submissions (2020) The division will again sponsor a Graduate Student Paper Award, and we will be accepting submission in January. At our 2019 division meeting, we decided to remove the requirement that papers be nominated and/or supported by a faculty member, so that this year, graduate students can nominate their own papers for the award. Please watch SSSP announcements in the coming months for details and instructions. V. NEW Published Scholarship Awards (2020) At our division meeting in 2018, we decided to explore starting a published scholarship award for peer reviewed books and articles. At our 2019 meeting, we decided to give an award for published articles relevant to the division during even years; and for a published book during odd years. Our inaugural award begin given at our 2020 Conference, and the award will be hopefully directed by our incoming Associate Division Chair. Any peer-reviewed article relevant to the Sexual Behaviors, Politics, and Communities Division, published in 2018 or 2019 will be eligible for the award. Consider nominating your publications for the award! Watch announcements later this fall from the division and from SSSP for more information. VI. List of Division-Sponsored Panels for the 2020 Conference We have again a full slate of panels for the 2020 Conference in San Francisco. We had so many that one of our panels got spun off and is now being sponsored by the new Gender Division in order to make room for as many panels as possible (see below). Please look at these panels and consider submitted your ongoing research and scholarship to present. Official announcements will be coming from SSSP later this fall, so keep your eye out for that. If you notice any errors, or if there’s been a change in your availability for presiding or convening a panel, please let me know ASAP so I can let Michele Koontz know in the SSSP office. I’m really looking forward to next year’s conference. Sole-Sponsored by Sexual Behaviors, Politics, and Communities Division 1. Sexuality on the Edge [Critical Dialogue]     organizer: Kathleen A. Asbury, CC of Philadelphia (kasbury@ccp.edu) 2. Subversive and Embodied Sexualities [Traditional]     organizer: Chris Wakefield, UNLV (wakefc1@unlv.nevada.edu) 3. Transnational Sexualities & Global Migration: Looking to the Future [Traditional]     organizer: Eric Victory (etv5@zips.uakron.edu) Co-Sponsored by SBPC and other Division(s): 1. Gender, Sexuality, and the Law [Traditional]     co-sponsor: Law and Society     organizer: Lloyd Klein (lklein@lagcc.cuny.edu) 2. Sex Work and Justice [Critical Dialogue]     co-sponsor: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency     organizer: Chris Wakefield, UNLV (wakefc1@unlv.nevada.edu) 3. Reproductive Justice: Policy and Practice in 2020 [Traditional]     co-sponsors: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course & Gender     organizer: Jacqueline Daugherty, Miami of OH (daughejd@miamioh.edu) 4. Theories of Sexual Liberation, Utopia, and Hope [Traditional]     co-sponsor: Social Problems Theory     organizer: J. Todd Ormsbee (todd.ormsbee@sjsu.edu) 5. Sexuality and Substance Use in Illegal and Legal Activities [traditional]     co-sponsor: Drinking and Drugs     co-organizers: Eric Victory (etv5@zips.uakron.edu)             Suzan Walters (suzanmwalters@gmail.com) 6.  Aging in Queer Communities — Vision for a Different Future [traditional]     co-sponsor: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course     co-organizers: Jonathan Jimenez (jimenj9@unlv.nevada.edu)             Harry Barbee (hbarbee@fsu.edu) 7. Queer Communities, Space, and Identities [traditional]     co-sponsor: Community Research and Development     organizer: Jason Orne (Drexel University) VII. Other Relevant Panel for 2020 At our meeting of chairs where we finalized the panel slate together, it became clear that some divisions needed assistance to get their panels on the schedule. Because SBPC division has a robust and vibrant slate, I decided at that meeting to let Gender take over one of our panels so that the Drinking & Drugs division would be able to have a full slate of panels as well. This kind of collegial cooperation and flexibility is one of the things I most appreciate about SSSP. The following panel is relevant to SBPC division, but is not sponsored by us, and is being convened by one of our members. So if you have a paper relevant to the topic, please consider submitting to it. Sexual & Interpersonal Violence: Within and Beyond #MeToo [Traditional]     co-sponsors: Sport, Leisure, and the Body & Gender     Organizer: Jacqueline Daugherty, Miami University of Ohio Thanks for your research, teaching, and activist work in the areas of sexuality. We continue to be an active and important part of SSSP and our work continues to be relevant as it intersections with multiple other divisions, identities, inequalities, and issues of justice and freedom. Please consider running for office in our division and submitting a paper for any of our panels. Let me know if you have any questions or comments that I can take care of in my final year as your Division Chair.