Toward a New Trajectory

Toward a New Trajectory

March 8, 2011
Mosher Alumni House

On March 8, 2011 the New Sexualities RFG hosted a Sexuality Studies Brainstorming Session titled, “Rethinking the Funding and Form of Sexuality Studies.” This full-day event was held at the Mosher Alumni House. Paul Amar, Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack Halberstam, Mireille Miller-Young, Dean Spade and Carly Thomsen considered various issues relating to 21st-century sexuality studies research, including lobbying funding agencies and foundations to re-fund, re-think and re-invest in critical sexuality studies, transcending (but of course not ignoring) the military-access/heath-pathology/marriage-equality frameworks. Through this brainstorming session, we began to build a strategic battle plan for creating new buzzwords and agenda items for foundations, funders, international agencies, and research institutes, mapping productive and provocative nodes for collaboration.