*apologies for cross-posting* Subject: CfP: 4S open panel on Menstruation as Technology, Technologies of Menstruation Dear all, We invite you to submit an abstract to the 2021 4S conference on Good Relations: Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds open panel 124. Menstruation as Technology, Technologies of Menstruation (full description below). The conference will be held in Toronto and worldwide online 6-9 October 2021. Deadline for abstracts is March 8, 2021. Links below. We look forward to thinking with you. Best, Monika Sengul-Jones and Amanda Menking, co-panel organizers. 124. Menstruation as Technology, Technologies of Menstruation Hormonal bodies have always been technologies of socio-technical relations.

From the practices of spatial segregation due to menstruation (Spain, 1993) to the physical effects of ovulation and bleeding, to the varied practice of tracking of menstruation and ovulation (Delaney, Lupton, Toth, 1988, p. 274), scholars in feminist technoscience have documented menstruation as propelling and troubling gendered social formations.Simultaneously, social, political, and technical designs of (bio)technologies have influenced and co-constructed the meanings and embodied experiences of menstruation. Entrepreneurs have introduced products and services designed to meet the perceived needs of menstruators and appeal to neoliberal notions of ‘health and wellbeing’ (e.g., period panties, organic tampon subscriptions). Pharmaceutical companies, chemical products, and medical practitioners have developed, marketed, and prescribed products which manage, alter and disrupt endocrine cycles, troubling natural conceptions of menstruation. Social technologies like Instagram and TikTok have provided menstrual activists spaces to destigmatize menses, work to end period poverty (being unable to afford products to manage menstrual bleeding), and challenge assumptions and discursive constructions about difference and menstruation (Hasson, 2016). Ruha Benjamin’s work on race after technology suggests interdependency is always happening: “Our lived realit[ies] and infrastructural designs connect us in seen and unseen ways” (2019, p. 194). This panel takes up the premise of interdependency in considering technologies of menstruation and their effects. As precariously situated critical scholars, we invite scholars committed to feminist studies of technoscience and embodiment to inclusively and generatively engage in questions of the co-shaping of knowledge about menstruation with us.

Keywords: menstruation, embodiment, interdependency, feminist technoscience, endocrine disruption Links: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/ https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/ https://www.4sonline.org/124-menstruation-as-technology-technologies-of-mens... On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:17 PM <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

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1. Funding opportunity: Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund (Zimmer, Michael)

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Dear AoIR:

Colleagues affiliated with the Technology Coalition ( https://www.technologycoalition.org) and End Violence Against Children ( https://www.end-violence.org) have asked me to share this call for proposals to fund research in this area with the AoIR community. More details are available at https://www.end-violence.org/tech-coalition-safe-online-research-fund-launch... .

~Michael

** Funding opportunity to tackle online child sexual exploitation & abuse: Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund

End Violence and the Technology Coalition have launched the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund to expand knowledge of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) and to develop actionable insights for preventing it.

From now until 11 April 2021, the Request for Proposals is open, seeking innovative research into this topic with priority given to research that can inform the technology industry?s approach to combating online CSEA. Winning proposals will be awarded grants from $20,000 to $250,000. Learn more and apply here: http://bit.ly/TC_SafeOnline_ResearchFund.

This collaboration is part of Technology Coalition?s?Project Protect, which seeks to prevent and eradicate online CSEA through technology innovation, collective action, research, knowledge sharing, and increased accountability. This fund is an essential part of that process, supporting actionable research that will lead to real, lasting change for children?s digital safety.?

Please share with your networks!

-- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Marquette University michael.zimmer@marquette.edu www.michaelzimmer.org @michaelzimmer

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