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PROPOSALS

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CALL • FOR • PROPOSALS •

Call for Proposals is now open until

October 20th, 2025

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

1. Refusal as Bloom: How acts of saying no—disidentification, disruption,

defiance—create room for joy and growth.

2. Archiving Memory: Exploring community memory, intergenerational narratives, and archival practices that honor jotería lives.

3. Love as Praxis: Investigating how love functions as a political, relational, and spiritual ethic in jotería communities.

4. The Erotics of Refusal: How queer and trans pleasure destabilize colonial,

patriarchal, and capitalist logics.

5. Rooted Rituals: Reclaiming spiritual practices, ancestral knowledge, and

land-based traditions within jotería world-making.

6. Survivance & Resistance: Highlighting how jotería communities resist

disappearance through creative and embodied practice.

7. Kinship as Resistance: Uplifting the significance of chosen family, community caregiving, and collective sustenance.

8. Temporalities: Challenging linear time, embracing cyclical and ancestral

rhythms of healing and transformation.

9. Disability Justice & Jotería Worlds: Intersections of care, access, pleasure, and resistance in disabled queer and trans lives.

10. Healing through Refusal: Practices of self-preservation and community healing that emerge from saying no to harm.

11. Intergenerational Dialogues: Creating cross-generational learning, support, and memory between jotería youth and elders.

12. Music, Art, and Storytelling as Resistance: Celebrating the role of creative expression in sustaining jotería communities.

13. Land, Body, and Memory: Linking land-based identities and environmental justice with queer and trans liberation.

14. Rest, Leisure, and Slowness as Refusal: Challenging grind culture and

productivity through jotería frameworks of pleasure and ease.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We welcome a variety of formats which include but are not limited to:

  • Interactive and Informative Workshops and Tutorials

  • Pop-Up Exhibits

  • Artistic Performances

  • Spoken Word and Poetry

  • Research and Works-in-Progress

  • Art Making

  • Music and Sound Making

  • Roundtables

  • Panel Discussions

  • Poster or Art Session

  • Storytelling Circles/Platicas

  • Film and Media Session

  1. Name of presenter/s

  2. Email of presenter/s

  3. Title of presenter/s

  4. Organization or Institutional Affiliation of presenter/s

  5. Type of Session Format

  6. Presentation Title (15-word maximum)

  7. Abstract (75-word maximum)

  8. A proposal description (400 words maximum).

    • Purpose of presentation. Be sure to draw connections to the conference theme and/or strand.

    • Method(s) for engaging attendees (e.g., small-group discussion, healing circles, written reflection, art session, etc.).

    • Please keep in mind that all sessions will be 90 minutes.

    • Include 3-5 keywords that help describe the main topic of your session.

Presenter/s Information including the following:

The conference proposal can be uploaded as an MS Word (.doc or .docx) or Portable Document File (.pdf), we also highly welcome proposals in video or other formats that cover the information below. Title your file in the following format: Name_Title_SessionType (if your title is long please abbreviate)

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by November 10, 2025. We look forward to engaging in a rich and meaningful exploration of pleasure, power, and liberation within Jotería communities at this conference.