[Chass-gsaos] Fwd: CFP - UCLA QGrad 2026: Queer/Trans Studies Graduate Conference

[Perla Fabelo]

Please circulate this message to your graduate students.  Thanks.
Perla


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From: EDOARDO PELLIGRA <edoardopelligra at g.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Subject: CFP - UCLA QGrad 2026: Queer/Trans Studies Graduate Conference
To: <uclalgbtq at gmail.com>


Hello,


we hope this email finds you well. Our organizing committee would like to
invite your graduate students to this year’s QGrad Conference, which is the
longest running conference in the United States for graduate students
working in queer and trans studies.



QGrad 2026 will convene around the theme “Selvage” and will take place on
October 30, 2026, at UCLA. Abstracts are due April 10, 2026.



We would be grateful if you could circulate our Call for Papers to your
students, and to any departments or programs that may be interested. Please
find attached our flyer, along with links to the CFP and Submission Form.


Thank you very much!

Kind regards,


QGrad 2026 Organizing Committee




Call for Papers

UCLA QGrad 2026: SELVAGE

Queer/Trans Studies Graduate Student Research Conference

Presented by the LGBTQ Studies Program

Keynote: Dr. PJ DiPietro

Conference Date: Friday, October 30, 2026

Abstracts Due: Friday, April 10, 2026

UCLA’s 29th annual QGrad Conference invites graduate students working in
any discipline engaging with queer, trans, and sexuality studies to convene
under its 2026 theme, “Selvage.” The theme of the conference “Selvage,” is
inspired in part by a talk by Vanessa Agard-Jones titled “Selvage/Obsidian”
(2019), where she notes the double meaning of the word “selvage” (from self
+ edge) naming both the outer edge of fabric that keeps it from unraveling
and a zone of altered rock at the edge of a rock mass. “Selvage” can serve
as a lens for thinking about the self as relational, multiple, situated,
and forged through concrete histories of social and material forces that
are specific and interconnected. … While selvage is used to establish a
particular orientation and control the behavior of the fabric, it is
ultimately treated as excess and discarded, because it does not behave like
the rest of the fabric. Geological selvage forms as a result of contact,
pressure, friction, and movement of fluid, transforming the rock’s shape,
grain, texture, or chemical composition. It acts as an archival record of
stress and transformation, demonstrating where forces concentrate and
contact, and how the material responds.

Dwelling in the metaphoric materiality of selvage, we invite submissions
that explore questions of selfhood, edges, margins, and the ethical,
political, intellectual, collective, creative work that emerges in zones of
pressure or strain …



View the full Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines here:
https://tinyurl.com/qgrad2026

Apply here by Friday, April 10, 2026, at 11:59pm PST:
https://forms.gle/KA8bvay7FHK25M2h7



*On campus accommodations will be offered to accepted presenters traveling
to Los Angeles outside the Southern California area.


If you have any questions, please contact us at uclalgbtq at gmail.com
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