Reading group reflections

Here is an open thread for people wanting to continue or join the discussion from this week’s Queer Thinking group. Our readings were: Annamarie Jagose “Feminism’s Queer Theory,” Feminism and Psychology 19.2 (2009): 157-74. Annamarie Jagose “Couterfeit Pleasures: Fake Orgasm and Queer Agency,” Textual Practice 24.3 (2010): 517-39. Sara Ahmed “Sexual Orientations” in Queer Phenomenology, [...]

Queer Thinking preparations

Plans are well underway for this year’s Queer Thinking events. As was the case last year, the Sexuality and Space Group at Sydney is teaming up with New Mardi Gras to bring a special guest speaker for the weekend. This year it is the brilliant Professor Sara Ahmed. Sara is a regular visitor to the [...]

Surveillance and Everyday Life

Sydney University’s Surveillance and Everyday Life project is running a two day conference next month, and the program (pdf) has just been announced. Looks like I’m speaking on day two. The paper is something I’m working on for a collection on ‘identity technologies’ edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak. This is one of a [...]

Promotions training

Yesterday I went to an induction session for staff serving on promotion committees this year. The speaker from the HR Equal Opportunity Unit showed another interesting set of figures. Based on staff numbers in 2010: Women comprise 46% of all academic staff at the university. Women make up 52% of staff at Levels A, B [...]

Technologies of gender and labour

One of my big projects for the year comes to fruition next week. The Technologies of Gender and Labour roundtable I’ve been organising with Ann Deslandes is funded by the Academy of the Humanities International Science Linkages scheme. It’s an amazing opportunity to bring together some big names from here and overseas to talk about [...]

Sexuality and space

Over the past few months Kane Race and I have started a working group in our department called “Sexuality and Space”. The idea is to develop an archive and a network of resources, ideas and events about the politics of urban space in Sydney, particularly as this relates to gender and sexuality. The group builds [...]

How do you buy a wedding ring?

The next bit of wedding planning is to buy the rings, since we both agree we’d like to have one. It was different with the engagement. I proposed to William so I didn’t expect a ring. I am also not much of a jewelry person. But wow, try explaining that to someone sometime, that you [...]

International Women’s Day

This afternoon the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney held a special event for International Women’s Day. I was asked to present some of my research from the Working From Home study. Here is a copy of the text from my talk, and a powerpoint presentation for those interested in some [...]

Women in research

A new report shows that women’s progress in science has stalled over the past 15 years. While this won’t sound like news to many, I was shocked to read the statistic on how many women are Federation Fellows (8.5%). When you add that to other recent news stories, particularly with regard to the ongoing pay [...]

Remembering Eve

In honour of our Sedgwick event today, here’s a link to an old essay I wrote a few years ago when I was asked to review Touching Feeling. It’s called “How to Avoid Being Paranoid” and it’s this general directive and its ongoing relevance for those working in the corporate academy that will form the [...]

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