Dear friends,
Please forward the following information regarding Sextures e-journal
on to your colleagues, friends, and students. They are currently
seeking submissions on a range of topics related to sexuality. I am
pleased to say that I am a member of the journal's advisory board.
The editor is a former editor of borderlands e-journal and a member
of that journal's advisory board. While its focus tends to be on
issues around sexuality in central and eastern Europe it does have a
broader focus on sexuality in general, including theoretical topics.
My apologies for any cross-posting.
Best wishes
David
http://www.sextures.net/
ABOUT SEXTURES VIRTUAL FORUM AND E-JOURNAL
SEXTURES is a joint initiative of a group of intellectuals, writers,
critics, and activists scattered throughout the world, who have a
passionate interest in the theory and practice of sexuality in the
Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe. Some of us work in academia,
while others work as freelance researchers, critics, curators,
artists, journalists, commentators, and activists. Most of us,
whether we live in the never ending transitional nightmare that many
parts of the Balkans and Eastern Europe have turned into, or carve
out an uncertain existence as intellectual, economic and cultural
migrants working on the margins of the globalized information economy/
ies of the developed world, feel close to each other in our
experience of ongoing social, economic, academic and cultural
precarity. For some of us our sexualities add another intense
emotional layer of precarity that deeply affects how we see and know
the world.
SEXTURES is about our need to give theoretical and practical
expressions to the everyday precariousness of our existence and to
our unique epistemologies that derive from it. SEXTURES is also a
long-term project dedicated to challenging the still prevalent
snobbery that goes with the printed academic text, and to breaking
barriers, prejudices (whether sexual, epistemological or
disciplinary), and new theoretical and disciplinary grounds.
Although we primarily focus on the Balkans, Central and Eastern
Europe, we hope to attract readers and writers from around the world,
since sexuality as a complex set of discourses and practices of
biopower has been put to very similar uses throughout the globe. The
struggle for sexual democracy and citizenship rights for members of
oppressed sexual minorities is also global. Linking, networking and
sharing insights, analyses, and modes of resistance is crucial both
to advancing local and global struggles for equality for members of
various marginalized sexualities, advancing women's reproductive
rights, and the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, to name only a
few major struggles here. As Amartya Sen notes, "exclusions of
different kind [or of the same kind but in various regions] may link
with each other, and progress in inclusion in one field may help
advance inclusion in others." These connections call for more
extensive investigations in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe,
the instigation of which is one of the main aims of SEXTURES.
The founder and publisher of SEXTURES is Alexander Lambevski, but its
origins lie in the collective need of the intellectual, social and
sexual precariat of the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe,
particularly in the postsocialist countries of the Balkans, to create
an open, safe and ongoing space exclusively dedicated to exploring
issues of sexuality across a range of disciplines in the arts,
humanities and social sciences.
SEXTURES is a global project. It is edited in Australia and Europe,
and web-published on its website hosted on a server in the United
States.
